Quick Power Apps References
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Free Community License of Power Apps
Get your not for production license to create as many apps as you want. You will just not be able to share those apps with others. Once there, click Create Individual Environment and use your work credentials.
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App in a Day Free Recordings
Click Free Trial for a forever free App in a Day class amongst other courses.
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Brian Knight's Power Apps Playlist
Brian's YouTube playlist for beginners to experts trying to learn Power Apps.
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Power Apps Beginner Tutorial Video
The best interactive video to start when learning Power Apps. Learn how to create an app from scratch that uses a database.
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App in a Day Slides
Get the slides we use in the App in a Day presentation.
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Power Apps Naming Convention
Start building Power Apps with some type of naming convention. This one is a great starting point for most.
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Using Beautiful Colors in Your App
Are you color challenged? This site will give you some nice color hues to try.
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Power Apps Licensing
See the present pricing for Power Apps
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Power Apps Licensing Explained Video
The video that humanizing the confusing world of licensing Power Apps.
Common Expressions to Know First
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Show the current logged in user |
The User Function Examples
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Filter the rows to a certain criteria |
The Filter expression can filter the rows based on an expression of your choosing.
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Lookup a value in another table or source |
The lookup function can see the value from a different source based on an expression.
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Create a Global Variable |
Global variables can be seen on any screen. They can be created when you start an app by selecting the App OnStart event or on any actionable event.
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Navigate to a new screen |
Navigation can be done two ways: either go back to the previous screen you cam from or navigate to a specific screen..
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Send data from a form to the source. |
A few ways to send data from a form are SubmitForm or the Patch commands. The SubmitForm is easiest with he smallest amount of flexibility.
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Searching multiple columns for a row |
The Search command does a contains search across multiple columns and is usually used in galleries or data tables.
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Updating or inserting data without a form |
The Patch function is one way to update or insert data without using a form. For example, you can tie it to an OnChange even of a drop down box.
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