Category: Screen Design
Troubleshooting - How to recover corrupted screens
On rare occasions, screens can come corrupt. On these occasions, we can sometimes recover our work by using the duplicate screen option, and this post describes this technique in more detail.
Screen Design - Show or hide controls based on other controls or on a button click
There is often the requirement to show or hide controls depending on other control values, or on a button click. This post describes how to carry out this task.
Designer - 3 Features you may have missed in the screen designer
If you've been working with Power Apps for some time, you may not have noticed the small improvements and enhancements that have been applied over time. Here are 3 features that you may have missing.
General - How to apply gradient colours to screens
One way to improve the visual appearance of an app is to apply gradient colours to controls. We may want to apply a gradient colur style to an entire screen, or to specific parts of a screen only, such as header or title sections.In this post, we'll walk through one way to accomplish this, with the help of an HTML text control.
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Tim Leung Author, software developer, Power Platform specialist |