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Video Edition: Variables #PowerWhat

Let’s look at Variables! The video edition! This video will take a walk you through Power Platform Variables!

Canvas Power Apps: Resetting A Text Input Field

This is a video aimed at showing you how easily it is to clear and reenter data into a text input field on a Canvas Power App in under three minutes. The example used here is a search field and clearing the entered search multiple times.

Power App Portals: Restore Deleted Portal Management App

This is a video post to help with those moments of deletion. I’ve recently experience this myself and here’s how I recovered my Portal Management application after it was deleted in under three minutes.

Variables #PowerWhat

So, we’re want to understand what a variable is in terms of computing. Now, if I were to put that a variable is a named unit of data that data can be assigned to, it doesn’t mean much right? Well lets consider breaking this down with Power Automate.

Video Edition: Data Types #PowerWhat

Let’s look at Data Types! The video edition! This video will take a walk you through Data Types!

Data Types #PowerWhat

Let’s look at Data Types! So, we want to understand what variables, functions and more are and how to use them, but first we need to look at how data is stored and what exactly the different ‘types’ of data are. This…

Time Zones and Format Change Examples

I’ve submitted a Flow example to the PowerAutomate Cook Book demonstrating the previously discussed blog post on Time Zones and Formatting. The example displays multiple timezones from around the world and how to display them in an AM and PM format combining the FormatDateTime function with the AddHours and UTCNow. You can find this example […]

A Guide to Power Automate Dates & Times

Happy Holidays! This is a holiday gift blog post will focus on something that I’ve been asked about regularly; an illustrated guide to Power Automate Dates & Times! We will focus on the multiple ways you can retrieve, manipulate and change both dates and times. Retrieving Both Date & Time utcNow Function Method The utcNow() […]

Scrollable Areas in PowerApps

This video will walk you through how to create a new scrollable area with PowerApps on a new app screen and provide an easy to use scrollable list for a user. This is part of a series (videos can be found here) where we will be creating a lightweight application that’s driven by data from […]

Getting Started with our PowerApp

This video will walk you through how to ‘Start the PowerApp’ by creating a Canvas PowerApp, the Landing Screen and navigating to a new Scrollable Screen that we will use in the next video. This is part of a series (videos can be found here) where we will be creating a lightweight application that’s driven […]