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Category: Power Apps

Filter Gallery by Dropdown list in Canvas Apps Power Apps

In this blog we will see how we can filter gallery control by connecting Dataverse/ Dynamics 365 tables using Dropdown list control. Also we will see how we can connect the dropdown with Choice field of Dataverse table. Lets start. Step:1 – Create a Canvas App Add Gallery, Dropdown, Connect Table Login to office.com and…
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How to create Transparent objects on canvas apps

Canvas app provides a lot of feature by which we can design elegant application for our business. One of the application UI design is to create some semi -transparent objects like circles, rectangles etc. on screen of canvas app. So let us see how we can design this. Step 1 – Open canvas app and…
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Set focus on a control of a canvas app screen when the screen loads

This is a very common requirement of customers and its quite obvious that the system should automatically focus on first control so that without clicking on the control we can start typing the value directly. Microsoft Power Apps Canvas provides a PowerFX by using which we can achieve this functionality. Let us see how we…
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Know about Power Platform Tools | Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio 2019

In this blog we will see how we can use Power Platform Toolkit for our projects in Visual Studio 2019. Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio supports the rapid creation, debugging, and deployment of plug-ins and other customizations. Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio is similar in appearance and function to the Developer Toolkit we were…
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How to clear PL-900 with Free of Cost

Certification fives more credibility to your Resume and also will give more chance in getting jobs of your choice in market. But sometimes its difficult to identify which certification is suitable for you. As because the Certification enrollment are cost associated so you need to understand which certification is Best. let me tell you the…
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[Solved] Clear lookup field in Dataverse from Power Automate.

You can use below expression to clear lookup field. use null expression in Power Automate. In the power automate use null function in the update step. Now if you run the flow the account lookup gets cleared. Hope this helps.

How to clear lookup field in Dataverse/ Dynamics 365 using canvas app

Here we will see how we can make lookup field blank using Canvas App. I have taken a gallery to display Contacts and displaying the First name, last name and Account. here I have taken a button in every row and trying to make the Account field blank for the selected row from the gallery.…
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How to use Components in Canvas Apps Power Apps – Re-usable components

Components are reusable building blocks for canvas apps so that app makers can create custom controls to use inside an app, or across apps using a component library. Components can use advanced features such as custom properties and enable complex capabilities. This article introduces component concepts and some examples. Read the Microsoft article here. Watch…
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Working with Plug-ins for entities with N:N relationship in DataVerse/Dynamics 365

We all know that (many-to-many) N:N relationship creates an Intersect table. When we add related record for an entity then the Event that is triggered is Associate. For N:N we cannot handle using Create or Update Message. This is specific to N:N relationship. So Here I am presenting how we can handle the plugin code…
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Lookup Field update in Edit Form, Display Form, Gallery using Canvas Apps

When we are working with Canvas Apps we Create, Updated, Retrieve and Delete records for Dataverse or Dynamics 365 tables using Gallery, Forms and other UI components of Canvas Apps. Working with simple Data Type fields is ok but when it is a matter of Look Up Field its not straight forward so we need…
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Use IDEAS in Power Apps to query data using a natural query language (NQL) with machine learning capability

Microsoft Power Apps Canvas App now supports IDEAS by using which we can use a general natural query language to fetch data from tables such as instead of adding a Data Source we can directly use ideas which pull data. Let us see how we can use IDEAS in Canvas Apps. Login to Power Apps…
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Working with HTML Text Controls inside Power Apps in Canvas Apps

Placing text controls to display or input texts is ok. But when you are ready to use HTML Text control then you have more power to use HTML tags with the text as per your choice. Let us see how we can add this HTML Text in Canvas Apps. Login to Power Apps and create…
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Capture Image using Camera control, Save the image in SharePoint and Send email with attachment in Canvas APP with Power Automate

Using canvas apps we create portable business applications for users. Now in this post I will explain how we can create a canvas app with camera control and on clicking save button how we can call power automate to save the camera captured image in SharePoint and Send an email with the picture as attachment.…
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Do not forget to Add Comments or Notes in Every Action Step in Power Automate or Flow

As a best practice we add comments to our code while developing so that any other user or developer can understand what our code snippet is all about. To have this commenting and note functionality Microsoft Power Automate has a Add Note feature that developers and power users can use for a better visibility and…
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Open Custom page from Model driven app using new command editing in Power apps

This is really exciting that now we can edit command bar using model driven app modern designer which is in public preview. So I cant wait to tell you how we can use that feature. In this post I will tell you how you can create a CUSTOM PAGE in Model driven app to converge…
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Now you can analyze the Performance of Model driven apps in Power apps

Performance is the key in enterprise applications. Microsoft has introduced Performance analyzer in Power Apps. You can navigate to your Power apps and check the Performance which is in preview currently at the time of blog writing. When you click the Performance option you can see the list of performance related facts like Warnings and…
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Extract Tabular Data from PDF using AI Builder Form Processing Power Apps | Extract Field, Tabular Data

AI Builder plays an important role to have AI enables processes in our real business scenarios. In this post I will explain the steps how we can extract field information and also tabular data from PDF forms into power apps using AI Builder Form Processing Model. watch the video or scroll to read the complete…
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How to Send Email with Attachments using Gmail Connector from Canvas Apps | Power Apps

Canvas Apps Power Apps is a powerful no-code less-code platform to develop applications for enterprises targeting mobile and TAB devices. The Power FX is used as a less-code to make the Canvas App more dynamics. If you want to read and watch all canvas app related videos you can check out my YouTube channel here.…
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How to create Polymorphic or multi-entity lookup field in Microsoft DataVerse and Dynamics 365

Previously Lookup fields are only connected to one entity and Customer data type points to either Contact or Account entity but there was no provision to create custom polymorphic lookup. Now Microsoft introduced polymorphic lookup for custom fields. Using user Interface we cannot create this type of field we have to use code or XRMToolBox…
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Modern App Designer for Model-driven Apps very efficient to design (bye bye classic designer)

Model driven apps are game changers in Power Apps revolution. But still the app designer was not very robust so Microsoft has releases new App designer. Now lets see how we can leverage the New Modern app designer to create model driven apps in no-code fashion. Login to Power Apps and select +Create. Choose Model-driven…
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My Top Best features from 2021 Wave 2 releases of Microsoft Power Platform

Really excited to tell you a lot of features has been added in this Wave 2 release of 2021 in Microsoft Power Platform. Sometimes people have no much time go through all the features so I have compiled all best features of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent & power BI and AI Builder…
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Get Selected item texts from a multi select choice field | choices in power automate

In Microsoft DataVerse we can use Choices data type to allow multiple selections for a specific field for example below I have a Choices field called as Degree where you can select multiple items. Now if you will read the Degree values it will give you the under lying values so to get the selected…
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Get text or name value of lookup field in power automate in power apps

In Power automate sometimes we need to pick the Name Text of the lookup field. When we assign directly it will give you the GUID so we have to do some tweaks. If you get the output body you can see for every look up control we have five tags in the output. For example…
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Get Text value of a Boolean field in power automate

I have written a post to get Choice or optionset text in Power automate if you have not read check now. in the below link to understand more. in the same process if you want to get the text value of a Boolean field use the below formatted syntax in your power automate or power…
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