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The combo box is the control I reach for whenever users pick from a list: a work mode, a person, a related item. Saving that selection with Patch is where most people get stuck, because SharePoint Choice, Person and Lookup columns each expect a record in a slightly different shape. In this tutorial, I’ll walk … Read more >>>
Almost every Power Apps screen I build needs a way to tell the user what just happened: the form was saved, a required field is missing, or something went wrong. The Notify() function does that with one line, by showing a colored banner at the top of the screen. In this tutorial, I’ll show you … Read more >>>
An operations manager I worked with wanted a screen that looked like a spreadsheet: every product in a SharePoint list, one row each, with columns for name, category, price and release date. A gallery can do it, but it takes a lot of layout work. The Data table control gives you headers, columns and scrolling … Read more >>>
A hotel front desk app I helped with let staff register guests on a tablet. The first guest of the day always went fine. After they pressed Submit, though, the form went blank and just said “Getting your data…” until someone closed and reopened the app. The guest had been saved to SharePoint every time; … Read more >>>
A project tracker I inherited showed “last week’s tasks” in a gallery, and it looked right for months. Then the list passed 2,000 items and tasks started disappearing. Nobody had changed anything. The yellow triangle on the gallery had been warning about exactly this from day one: Power Apps was only looking at the first … Read more >>>
A project team I support tracks start and delivery dates in a SharePoint list, and their Power Apps screen saves those dates with a Save button instead of a form. It worked perfectly in the office in Chicago. Then a contractor in another time zone started using it, and some dates landed a day early. … Read more >>>
The first time I patched a Dataverse choice column, I did what I’d always done with SharePoint and wrote {Value: “Married”}. Power Apps rejected it with a type error. Dataverse choices work differently: you pick them from a list of named values, called an enum, and once you know the syntax, it’s actually simpler than … Read more >>>
A purchasing team I worked with had a request form where urgent requests skipped the manager approval step. People kept forgetting to change the Approval Required field to No, and the requests sat waiting for approvals nobody needed. Setting that choice automatically from the Request Type field took one formula and removed the problem. In … Read more >>>
A help desk app I built had a Submit button that people kept pressing before choosing a category, which saved tickets with no category at all. The fix was a one-line check on the combo box: if nothing is selected, the button stays gray. It sounds simple, but the obvious formula, IsBlank(), doesn’t work the … Read more >>>
An HR coordinator I worked with entered leave requests for a whole department one after another. Every time she submitted one, the Approver box still showed the last person she’d picked, and twice a request went to the wrong manager. The app needed one thing: reset the combo box after each submit. Resetting sounds simple, … Read more >>>
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