Design
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Saving and displaying multi-choice Combo Box in a Text field
It is well documented how to save the contents of a multi-select combo box to a Single Line of Text field, but not so how to successfully get the content back into the DefaultSelectedItems of the control. I will do two examples here (both related) – one on a Choice field and the other on a list of items. Items referenced as follows Choice field Items Update of Data Card DefaultSelectedItems List Field Next is a list based on a field from another List) – I will refer to the elements as follows Items Update of Data Card DefaultSelectedItems and that is about the extent of the process. I hope this is useful to you.
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Starting your app – good practices
Planning your controls Now you have read my blog on Data Structure and have a great one in place, you are ready to get in and construct your app. You have put in a gallery and a form and are ready to write some code. What else do you have to do? Firstly, planning to lay a foundation for your app, you need to know “where everything is”. You will have to refer to all of your controls (screens, galleries, forms, controls) constantly in your code. You are assisted in this endeavor by the built-in IntelliSense function, which “predicts” what you might want to type and displays it in a…
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Constructing your first Power App – before you start
This might seem a bit of a strange subject title, but in the words of a great man of the past It is a bit like putting a roof on a house then wondering whether the foundations will hold it up – you need to construct your foundations to allow for the things you might want to do in the future. You have opened your new shiny new O365 box and had a look inside. You have purchased an E3 licence as you do not want the additional expense of premium features and are now wondering what you can do with what you have. The answer is quite a lot…
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Power Apps Slide Show Into Screen
This image show can be used on any screen, but would be good as a company intro when the app is opened. The example above has three images, but as many as required can be loaded. What is going on is fairly simple. The three images are firstly loaded into the Power Apps Media Next there are three Timer controls in this one (which are hidden) – one for each image displayed. At App OnStart(or Screen OnVisibleif that suits), initialize the first Timer with a Variable Now the first Timer has the following settings AutoStart: true Duration: 4000 (4 seconds, but set to whatever you want) OnTimerEnd: Set(vTimer,”Start2″) starts the second Timer Start: vTimer=”Start1″ Repeat: false Reset: false The…