Maps are awesome and adding a map to an app (even a static one), adds that special touch. This post is an introduction to adding a Static Google map to a PowerApp. Create your Google API Key In order to connect to Google and request a static map image, you will need an API key.
This month’s NikTip is about some key differences and potential gotchas I found when helping clients move from Office 365 Commercial and SharePoint on-premises to Office 365 GCC High and what I found in working with a client in the Office 365 GCC environment. These differences are things that I believe IT Pros and Developers
In this tutorial, we will see how to use a timer control along with a touch of maths to scroll a text message across the screen. It’s a very simple example but illustrates some basic animation which can be used in many applications. First, add a simple message to a new PowerApp Before we start
This post is going to show an alternative for conditional formatting using lookup. If you want to see another approach please read ‘How to do conditional formatting in PowerApps’. I often get asked how to do conditional formatting or asked to help change existing conditional formatting that is not based on multiple conditions in an
Tabbed forms are ideal when a form has more controls than screen space. It really helps to use a tabbed form to group items and keep the visible size of your forms manageable. Unfortunately, PowerApps doesn’t ship with a tabbed form so we need to create one using a gallery and some groups of controls.
For the second day of my Christmas series, we are going to build a simple dialog box. When designing an interface you occasionally want to explain the consequences of proceeding to the user and ask for confirmation using a dialog box. For example, this will delete all records relating to this user, do you want
We start my Christmas series with my favourite new thing I found in the past few weeks, Enhanced Groups. This post does a quick overview of a great new feature in PowerApps, Enhanced Groups. This feature is currently set to “Experimental”, so might well vanish at any moment. For now, it can help hugely in
REST programming in SharePoint is straightforward. Microsoft has shared the latest REST way of programming for SharePoint through Graph API. Microsoft Graph APIs are a rich source of APIs for accessing various resources of Office365 like SharePoint, Users, Onedrive. We will focus on SharePoint here. Why use Graph API in SharePoint? Letting developers develop from other
In this video I talk about modern site collections vs classic team site collections, the gotcha that happens when you try to use modern SharePoint site collections, and my suggested workarounds.
In this post, we will see how to implement a cascading dropdown list within the PowerApps application for a list with the two lookup columns where it has to display only the parent values if there are any associated child items. List data setup: SharePoint list “CarGroup” with the following data. Tata Motors Fiat Chrysler
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