
Display Notifications in Canvas Apps Without Re-Deploying Everytime! (Part 2)
To catch up on where we left off in my last blog post, check out part 1 on how to set up your Canvas App with the correct data model that this blog post enhances. In the first part of this theme we ended with a working set of notifications that could be displayed within…

Display Notifications in Canvas Apps Without Re-Deploying Everytime! (Part 1)
If you manage a suite of Power Apps internally, sometimes you need to get information to individuals fast and without making a change to the software! Whilst there are always alternatives such as sending a Teams message or an email, often the best route is to actually tell the end user within the app itself…

Customise Data Shown in Dropdown Controls in Canvas Apps
When you use a dropdown control within a Canvas App it can be surprisingly tricky to show exactly what you want as an option unless the data already exists as a value in your data source. I assume that the reason for this is that dropdown controls are most commonly used within forms, and therefore…

Calculate ‘Total Days This Month’ Using Power Fx
New year, new challenge! This week I was asked to adapt one of our internal Canvas Apps that was used for an exercise challenge in December to track miles, so that the leaderboard resets to ‘0 miles’ at the beginning of each month. Our team’s goal is to log the miles run or walked within…

Handling Missing User Profile Photos in Canvas Apps
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time working with photos in Canvas Apps in order to create more of a visual impact in my user interface design. Often this photo can come from the Office 365 User’s profile photo upload but we can’t necessarily predict or control whether the end user will definitely have…
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