Problems : OptionSets in Power Apps (Canvas apps can be a little nasty to work with, today I took a couple of hours  trying to use an Option...

Overview :  Recently I was looking at reporting from the Dataverse/CDS and I drew up these options that give the business various options bu...

Update: 13 August 2023 - Power Apps Licencing has change considerably since this post, for example here is updated information on Power Auto...

 August/September 2022 has been a busy month for the Power Platform Here are two experimental features I think are massive: Named formulas ...

Problem :  As part of my OAuth process I need to swap and authorisation code for an Access Token using an API, the issue is that I need to g...

Overview :   It is a good idea to have an agreed set of standards in an organisation and within the development teams.  Microsoft has Power ...

Overview : I get a JSON string representing an object into Power Apps.  I want to extract the values so i can use them in PowerApps.  Since ...

Problem :  I am provisioning a new team inside my tenant using Power Apps.  The code throws an error and I can't get the TeamId, however...

Overview :  Model-driven apps are one of three types of PowerApps we can build.  Sits on the CDS/Dataverse. Model Driven Apps use the CDS t...

Overview :  A Canvas Power App can easily connect to Excel held with SharePoint of OneDrive.   It is great for getting values in, or for rea...

Problem :  Power Apps is great but historically you either build for the tablet or the phone and then the end users get an alright experienc...

Overview :  Power Apps is driven by data and generally that data comes from Connectors.  So the great news is there are a lot of different c...

Overview : Power Apps integrates to directly log to App insights.  This post looks at the issues around Tracing in App insights. Setup...

Overview : Teams are amazing, I was a complete Slack fan, but I'm 100% now a teams supporter.  It's part of O365, replaces Skype (w...

No self respecting technologies/programmer/ex-programmer likes simple solutions.  I still chose C# as my go to problem solver (I learnt to ...

Error Handling: App Insights logging:  https://sharepains.com/2019/01/24/powerapps-experimenting-with-error-handling/   Replaced as Micros...

Problem :  Creating a new component with Input parameters.  When using the component and setting the custom input parameter with a globa...

Overview :  A sample architecture for DTAP in a highly controlled environment.  There are a lot of variations and the ability to use Power ...

Some of my Power Apps notes: Licencing: Determine your Power Apps licence using Power Apps Web user interface: Power Apps > Settings...

Overview :  Licensing has change a fair amount over the past 3 years for Power Apps and Flow.  This post summaries my understanding of lice...