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Create custom error messages in Power Apps

We've all seen those error messages that don't make any sense. Have you ever wanted to replace an error messages with your own custom error me...

1 day ago

UTCNow and that little hidden feature in Power Automate

If you have been following my posts on SharePains.com, then you will know about the UTCNow function generating the current UTC time. But did y...

2 days ago

7 Patterns for Offline Apps in Power Apps

For apps it can be important to handle situations where you don't have a connection. These Offline Apps need to work, without losing any funct...

9 days ago

How to use IfError in Power Apps

IfError is a function in Power Apps to handle expected and unexpected errors in your code. There are however, a few issues you may run into if...

15 days ago

Connection.Connected in Power Apps

Anybody ever had problems with Connection.Connected in Power Apps? Connection.Connected is a piece of code in Power Apps that helps you iden...

21 days ago

10 Types of For Loops Structures in Power Automate

For loops are one of the basic structures in coding. There are however many different types of loops. How can we implement various types of lo...

28 days ago

Date Only vs User Local dates in the Power Platform

In this post I'm looking at Date Only vs User Local dates in Dataverse and how this may affect your solutions in the Power Platform. Have you ...

1 month ago

Handling Offline/Online with nested Patch functions in Power Apps

So you developed an app that handles offline and online using LoadData and SaveData, and then you come across this weird behaviour where scree...

1 month ago

How to create a Scheduled cloud flow in Power Automate?

Am I going back to the real basics of Power Automate? No not really. Have you ever tried to create a scheduled cloud flow as part a solution, ...

1 month ago

2 Functions to set Context Variables in Power Apps

Do you know how to set Context variables in Power Apps? I thought, I did as well. But I had forgotten that there are two ways to set context v...

1 month ago