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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… Continue reading…
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Create a Rolling Calendar Year in Canvas Apps
Earlier this week I had a requirement to create a screen that would help others forecast an activity for the next 12 months. Whilst I was happy working with the data model, ensuring that the year was based on this month and the next eleven was more difficult than I… Continue reading…
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Visualise Your Day’s Meetings in Canvas Apps
With Microsoft expanding their suite of apps every month, it can be difficult to create the right view of data for you to personally consume without context switching. Recently I have been exploring the Office365Outlook Connector in Canvas Apps to bring a day view of my calendar into a Power… Continue reading…
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Reduce Columns Created in a Collection in Canvas Apps
One of the first lessons when getting to grips with Canvas Apps was that you should always use Collections where possible to reduce the number of calls to the original data source, and with any luck, you may see a performance increase as a result too. However, I often find… Continue reading…
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How to convert UTC into Your Local Timezone in Canvas Apps
One of the technical challenges we have in the UK is that for half of the year we are in the UTC time zone that we’re all familiar with, and the other half we’re in British Summer Time (BST). Those lucky few that keep the same time zone all year… Continue reading…
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Modify An Owner’s Connection References in Power Automate
No matter how amazing an organisation may be, unfortunately there will always be the possibility of someone leaving the organisation. When it comes to Power Automate, this means that you can be stuck with the original Owner of the Cloud Flow having left the organisation, where Connection References eventually error,… Continue reading…
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What is Microsoft’s Accessibility Insights for Web?
One of my favourite things about consulting in Power Apps Portals is that I am able to step back in to the world of traditional web development temporarily, and I get to explore a whole host of tools to improve our solution. Visual improvement tools are cool, but helping ourselves… Continue reading…
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How To Enable ModelDrivenFormIntegration for Existing Canvas Apps
Earlier this week I found myself trying to embed an existing Canvas app into a Model-Driven app to better present information relating to the record using the flexible UI controls, but as an infrequent user of such a feature, I struggled to understand how I could reference the current Model-Driven… Continue reading…
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