Why? We tend to put the full mailto-link with a subject and optional body parameter completely in the first part of the Launch function in PowerApps. However in PowerApps it will replace spaces in your email with plus signs 😫. What? This is a small post on how to make sure a mailto-link will work … Continue reading PowerApps: mailto link in Launch
PowerApps: rendering images from SharePoint Online in Rich Text Column
Why? By default a PowerApp will not render images for a Multiple lines of text column if the image is stored in SharePoint Online 🤔 What? This post will give you a pretty straight forward option on how you can get this to work. How? So there is a SharePoint list (ListHTML) where we will … Continue reading PowerApps: rendering images from SharePoint Online in Rich Text Column
PowerApps: Multi value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
Why? The SharePoint lookup column that allows multiple values to be selected. Nice idea from a SharePoint point of view, but when used in a PowerApps datacard that you want to have default values from a combobox control this may be tricky What? An explanation of how you can get multi value lookups from SharePoint … Continue reading PowerApps: Multi value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
PowerApps: Single value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
Why? Sometimes you just want to use the lookup columns that SharePoint can provide in a PowerApp that has multiple screens. I would not recommend it, in by far the most cases it is not even necessary but...... for those few times you need to make it happen, let me show you 💡 What? An … Continue reading PowerApps: Single value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
PowerApps: Azure Active Directory Groups
Why? Managing users and groups: an IT thing, an HR thing, a business ownership thing 🤔. With Azure Active Directory this is as flexible as you would like it to be, so once your organization has finally come to an agreement on who will manage which users in which groups âž¡ then how can PowerApps … Continue reading PowerApps: Azure Active Directory Groups
PowerApps Gallery: like a Navigation Ribbon
Why? The Gallery Control can be used in different ways but one of the first things I realized was a need for consistent navigation between different screens. Wanting the most efficient, effective and engaging way to realize this (simpler minds would call me lazy 🤫), I tried to combine a single source of truth for … Continue reading PowerApps Gallery: like a Navigation Ribbon
PowerApps Gallery: the empowering swiss army knife!
Why? The PowerApps Gallery must be one of the most versatile controls, I have been using so far so therefor it derserves a summary post which will roll up related blog posts. What? This post will link to different kind of Blog Posts, I will place over time where I explain a new found way … Continue reading PowerApps Gallery: the empowering swiss army knife!
Microsoft Power Platform
Why? Before I deep dive on specific topics, it may be relevant on how I picture this platform. At the beginning it was positioned more as a part of Microsoft Dynamics365 than of Microsoft Office365: The Microsoft Power Platform – Empowering millions of people to achieve more - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Since 2021 a … Continue reading Microsoft Power Platform
