AaronKGumbs
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Personas in Azure DevOps
As someone who delivers software to multiple clients, I often find myself sifting through multiple Azure DevOps Backlogs on a weekly basis. This can be quite tedious, but one of the most underrated features of Azure DevOps to help ease this process has to be the Personas extension by Agile… Continue reading…
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Build a Sales Pipeline in Canvas Apps
One of the phrases I hear so often is “when would I ever use algebra in real life?!” – Well here is your answer. Today I came across a very interesting challenge whilst trying to build a Sales Pipeline graphic in Canvas Apps. I could easily ensure that the widths… Continue reading…
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Organising Flurries of Teams Notifications
It’s been a busy couple of weeks over in my world, with 4 days of work visits to Stroud, Bristol, and Hungerford in five working days! This was an exceptionally busy time which only happens once a year or so, but I’m always conscious of Teams pinging in the background… Continue reading…
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Using ‘Monitor’ to Troubleshoot Power Apps Errors
This week I made a mistake in a Canvas App. It happens. I was using the TimeZoneOffset function in a larger Power Fx formula to calculate the local time for our colleagues across the pond, and for some reason I decided to include the current date as a variable inside… Continue reading…
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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… Continue reading…
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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… Continue reading…
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Display a Random Collection Item in Canvas Apps
When we’re building Canvas Apps, one of the most important factors in your design is whether you can give your users a reason to come back to your app. Some of these solutions may be sophisticated, such as automated notifications that prompt the user to check the application when updates… Continue reading…
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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… Continue reading…
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