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Category: Power Apps

Understanding Record Source Type setting in Basic Forms in Power Portal

Record Source Type setting is used to define how the information is passed to the form: There are 3 types of record source type can be used. Query String – This setting is default when you are creating a table form or a basic form in power portals Studio. When the page that contains the form is…
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Add custom button in power portal list and open external site on click

You can open external URL by specifying URL option in grid configuration in a List in power portal. Go to Portal Management Model driven app and navigate to options, click on create. It will add a create section and in the target type choose URL. Mention the target URL in the box such as “https://logyscal.com/”.…
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Download action in Power Portal Entity List configuration

In Power Portal Table List you can configure Download action option so that when you click the Download button the data from the list will be automatically downloaded in the system. For this open Portal Management Model Driven app and navigate to Lists. Select the List for which you want to enable and in the…
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Use regular expression in Power Portal form field

Regular expression in JavaScript is very powerful way to validate a specific format of a field such as Email, Phone number etc. In Power Portal we can use regular expression to validate form fields without writing code just using configuration. Open the Basic form and go to Form Metadata. Add new form metadata of type…
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Call Power Automate using JavaScript from Dynamics 365 Forms

In this post I will explain about the steps to call Power Automate from Dynamics 365 JavaScript. Let us take a scenario, I want to send a PDF with Account information when an account is created in the system using JavaScript. For this follow below steps: Step:1 – Configure Power Automate Open Power Apps solution…
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Text counter in Canvas Apps Power Apps

Some requirement needs to have a counter so that when we type text inside a text input the label will show the maximum character or how many character left to enter. For this requirement take one label to display counter and one text input having multiline text mode. Select the label and in the Text…
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Check field value numeric in Power Apps canvas apps

Sometimes we need to validate fields to match with a numeric only like Ages, No. of days etc. So for this scenarios we need to use some PowerFX to validate form fields. Let us see how we can achieve this. Take 3 controls on the canvas app. one Text Input and two text labels. One…
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Working with Day, Month, Year, Hour, Minute, Second, and Weekday functions in Power App

We can use PowerFX to use the day, month, year, hour, minute, second and weekday concepts in our Power Apps. Lets see in details. Day PowerFX Day PowerFX returns the day component of the current time and date. Syntax : Day(Now()). This will give you the current date part. If the date is 12/21/2021 then…
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How to overwrite an environment with a copy of another environment

For business needs we can overwrite an existing environment. Follow the steps below to copy or overwrite existing environment. Step : 1 – Open Power Platform Admin Center and Select Existing Environment Open the power platform admin center. You can direct click the link to open – https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments now select the environment and click Copy.…
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Cascading dropdown list in Power apps connecting to SharePoint

Cascading dropdown list is very common in programming and software world. In Power apps also we can use this concept o achieve the cascading logic. Lets take a scenario: We have a SharePoint List to store Country, State and City. All information will be displayed in Power apps as dropdowns. When someone select Country the…
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Retrieve more than 5000 records from dataverse or dynamics 365 in Power automate using fetchxml paging

In this post I will explain about paging concept using FetchXML with Power Automate to retrieve records from Dataverse or Dynamics 365 CE/CRM. Watch the below video for practical knowledge. Or you can scroll down to read the article. Step 1 – Create a Flow and add required variables Create a new Instant flow and…
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65+ Power Apps interview Questions and answers

Here in this post I have compiled 65+ interview questions and answers for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents and many more on Power Platform. Check out the complete questions here: Explain about the Power platform echo-system? What are PowerApps and why do we use it? What is the difference between a…
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Ads and Ads Placement in Power Portal – Configurations and Demo (no code)

In this post I will explain about Ads and Ads Placement concepts in power portals. As because power portals are public facing websites we can run Ads on power portal web pages of our choice. We can also configure display styles, positions, live from date and expire date of Ads. Lets us see how we…
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Update Dynamics 365 records in bulk from Canvas Apps Power Apps using with, ForAll and patch PowerFX function

PowerFX is a most Powerful way to use complex business logics in Canvas Apps Power Apps. When we combine multiple functions then the PowerFX gets more power. In this blog I will explain how we can combine 3 most powerful PowerFX to do complex tasks. Business Scenario: Lets Say I want to have a Button…
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Call Custom Action from JavaScript and Run Plugin for custom message in Dynamics 365 or Power Apps

In this post I will tell you how to call custom Action from JavaScript Web Resource and Pass Input Parameters to Custom Action from JavaScript, Also we will see how to call a plugin under same custom action. Watch the video below to learn more practical way otherwise scroll down to read the article. Step:…
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Configure Auto-Numbering in Power Apps/Dynamics 365 without code

In this blog we will see how we can configure auto numbering concept in Power Apps/ Dynamics 365 without writing a single line of code. Login to make.powerapps.com and open the solution with which you are working. Add the table component and inside the table component. Add a new field and select data type as…
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How to implement Sorting and Searching in Gallery in Canvas Apps Power Apps in

In this post we will see how we can implement sorting feature in a gallery control connected to a data source for example dataverse. The below screenshot shows the gallery which is connected to Account Table. Here I want to implement Sorting feature. At the top right corner we have a sorting icon also a…
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Solution History in Power Apps or Dynamics 365

In Power Apps we can view solution history to understand how many times the current solution exported, Imported and unInstalled. To view Solution history open Power Apps Solution. and In The solution click on History. Hope this helps.

How to add required components to a power apps solution

When we work in Power Apps Solutions we add Table components. Add after that we ass Sub-Components of the Table but as sometimes we add relationships and some web resources for the table and when we distribute the solution to other environment then if the target environment do not have required components the import error…
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Add Spacers in Modern Form Designer in Power Apps

In Power Apps Modern Form designer now we can add spacer component to add some space between one field to another field. This option was long awaited option now we can use it. This will give another reason why we will not use Classic Solution editings. But remember the spacer component does not have any…
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Fallback Form in Power Apps or Dynamics 365 Model driven apps/ Dataverse

Forms are excellent way to communicate with data in Microsoft Dataverse or Power Apps. We can enable security roles for Table Forms so that user with a specific security role can only access to the form. Now the question is what about the user having a different security role and none of the Entity form…
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Manage Search index for Dataverse Search in Power Apps

Dataverse Search is now the global search for all power apps. If you have not enabled enable it now. Follow my blog here to know how to enable Dataverse search. After it is enabled we can manage search index for Dataverse search. Open your Power Apps Solution and Click on Overview section here you can…
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Create your custom theme for your power portal with easy steps

Power Portal is a public facing web portal that we can configure as a power apps. We can also define the styling of the power portal pages using CSS. But there is a theme concept that we can configure without writing code to give a makeover style. You can also use Preset Themes if you…
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Use solution checker to check solution errors in power apps

We are working with solutions many times in our Power Apps. But we hardly know about the errors that exist in solutions. We have a Solution Checker to check if the solution has some issues. Open Power Apps maker site and open Solution and click on overview. You will see Solution Checker and click on…
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Use Microsoft App Source to install apps into your power apps environment

Microsoft App Source is the largest app market place which we can leverage to find Free and Premium Apps for our environment. Let us see how you can navigate to App Source and Install Apps. Follow the steps below. Login your power apps environment and click on Solutions section. Click on Open App Source. Now…
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