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Controls - How to create multi-line tooltips or multi-line text input control hint text

If you're stuck on how to insert line breaks in tooltips and hint-text for text input controls, here's a quick guide on how to accomplish this.

Designer - How to better collaborate with other app builders using the new comments feature

When building apps in Power Apps studio, we can now collaborate with other app builders by adding design time comments to apps. This post walks through this new functionality.

Apps - How to open Power Apps MSAPP files - 2022

Following the recent update to the Power Apps Studio UI, here's where to find the menu items to open and save local MSAPP files.

Ignite Conference - Receive free Power Platform exam certifications 2022

The Ignite conference returns in 2022 in October and you can pick up some free Microsoft certification exams by registering!

Power Apps Studio - Why the sad face?

What's the reason for the sad face icon that can appear in the Power Apps designer and what can we do about it?

Example - How to use a drop down control to convert currencies

For cases where we want to display values or prices in a different currency, this post describes a simple example of how to use a drop-down box to display the converted value.

Formula - How to parse JSON in Power Apps- 4 examples

Following the introduction of the ParseJSON function, we can more easily parse JSON for use from within Power Apps. This post highlights the formula to parse 4 typical JSON structures that we may encounter.

How to use formulas to perform calculations in Excel and to display the results in Power Apps

This post walks through how to perform calculations with formulas in Microsoft Excel, and how to return the results to Power Apps using Power Automate and Office Script.

Dataverse - What are the benefits, and how to create formula columns

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the preview release of formula columns for Dataverse. This post summarises the benefits of formula columns and walks through the steps of how to define a formula column.

Example - How to build hard-coded/data driven menus

Building data driven menu structures can be very beneficial. They can improve app performance, and we can better customise menus by filtering items by user, or by storing the menu item in data source. This post walks through an example of how to build a data driven menu structure

Forms - How to set the value of a field to todays date for new records only

A common requirement is to set the default value of a form field to today's date, only when a user enters a new record. In edit mode, the field value should remain the same. This post walks through how to carry out this task.

Flow - How to delete 'Ask in PowerApps' parameters in Flow

When building Power Automate flows for use with Power Apps, a frustrating issue is that it isn't obvious how to delete unwanted 'Ask in PowerApps' parameters. This post describes how to carry out this task.

Screens - How to copy screens between apps

This post walks through the technique that we can use to copy screens between canvas apps.

Dates - How to display minutes as hours/minutes, and days/hours/minutes

If you need to convert an input value in minutes into hours and minutes, this post describes the formula to carry out this task.

Updates - How to find the dates and details of upcoming Power Apps feature releases and updates

For planning purposes, it's very useful to know the dates and details of upcoming Power Apps updates. The new Release Planner portal makes this task easy.