Preeti Sahu 
I often see this issue in service desk and inventory apps. A Power Apps Dropdown connected to a SharePoint list shows “IT,” “HR,” and “Finance” several times because multiple records use the same department value. That makes a simple filter look unpolished and forces users to scroll through repeated options. The good news is that … Read more >>>
When I build an HR Leave Request app for a small company, the first complaint is always the same: “Why are employees still typing department, leave type, and manager name manually?” Misspellings, inconsistent values, and messy reports soon follow. The fix is simple but powerful — move those fields to Power Apps Dropdown controls bound … Read more >>>
Your Power Automate flow is ready: it creates a SharePoint list item, sends an approval, maybe even posts to Teams. Everything works in testing, until you realize one thing: you don’t reliably have the user’s email address. Sometimes you need the person who triggered the flow, sometimes the creator of a list item, sometimes the … Read more >>>
You build a canvas app, and before long, the same formula shows up in five different places. You copy a LookUp once, then again for another label, then again for a visibility rule. A week later, you need to change that logic, and now you have to hunt through the whole app to fix it. … Read more >>>
Imagine you’re building an Employee Leave Request app where employees submit leave requests for vacation, sick leave, etc. Before they submit the form, they need to enter details like their work email, employee ID, and phone number. But users type anything they want, and your SharePoint list fills up with messy data. This is where … Read more >>>
If you’ve developed Power Apps applications, you’ve probably used buttons such as New, Edit, Delete, View, Approve, and Reject. These actions are common in almost every business application. In one of my projects, I found myself creating the same set of buttons on multiple screens. Although the button design remained the same, the action behind each button was different. Maintaining … Read more >>>
When building Canvas Apps in Power Apps, there are certain controls we use repeatedly across multiple applications. For example: Now imagine creating the same design manually in every single app. It takes time, and maintaining consistency becomes difficult. This is where the Power Apps Component Library becomes very useful. A Component Library allows you to … Read more >>>
Building a Canvas App in Power Apps is only half the job. Once the app is ready, the next step is making it available to the right people in your organization. For example, you may want to share: The good thing is, Power Apps makes the sharing process quite simple. In this Power Apps tutorial, … Read more >>>
Have you ever filled out an online form, selected your country, and then watched the “State” dropdown automatically update to show only the states for that specific country? That is a cascading dropdown in action. When you use cascading dropdowns, the choices in one dropdown depend entirely on what the user selected in the previous … Read more >>>
For the past few years, I have built many Power Apps apps for clients. We also built some full products. In most of these apps, we used deep linking for different purposes. For example, we showed screens based on user roles. We also used deeplinks in emails. When a user submitted a ticket, leave request, … Read more >>>
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