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How to work more quickly with Power Apps by creating browser bookmarks

If you work frequently with Power Apps, it's a good idea to create browser bookmarks to help quickly navigate to the most commonly used areas. This describes the fomrat of the URLs that we can add as bookmarks.

To work more productively with Power Apps, here's my list of URLs that I recommend that we setup as bookmarks.

1. Bookmark to Maker Portal

The number one bookmark we should setup is a bookmark to the Maker Portal. This is the central area that provides access to the apps list, Dataverse tables, and menu items to create new apps. Here's the URL for the Maker Portal.

https://make.powerapps.com/

2. Bookmark to Power Apps Studio

Another useful bookmark we should add is a bookmark to Power Apps Studio. This is the place where we create or edit apps, and URL for this is:

https://create.powerapps.com/studio/


The reason why It's very useful to add a bookmark to Power Apps Studio is because it isn't possible to open this from the Maker Portal without first creating, or editing an existing app..

When we want to open a local msapp file, or to create a template app with an Excel data source in a user defined area, a bookmark to the Power Apps Studio offers the most direct route to carry out these tasks.

3. Bookmark to create a new app in the designer

We can add a bookmark to that opens Power Apps studio with the brand-new app by specifying and address in the following format:
 
https://create.powerapps.com/studio/#action=new-blank&app-type=tablet&app-name=appname
The arguments we pass in the URL are action=new-blank, the app-type, and app-name (to specify the new app name).

We coud optionally sepcify the environment name, and to change the app type to phone like so:

https://create.powerapps.com/studio/#environment-name=Default-df7b308b-854f-4f83-bb6b-bcee961c8b66&action=new-blank&app-type=phone&app-name=appname

The reason why it's useful to add a bookmark that opens a new app in the editor is because it offers a simple way to create temporary apps to experiment with syntax and formula

4. Bookmark to edit an existing app in the designer

We can create a bookmark that opens a specific app in the editor by using the URL in the following format
 
https://create.powerapps.com/studio/#source=portal&environment-name=Default-df7b308b-854f-4f83-bb6b-bcee961c8b66&action=edit&app-id=%2Fproviders%2FMicrosoft.PowerApps%2Fapps%2F7e14553c-0ad7-4646-9455-34a33a57f84b
The important items to specify are the action=edit argument, and to specify the GUID of the app-id that we want to edit.

If there's a app that we're frequently working on, adding a bookmarks saves the muliple mouse clicks that are needed to find and to open an app from the apps list.

5. Bookmarks to administrative areas

Finally, it's also very useful to create a bookmark to the Power Platform admin centre, which enables us to manage environments, resources, analytics, and data loss prevention policies.
 
https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/

It can also be very useful to add a bookmark to the Microsoft 365 admin centre for managing users.
 
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home?#/users

Conclusion

One way to work more productively in Power Apps is to add browser bookmarks to the most commonly used areas. This post highlighted 5 useful bookmarks that we can add.
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