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Read the about page →Run Power Apps Actions with Elevated Permissions via Power Automate, from Reza Dorrani
A Power Automate flow’s connections belong to whoever configured them, not to whoever happens to trigger the flow. Reza Dorrani uses that fact to let a Power Apps user perform actions - creating a ...
How to Track the Current Progress of a Flow in PowerApps
In some scenarios, you or your users would like to see how far a Cloud Flow process (Power Automate) has progressed after starting it via PowerApps. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to use “Respon...
Fill and Sign a Word Document with Power Apps and Power Automate, without Premium Actions, from Paulie M
How to fill placeholders in a Word document template from Power Automate without the premium Word connector, by treating the .docx file as a ZIP archive and editing its internal XML directly.
How to Implement OnKeyDown/OnKeyPress Behavior in PowerApps Text Input: Creative Control Workarounds by Paulie M
Paulie M works around a real gap in Power Apps: the Text Input control has no OnKeyDown or OnKeyPress event, only OnChange, which tells you the text changed but not which key caused it or when exac...
Power Automate Flows vs Automate Rules: Performance and Efficiency Comparison by Daniel Christian
Daniel Christian compares two ways to react to a SharePoint list change: a Power Automate flow, and the newer, lighter-weight SharePoint Automate Rules. The core difference is where the condition g...
How to Send a 1:1 Message via Power Automate in Teams: Direct Personal Messaging Solution
Finally, a solution for sending personal direct messages via Power Automate! For a long time, it wasn’t possible to send direct messages where you appear as the sender instead of the flow bot. Ph...
Power Apps: Refresh() Is Killing Your App Performance - an Alternative Method, from Paul O'Flaherty
Why calling Refresh() on a full data source hurts Power Apps performance, and how to update only the affected record instead, using UpdateContext and a variable to bypass Power Apps' short-lived data-call cache.
Power Apps PDF Viewer for a SharePoint Document Library, without a Flow, from Reza Dorrani
How to display a PDF from a SharePoint document library directly in a Power Apps PDF Viewer control, using SharePoint's download.aspx URL pattern instead of a Power Automate flow.
Build a Simple Multilingual Canvas App in 3 Steps
TL;DR: Keep all translations in one table (one column per language), load the right column into a colTranslations collection at OnStart using Left(Language(), 2), rename it to a fixed Value column,...
Power Apps ComboBox DefaultSelectedItems: Set One or Multiple Default Values
How to set DefaultSelectedItems in a Power Apps ComboBox: working formulas to pre-select one or multiple default values for text, SharePoint Choice, Lookup and Person columns.
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