Category Archives: PowerApps
Custom Card in Canvas Power Apps
In this blog will see custom cards in Power Apps Use Case: I wanted to separate fields on form by label and it was looking like below: here what i am came up with add custom card on form and try adding label on the Card. Add Custom Card Select form -> Click on edit fields Click on Add a custom Card Custom card will look like this, now change the position of card and try to move it below Name field. To change the position refer this blog: After Changing the Position of card: Now change the width of Card Add Label on Card and change color or style accordingly. and now add fields on the form Here is the final Output: Conclusion: in this we way we can separate fields by adding labels on the form in Canvas Power Apps.
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What are Short Cuts in PowerApps Portal
Introduction: Shortcuts are used to place child nodes(child links) throughout the portal’s sitemap(navigation) which simply points to other nodes that exist in your sitemap, or to URLs external to your portal. Use Case: We have two parent pages- “Hardware” and “Support”. Both are child pages of another page- “Home”. “Support” page has a child page named- “Support Create”. Let’s say we want to add the “Support Create” child page under “Hardware” in the Sitemap(navigation). Steps to create a shortcut Go to the “Portal Management” app. Go to Shortcuts Click on “+New” to create new record Enter following details on the form Attribute Details: Name: Name for the shortcut. For internal use only. Website: The website that the shortcut belongs to. Parent Page: The parent webpage of the shortcut entity in the sitemap. The shortcut will be added to the sitemap as a child of this page. External URL: URL outside of your organization. Web Page: internal webpage of the portal Web File: web file of the portal Title: The title for the shortcut. This is the name that will appear in the sitemap and child navigation view areas. If left blank, the title (or name) of the target entity will be shown instead. After adding all the details save the record Navigate to the portal to see changes you should see new child node named “Raise Support” under “Hardware” If you click on “Raise Support” it will redirect you to the “Create New Support” page NOTE: A shortcut can only have value in one of the ‘Target’ fields (External URL, Web Page, Web File). If more than one target attribute exists for a shortcut, the shortcut will just take the first one, ignoring all others. Reference Article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/configure/place-child-nodes
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Form Validation in Power Apps — Part 1
In this blog, we are going to see how we can do the implementation of form validation in Power Apps. Let get started, I have designed the Sign-Up page which has the following fields: Email Password and Confirm Password Phone Number Following is Screenshot of my Sign-Up Page build in PowerApps: Following is App Controls Structure which I have followed to Create Sign Up Form: I have used “ErrorText” which is HTML Label Control for Logging all the Validation Errors. Now, we will set the Properties on ErrorText control to display the error on the Form for Each Input Following is an explanation of each validation which I have used in this Power Apps: Email Validation Not(IsBlank(‘ControlName’)) — It will validate if Field is blank or not. IsMatch(‘ControlName’.Text , Match.Email) — It will validate the email format and return false if user enter invalid Email Address Code: Password and Confirm Password Validation Not(IsBlank(‘ControlName’)) — It will validate if Field is blank or not. ‘Confirm Password’.Text = Password.Text — It will validate if the password and confirm password are the same or not. It will return false if both password will not match. Code: Phone Number Validation Not(IsBlank(‘ControlName’)) — It will validate if Field is blank or not. IsMatch(‘Control’.Text, “Your country Phone Validation ReGex”) — It will validate if the entered phone number is valid or not using ReGex. I have used phone number validation ReGex for India — “^[6–9]\d{9}$” Following is an explanation of my ReGex: 5. Code: Following is full code for Validation you need to paste in Formula bar of HtmlText Property: Result: Blank Field Validation for each Fields — Email, Password, Confirm Password and Phone Number Email Format Validation Now, you can see after entering valid email error has gone Password and Confirm Password Match Validation Phone Number Format Validation Check After adding valid phone number error is gone Hope this helps, stay tuned for more blogs.
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Form Validation in Power Apps — Part 2
In this blog, we will implement the following validation on our Sign Up Form in PowerApps: Disable Sign Up button if any invalid input is present in Form. Change Border or Fill Color Input which is invalid. Before moving forward please check out my previous blog because this blog is a continuation of my previous blog. Click Here Disable Sign Up button if any invalid input is present in Form Select the Sign-Up button in the form. 2. Select the property DisplayMode so that we can change Display Mode to disable if any invalid input is entered on Form 3. Add the following to in DisplayMode Formula Bar If(ErrorText.HtmlText = “”,Edit,Disabled) It means that when Error Text is empty it will enable the submit button or else it will disable it. Change Border or Fill Color Input which is invalid. Now we will add function in Fill and border to input if that input is Invalid. Email Input Select the Email Input and choice BorderColor Property. 2. Now, In BorderColor we will add the following code in the formula bar, so if Email Input is invalid or not in the format it will change the border color of input to red or you can add whatever color you want. 3. Code : 4. You can see in the following screenshot when an email is invalid or empty then the input border is red. Password and Confirm Password Input Password and Confirm Password Input 2. Now, In BorderColor we will add the following code in the formula bar, so if Password value doesn’t match with Confirm Password Input it will change the border color of input to red. 3. Code: 4. You can see in the following screenshot when password / confirm password does not match or empty then the input border is red 5. For Confirm password Field you can follow the same step as Password Field Phone Number Input Select the Phone Number Input and choice BorderColor Property 2. Now, In BorderColor we will add the following code in the formula bar, so if Phone Number Input is invalid or not in the format it will change the border color of input to red. 3. Code: 4. You can see in the following screenshot when phone no is invalid or empty then the input border is red. Here we finish with our blog, I hope this helps a lot and stay tuned for more blog like this. Thank you
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Change colour of selected record of the Grid
Introduction: In this blog, we will learn how to change the colour of selected record of the Grid. Use Case: We have a requirement where there is a Grid of CDS Data Source, on clicking any record, it should get highlighted. Steps: There is a Screen on which there a Editable grid of custom Entity Objective. To Create an Editable Grid refer to the following link. https://www.cloudfronts.in/create-an-editable-grid-view-in-powerapps/ To add Lookup Fields in the Grid refer to the following link. https://www.cloudfronts.in/add-lookup-fields-in-an-editable-grid-using-powerapps/ This is the grid without highlighting any record. To change the colour of selected records, update the TemplateFill Property: TemplateFill property of the Deactivate Button: Set Gallery.TemplateFill = If( <Guid of record> = <Selected Record GUID>, Color, Color ) For eg: BrowseGalleryObjectives.TemplateFill= If( Objective = BrowseGalleryObjectives.Selected.Objective, RGBA(220, 231, 238, 1), RGBA(0,0,0,0) ) This is the grid with highlighting record. Conclusion: Hope above Blog helps you change the colour of selected record of the Grid.
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Enable Record as Active or Inactive record in PowerApps
Introduction: In this blog, we will learn how to Enable multiple records as active or inactive record. Use Case: We have a requirement where there is a Grid of CDS Data Source, on clicking the Deactivate or Active Button on top of the Grid, it should Deactivate every record which is selected through the checkbox which is there on every record of the Grid. Steps: There is a Screen on which there a Editable grid of custom Entity Objective. To Create an Editable Grid refer to the following link. To add Lookup Fields in the Grid refer to the following link. This is the grid with a checkbox. To Deactivate or Activate selected records, first create a Collection: OnSelect property of the Deactivate Button: When we select the Deactivate Button, it will collect all the records where the Checkbox is selected. To Deactivate the records from the CDS, set the OnSelect property of the Deactivate Button to the following formula: OnSelect property of the Deactivate Button: Combine the Whole formula in the OnSelect property of Deactivate Button : For eg: DeactivateSelectedRecord.OnSelect = Note: For Activating the record just replace the Inactive to Active in the Patch Formula Conclusion: Hope above Blog helps you Activate, Deactivate multiple records of CDS from the Grid.
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Required Privilege for Canvas App in D365 CRM
Introduction This blog explains how to resolve the issue for Canvas App not loading which is embedded in D365 CRM using HTML Webresource. Issue After Canvas App was published and shared with Users still, they were unable to access the Power App. It was showing a blank page with no error. Resolution After debugging the Webpage, I concluded it was missing the Canvas App required privilege. The privilege can be found in D365 CRM as per below screenshot After creating a new role for sharing Canvas App and assigning to User, Canvas App rendered as below Conclusion I hope the above Blog helps you resolve the issue for Canvas App embedded using HTML Webresource in D365 CRM. Note: This privilege is only required for Canvas App embedded with HTML Webresource in D365 CRM.
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Create Fruit Detection App inside Power Platform — PowerApps and AI Build
Before you begin with this Blog, please read my previous blog which was on How to Create Object Detection Model inside the Power Platform — PowerApps | AI Builder. In a previous blog, we have created the Object Detection Model that we are going to use in this blog. Step 1: Expand the AI Builder section in Power App and click on the Models. Open Fruit Detection Model that we have created in the Previous blog series. Click on the Use model and select the Create new App. It will redirect to the Power App Builder Studio. Step 2: You will see the Object Detector Control will automatically on the screen. Your application is ready you can run the detect the objects. Step 3: Now, we will insert the Gallery Control so that we can see the count of each object present in the images. Click on Insert and Select on the Add gallery. If you are not able to see the Option Expand the ribbon from Top right Side. Select Vertical and choose Title and Subtitle. Step 4: Click on the Gallery Control and set the property to ObjectDetector1.VisionObjects Click on the Title and set the property to ThisItem.displayName Click on the SubTitle and set the property to ThisItem.count We will do some changes in the font and alignment of the control so that the application should look simple, readable & accessible. Step 5: Click on File and Save the PowerApp. You can give the name and icon to your PowerApp. Your App is ready you can select your app and click on the Play. And Click Detect it will open your file explorer to select the images. If you are using this application on the mobile your camera will be open. Following is a screenshot of Application with detected Object Inside it. I hope this helps you to understand how to create an Object Detection models and use that Model in Power Apps.
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Create Object Detection Model inside the Power Platform | Power Apps — AI Builder
In this blog, we are going to see how to create object detection model which can be used in PowerApps or MS Flow / PowerAutomate Step 1: Log in to portal.office.com. Select the PowerApps, If PowerApps is not visible then click on All Apps then you will able to see the PowerApps. Step 2: Expand the AI Builder Section and click on Build Section in PowerApps. Note: Please ensure that you are select the correct instance. Step 3: Click on the Object Detection Model We are going to create the Object Detection Model which can be used to created PowerApps or In MS Flow / Automate. Step 4: Name the AI Model and click on Create. Step 5: We will select the Domain of Model so we will go with Common Object. And click on Next. Step 6: Before moving forward, we will download the data which will be used to train and test the Model. Kaggle is the best source for the data to train the machine learning model. We will require the fruit images as we are designing the Fruit Detection Model, search fruit images and download the Dataset given in the screenshot. Select the Fruit Image for Object Detection Click on the Download Step 7: After downloading the Zip file extract it. You will see the following two folders — train_zip and test_zip respectively. Now, we will open the train_zip folder and you can see that there will be four categories of images Apple Banana Orange Mixed [Apple, Banana, Orange] Step 8: Let move back to the PowerApps Platform, 2nd step in the creation of Object Model is to define the object that we are going to detect. Here, we have three objects — Apple, Banana & Orange and click on next to move further steps. Step 9: We will require a minimum 15 images of each category to train our Object Detection Model. Now, we will click on Add Images and select Upload from local storage. Step 10: Select the images. Once all images are upload click on Close. Click on Next Step 11: Now, we are in the most important phase of the training where we provide the Tag or Label to the Images which we have uploaded. Click on the uploaded image and select the area where the object is present. Once you will select the area you will get the option to select the object is that present in the selection area. If an image is not suitable for the model to remove that particular image click on the “Don’t use Image ”. Click on remove to remove the image from the model data set. Step 12: Once you are done will the tagging or labeling the image click on the Done tagging. Note: Please ensure that you have a more tagged image for each model so that your model will work accurately. The more the label data more the accurate your machine learning model. Step 13: Click on the Train to start the training your model based on tagged images. Click on Go to Model It will take around 5–10 min to train based on your complexity of images, model and objects. Step 14: Publish the model. Once you model finished with done and you have published the Model. You can use that model to in Power App or MS Flow. We are going to see that in the next part of this blog.
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Change the Position of Data Card on the Form in PowerApps.
Introduction: In this blog, we will learn how to set the position of Data Card in form. Steps: 1.This is the form of Quote Product. Where all the Data Card is placed one after another. 2.We want this card to be beside one another. 3.To achieve this, click on the Data Card and change X and Y property. 4.These are the X and Y of different Data Card. Conclusion: Hope the above Blog helps you to Change the Position of Data Card in Form.
 
								 
															