Monitor (The tool). Stop debugging with "Notify()" messages! Use the Monitor tool in Power Apps to see the network trace. You can see exactly how long the data retrieval took and which query is slowing you down. It’s the F12 of Power Platform.
#PowerApps
Blog: https://txtechnician.tech/r/notif
Copy/Paste code from blog to build app.
App Workflow:
Email comes in from "important@example.com"
Power Automate sends a notification to the customer's cell phone.
Customer clicks the notification, which opens a Power App.
Power App displays a list of emails filtered by the criteria "important@example.com"
Customer clicks the button in the app, which opens the email in their browser so they can quickly answer it.
🟪 The Death of Manual Docs: DevOps for Power Platform
Stop manual docs—automate documentation from Azure DevOps solutions into Markdown, diagrams, and Word as part of CI/CD pipelines. This demo shows Power Platform Build Tools and community extensions producing living, version-controlled docs tied to solution metadata. Benefits include fewer errors, faster releases, and stronger governance across DEV→TEST→PROD.
💡 Auto-generate docs from solution metadata
🔍 Integrates with Azure DevOps pipelines and build tools
⚖️ Versioning, traceability, and governance
Canvas App "Modern Controls" are no longer just "nice to have." With the 2026 updates, the accessibility (ARIA labels) and performance of modern controls blow the classic controls out of the water. If you are starting a new app today, do not use the classic controls. You’re building instant technical debt.
🟪 Calendar View in Power Apps Model-Driven Apps
From a recent demo video: Calendar view turns tables into visual schedules—making task and activity management immediate and intuitive. 🚀
💡 Faster task management: create/edit records directly from the calendar.
🔍 Better visibility: day/week/month views and quick record discovery.
⚖️ Personalized: respects work hours and time zone settings.
Try enabling Calendar Control V2 or ask your admin—what workflow would benefit most?
#PowerApps #ModelDrivenApps #Dynamics365 #Productivity
Canvas Apps: "Concurrent" function.
Load data in parallel! Concurrent(ClearCollect(A, ...), ClearCollect(B, ...))
If you load sequentially, you are waiting A+B. Concurrent is Max(A, B). It cuts load time in half.
Accessing the code behind Power Automate cloud flows is too damn hard. So I created a bookmarklet that helps you grab the flow JSON.
Now you can paste it to your favorite AI low-coding tool and ask it to review the logic. Click "Copy JSON" for full code, "Copy for AI" if you want to save tokens.
Do this:
1) Drag the button to your browser favorites.
2) Get GUID of your #PowerAutomate flow.
3) Open model-driven #PowerApps
4) Click bookmarklet, enter the GUID
5) Profit!
🟩 Stop Clicking Export — Dataverse + Azure DevOps
Ready to ditch manual "Export Solution"? I watched a concise tutorial that shows how Azure DevOps pipelines enable traceable, automated Power Apps deployments. 🚀
💡 Automate deployments with clean commits—no XML chaos
🔍 Sync work items and statuses between ADO and Dataverse
⚖️ Improve visibility, reporting, and compliance
Laura Rogers: 10 #PowerApps Tips to Level Up Your Skills
https://www.iwmentor.com/pages/blog/10-power-apps-tips-to-level-up-your-skills
The "Creator Kit" from Microsoft. Why are you building a custom date picker? The Creator Kit has fluent UI controls that look exactly like modern Outlook/Teams. Download it. Use it. Look professional.
More details and speculation on what the Power Apps licensing changes mean for customers:
https://licensing.guide/what-should-power-apps-per-app-customers-do-now/
Keep an eye on the Code Apps and Managed Environments licensing requirements in particular. #PowerApps #PowerPlatform #licensing
2 weeks into 2026, Microsoft finally made a blog post about the Power Apps per app licenses end of sale.
I chose not to believe what the post said and decided to record a live video of me trying to purchase a real Power Apps license on Jan 15th:
https://youtu.be/pHuQdGbeSsM
Compare that to what MS says here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/power-app-per-app-end-of-sale
🟪 Changing a Form Field from Single Line Text | Power Apps Basics
Power Apps: changing a form field type hinges on three settings. Get them right or expect submission errors and misaligned labels.
Set Update to write the correct data type back to the source. Use Default for value controls and DefaultSelectedItem for record controls. Reset the Y value of error labels after removing inputs.
💡 Update — controls value saved
🔍 Default / DefaultSelectedItem — controls shown value
⚖️ Location — fix error-label Y offset
What tip helped you avoid form issues?
#PowerApps #LowCode #UX #Productivity
Did you know there's an XrmToolBox plugin that gives you a real-time monitor for the Power Platform solution import process, as well as import job details after completion? Well, I didn't, until I saw _n.SolutionManager in the Recently Updated list of Plugin Catalog:
https://xrm.jukkan.com/store/plugin/Greg.Xrm.SolutionManager
I've got issues with the PPAC Know Issues UI. So, I decided to solve it via client-side scripting + Claude Code.
Enhance your Power Platform Admin Center experience with this Tampermonkey script, available in my GitHub repo:
https://github.com/jukkan/power-bookmarklets
#PowerPlatform #Tampermonkey #PowerApps #PowerAutomate #Dynamics365
Makers: "Gallery.Selected" is risky. If a user filters the gallery, the selection might reset. Use a variable (Set(varRecord, ThisItem)) on the OnSelect property. It’s safer and more predictable. State management > UI dependence.
【Power Apps】ログインユーザーとメールアドレスから表示名を取得する方法（202601部会企画）
https://qiita.com/gumigumi_/items/256ec8347fff2c54e4aa?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items
Made a Timezone Calculator in Power Apps.
Copy and Paste the solution. Code is on my website:
https://txtechnician.tech/r/timzone-calc
@davepotts I come from model-driven #PowerApps side and that's still a robust enterprise app platform. #PowerPlatform governance capabilities have also improved a lot.
As for what people mostly think when they hear Power Apps, I'm afraid canvas apps will get abandoned by Microsoft. They now want to use AI to generate #vibecode apps, running as Code Apps on the same Dataverse foundation.
If they manage to combine it with benefits of data platform & admin controls, sweet. But still in preview.
What do we think about #PowerApps ?
A couple of years back, we tried them out at work, but the software development lifecycle was painful - "how do I put that in source control"?
Any recent improvements?
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