Category: Data

Feb 20, 2025

Data - How to remove trailing comma all rows in a table

If you're struggling with trailing commas in your Power Apps data, this post describes how to easily remove trailing commas from all rows in a table.

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Oct 06, 2024

Data - How to find the common rows from 3 or more collections

In an app with multiple collections, how can we find identical rows across three or more collections? This post describes the formula that we can use.

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Feb 26, 2024

Data - How to show the distinct rows from 2 data sources or collections

If you want to combine the contents of 2 collections or data sources and return the distinct rows, this post walks through an example of how to carry out this task.

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Feb 21, 2024

Data - How to implement circular rotational date sorting

There can sometimes be a requirement to implement circular or rotational sorting, particularly in the case of data that contains dates. This post describes the formula to carry out this task.

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Jun 18, 2023

Bug - What to do when the data section of the Power Apps Maker portal doesn't work

Currently, there is a bug that prevents connections from being created, shared, or edited from the Power Apps Maker portal. Here's what to do if you experience this problem.

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Oct 13, 2022

Data - Combine columns from separate tables into a single table

This post describes the formula to merge or combine separate columns from different tables/collections into a single table.

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Sep 23, 2021

Formula - Transposing/converting rows to columns- an almost impossible task?

A common requirement is to transpose records in Power Apps - in other words, to convert rows to columns or columns to rows. This post discusses this topic and provides an example of how to carry out this task.

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Jul 14, 2021

Data - How to rename field names in a record

From time to time, it may be necessary to rename a field name in a record. This post describes the formula to carry out this task.

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Jul 09, 2021

Data - How to hide duplicate rows in a gallery / show distinct multiple columns in a gallery

A common requirement to show multiple distinct columns, or to hide duplicate rows in a gallery control. This post highlights a technique to carry out this task.

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Jun 26, 2021

Data - Retrieving news/forum/blog articles with RSS

If you want to build an app that retrieves, displays, aggregates, and saves news articles, one way to acomplish this is to use RSS. This post describes how to retrieve content by using the RSS connector in Power Apps.

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Jun 23, 2021

Data - How to sort by partial numbers in a text field

A challenge that we may encounter is, how can we sort a table/list of records by a number that partially appears in a field? An example of where this could occur is where we want to sort manufacturing product descriptions that contain the numeric part number, and we want to sort by the numeric portion of this text. This post describes the formula we can use to carry out this task.

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Jun 19, 2021

Data - How to return the last record from a table

A common question from app builders is, how do we return the last record from a table? The reason for this question is because the Last function may not return the expected record. This post examines this behaviour and describes the most efficient way to return the last record from a table.

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Jun 18, 2021

Data - How to create bulk test/dummy records with random values

When building apps, it's useful to be able to populate tables with dummy or test records so that we can test and see how our app behaves. This post demonstrates formula to generate multiple records with random values, and how to add those records to a table.

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May 11, 2021

Data - 3 things you should know before using the MySQL or PostgreSQL connectors

If you're thinking of using Power Apps to connect to MySQL or PostgreSQL databases, here are 3 things you should be aware of before you start.

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Apr 26, 2021

Data - A walkthrough of how to migrate the data source of an app from Excel to Sharepoint

How easy is it to migrate the data source of an app from from Excel to SharePoint? This post describes the steps that are needed to carry out a data migration, and provides a demonstration by walking through the steps to migrate the sample Service Desk app from Excel to SharePoint.

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