Power Apps: Assign values to variables
by A few weeks ago, I got an amazing question from Jason about variables and buttons, specifically how to achieve what we get from other programming languages …
Category: Power Apps
Power Apps is a platform that looks complex and difficult to learn, but it’s quite the opposite. It provides a simple and straightforward interface that allows you to do advanced apps quite efficiently. I write these articles with step-by-step tutorials to teach you how to build your apps in Power Apps. Once you understand these concepts, you will be able to, develop, and provide rich apps platforms with not a lot of work. You can even, automatically, offer these for mobile usage, desktop, and even web. If you’re a pro, I’m sure you can find something useful and learn something.
Power App: Color Function
Color makes everything better, and it’s an amazing way to help highlight elements, make the UI easier to use and read, and much more. The …
Power Apps: How to auto-layout your elements?
Power Apps enables us to build very complex layouts but having them look good is hard. Not only looking good but looking symmetrical. Even if …
Power App: Choices Function
The choices function returns a table of elements that we can choose from. Note the return “table,” meaning that we can use other functions like …
Power Apps: Single Source of Truth
One of the most common mistakes that I see in Power Apps is people hardcoding values in the app. Your app should not have multiple …
Power App: Len Function
The Len function is highly versatile and super useful. It is also a function used in all programming languages that I know since it serves …
Power Apps: Provide more information with color
For lists, there’s a lot of information that you can provide, but there’s one that we often don’t use. Color. It’s handy to have the …
Power App: Table Function
Not all data lives in data sources and, once in a while; it’s useful to generate a table of objects that lives in your App. …
Power Apps: Microsoft Power Fx
There were some rumors about this, and they materialized in Microsoft’s Ignite 2021. Microsoft introduced Power Fx, an open-source programming language based on Excel. I …
Power App: Count Function
There are several count functions in Power Apps, and all of them draw inspiration from Excel. I will detail them all in this reference but, if …