After PowerAutomate was added in PowerBI as a preview feature, it is finally available for general use. In this blog we are going to use this PowerAutomate visual to export PowerBI data into CSV and upload the CSV on Sharepoint. Open PowerBI Desktop and drag the PowerAutomate Visual, if it isn’t available in the visualization pane update your PowerBI Version. Now add the columns, you need in your CSV file. Click on the ellipsis button on the visual and select edit. Create new flow and select instant cloud flow. A default PowerBI trigger would be created, click on add new step. Search “Compose” action in the search bar and select it as we have to compose PowerBI Raw data first. In the Inputs select PowerBI Data. After composing we have to convert this data into CSV, therefore add “Create a CSV table” step and add previous output. Now we have to upload this CSV into sharepoint so we will add a step to create a sharepoint file. Enter the Sharepoint address, Folder Path, give the file any name desired and put “.CSV” as suffix. Save and close the map. To run the flow, press Ctrl and left click. As you can see the file in SharePoint is created. Thanks for reading, hope this blog helped!

Hello, everyone! We know that Recommendations are created using Business Rules, but that only works on Model Driven Apps. As a result, we’ll develop Custom Recommendations that are flexible and customizable to our needs and enhance our App. This is how the Custom Recommendation looks, Let’s start with a simple use case, I want to set ‘Preferred Method of Contact’ field as Phone when User enters data within ‘Phone’ field within the App. Step 1: Add an Edit Form in Canvas Power Apps where the Recommendation would be applied. Step 2: Within Form properties, Click on Edit Fields Add Custom DataCard. Drag your Card below the DataCard where you need Recommendations. Step 3: Within the Custom DataCard, enter necessary information that you like in your App and use below condition. Step 4: For Apply button, I’m using context variables that sets true when click and remains until record is saved or the current screen is Active. Step 5: For changing values in my combo box on field ‘Preferred method of contact’.Note: Based on your requirement, this will change… That’s all. Hope this helps you.

Hello,In this blog, I’ll show you how to personalize Input Password field with various requirements using strict regular expression in Canvas PowerApp. Now, validation part comes in using RegEx. Let’s say you have a requirement where,1. Password length should be equal or greater than 8.2. Password should contain at least 1 number.3. Password should contain at least 1 lowercase alphabet.4. Password should contain at least 1 uppercase alphabet.5. Password should contain at least 1 special character. After everything all requirements is satisfied, show that password is valid. Let’s say you have 5 labels containing Text of these requirements and will be visible if its respective condition is not satisfied. Hope this helps you.

Introduction: Sometimes while refreshing our dataset in PowerBI or importing new data from existing sources we may encounter OLE DB or ODBC errors as shown in the image below. This might be due to caching issues. To solve this follow the steps: Go to File tab on the ribbon in PowerBI Desktop , then click on About and check the PowerBI version, make sure it is the latest version if not update PowerBI. If PowerBI version is latest, click on the dropdown arrow below the Transform Data button. Click on Data source settings Click on Global Permissions Select the Data Source and click on Clear Permissions and click on close. Click on close and again select the data source as new and enter the credentials. This time the dataset would be loaded without errors. Hope this article helped

If you are curious about the data in XML/HTML/JSON and want to fetch data from it without flow. Here’s something what you can do There’s an inbuilt function in PowerApps that converts HTML/XML to string text. Function Name is ‘PlainText‘. But all tags are neglected and extracting certain data is difficult. Consider you want to extract a small size information which is in XML/HTML/JSON and don’t have time to write a flow. Here’s what you can do I have a XML data.Tip: When converting your XML/HTML to PlainText. It’ll show space and next line if you place tags correctly. Keeping in 1 line or no spaces will reflect in result which will look bad. I have created 2 buttons and 2 input text boxes. 1st button will set XML/HTML/JSON in a variable or collection 2nd button will check for next values if tag found. 1st and 2nd input Text Boxes represent start and end tags There are 3 main variables that we’ll use to iterate the values. Here TagFind, TagFind_End are 2 input text boxes and var1 is variable holding XML data. Find function finds data which is encountered once. Since it has starting point we define it to iterate to next search. Current and CurrentEnd will represent start and end point of tag.Next will determine next index to start searching from We will have 1 label to show our answer Here the text property has the formula that retrieves data within the start and end point of the tag. Finally you will achieve something like this, You can use this fetched data somewhere in your PowerApp. You can also use something similar to extract values in branched data form. In a certain range of data.For example; In above XML, i have ’employees’ as 1 tag determining contents in it.If i had Name tag in employees and Name tag in ‘Department’ then by range of ‘Employees’ or ‘Department’ i can fetch Name of that block only. Hope this idea helped.

Its good to have a user’s choice based font-size but without controlling how it displays on screen may not look good. I have created a simple design that consists of a header, gallery and font-size slider to show how elements react on certain font size. Here’s how it looks. How to make this, Set your font-size range into slider or any other control element like dropdown.Set Title or any text as value of slider or dropdown and use increment or decrement as per requirement.For example: Header title is X then sub-header will be X-2 font-size. To make gallery change its style as per font-sizeSelect ‘Wrap-count’ property of gallery and insert formulaIf(Slider.Value > 25, 1, 2);This will make 1 column is font size is more than 25 else 2. You can create this on every control/elements that requires such change. Hope this helped.

In Canvas PowerApps, we usually show an image that lies over the screen until an execution is completed. But tracking real-time update might be confusing. I’ll show you a simple custom loading control that not only show execution status but also look good and is highly customizable. Here’s a preview how it will look (Note: Determine your layout before hand like X,Y, Height and Width)(Customize your look, I’ve added dots above just for demonstration purpose.)How to make this, Elements used visually are, Create a Rectangle as main background and set Height, Width, X and Y. (I’ve used light grey color) Insert another Rectangle to show loading animation which will fit inside main Rectangle.Determine its Height, Width, X and Y. Label control to show current status or add a simple static label. Gallery Control having circle in them i.e.: Dots (Optional, I used to show how i retrieve data as its similar to Navigation Screen Gallery Control used in 1 of predefined template in Canvass PowerApps) Functionality behind used are, Gallery Control under ‘Items’ I’ve added table. (Based on your content, keep total count of steps you would like to see in loading page. In my case, i have 6 steps) Label Control that shows current status based on current step. Rectangle with loading animation. (Note: Your step count and width may vary) Now you may have a button that will call list of execution that you will perform. To track every successful completion of process just add this, Later reset count and turn visibility off. (Note: This is re-usable and can be used as component.) Hope this helps.

As we know that a Standard Dropdown control do not have enough features and has limited properties to modify. Hence I have created a custom dropdown menu. Some drawbacks in Standard Dropdown,1. It shows only 1 particular attribute as value. Example: “Name”2. If multiple records of same name exist, then you cannot differentiate them. This is Custom Dropdown I have created, Steps to make the custom dropdown menu Step 1. Insert a ‘Text Input’ and ‘Horizontal Gallery’ and set height of gallery of your desired height also change Template Size according to fields added into a row. (As I have added only Name, Phone and Image) Step 2: Add an Icon ‘Down Arrow’ at the right of ‘Text Input’ and change property. onSelect = UpdateContext({showDropdown: !showDropdown})   //Condition to show/hide the CustomDropdown (Gallery). Step 3: Property to be changed.‘Text Input’ changes below, Default = textVal              //It’s a Variable Fill = // Anything you feel suitable, I used “RGBA(230, 230, 230, 1)” Height and Text Size = // Anything you feel suitable. onChange = UpdateContext({showDropdown: !IsBlank(Self.Text)})             // Condition to show/hide the CustomDropdown (Gallery). ‘Gallery’ changes below, Items = Search(Accounts, TextInput.Text, “name”)             // Filter Parameter by text. showScrollBar = false TemplateFill = // Anything you feel suitable, I used “RGBA(255, 255, 255, 1)” TemplatePadding = 10 TemplateSize = // As per your contents in a row Visible = showDropdown              //It’s a Variable Step 4: To add functionality of basic dropdown on selection.Add a button to of size equal to template Size (i.e: cover entire record section) and change properties given below, onSelect = UpdateContext({textval: ThisItem.’Account Name’})    //Defined variable HoverFill = //Anything you feel suitable, I used “ColorFade(RGBA(240,240,240, 0.3), -10%)” Step 5: Custom Dropdown complete. You will have something like this, Note: For additional responsiveness in design, change X, Y, Height, Width. Hope this helps!

Introduction: While using Power apps, we might come across situation where we do not want the user to click on the Save button and then move to next screen to fill in child records. In such case we can use timer control to auto save the form and navigate to new screen. Solution: In my Use Case, I have  Order which will be auto saved and then the screen to fill in  order lines will open. Add the timer control on  order form. I have set auto start to yes and the duration to 2seconds, so when my form will load the timer will auto start and run for 2seconds after which it will execute the action OnTimerEnd. 2. I want to submit the form only when the fields have data. So in the formula,  if data is empty, the user will be notified and timer will reset else the form will be submitted, its id will be saved in variable, the form will reset and user will be navigated to next screen. You can modify the formula based on your requirements. I have saved the last submit, so that I can open the same form for further editing on the new screen. Conclusion: You can implement the auto save functionality of CRM in PowerApp by using timer and submit form on timer end.

Introduction  – In this blog we will see how can we create new record in editable grid itself. Below is the Time Entry Grid and we wanted to add new row on click on “+” Step 1  : Add  new icon “+” on screen and add patch operation On Select of the new icon. Syntax – Patch(Data source, Defaults(Data Source),{Attribute: value}) Output- Hope this helps!