Power Apps Ideas

Rjcarpen · ‎07-03-2019

Creating basic apps in PowerApps is decievingly simple, but once we start taking them to users for feedback the special cases require some complex programming. Developing and manipulating collections and variables is very time consuming when you have to constantly switch back and forth the the collections and variables screen to verify your naming and results or create temporary output tables to see logic effects real-time. PowerApps should allow the ability to pop the collections and variables lists out into a second window to match industry standard IDE expirience.

jiwanovski · ‎06-18-2019

Hi everybody, there are some limitations of the standard controls in Canvas Apps (example: Radius properties are only available on text inputs not on combobox inputs) and in some cases you have do work with some "ugly stuff" to create something like a treeview control (it is possible but not that beautiful from a developer perspective). So I would like to suggest to make the custom control framework (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/component-framework/create-custom-controls-using-pcf) also available fot PowerApps Canvas and not only ModelDriven. With this we could really create a bunch of new cool apps and there could be a "marketplace" to share new custom controls with each other.

HenryJammes · ‎04-24-2019

Please consider adding support for global notifications in model-driven apps, that would be visibile from any place in the application (forms, views, dashboards, etc.) and on any type of device, including mobile. Today, notifications are only supported at the form level with the setFormNotification method. Business case for global notificiations: Compliance: to display a permanent warning to users of the application on how they should use it. News and adoption: to push information to users (e.g. to warn users about a potenial application maintenance downtime, to push usage tips, to remember about particular marketing operations and offers "10% off on this product this week", or to remember to update their opportunities, etc.) Examples of rendering: At the form level (this is the only case where this is already supported): At the view level: At the dashboard level: On other types of pages / web resources: User Experience: When multiple notifications are present, they are collapsed and must be expanded in this manner, in order not to disrupt the user experience (which is good):

jiwanovski · ‎04-08-2019

Hi everybody, it would be very helpful if you have some triggers like "OnVisible", "OnLoad" etc. available at components. There can be multiple reasons to do anything (load data, etc.) when your component is visible or something else.

warsongg00 · ‎10-16-2019

I want to be able to add objects in powerapp that have the following fields: ip , device name and methods ping , ping frequenty , change ping timer and each object has 2 icons red and green to show the status, other object properties , how long the deivce was online for, downtime and live ping mintor

rdegrove · ‎03-29-2019

Today I'm struggling to understand a web API fault with NO message content. It's uncommon, but not the first time I've seen an error with no message out of Dynamics internals. It's inconsistent with MS best practices https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/exceptions/best-practices-for-exceptions#include-a-localized-string-message-in-every-exception and easily caught in a code review, so please, no more responses like the one below. {"error":{"code":"0x80040265","message":"","innererror":{"message":"","type":"System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[[Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationServiceFault, Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35]]","stacktrace":" at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.OrganizationSdkServiceInternal.CreateInternal(Entity entity, InvocationContext invocationContext, CallerOriginToken callerOriginToken, WebServiceType serviceType, Boolean checkAdminMode, Dictionary`2 optionalParameters)\r\n at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.OData.CrmODataExecutionContext.CreateOrganizationResponse(Entity entity)\r\n at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.OData.CrmODataServiceDataProvider.CreateEdmEntity(CrmODataExecutionContext context, String edmEntityName, EdmEntityObject entityObject, Boolean isUpsert)\r\n at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.OData.EntityController.PostEntitySetImplementation(String& entitySetName, EdmEntityObject entityObject)\r\n at Microsoft.PowerApps.CoreFramework.ActivityLoggerExtensions.Execute[TResult](ILogger logger, EventId eventId, ActivityType activityType, Func`1 func, IEnumerable`1 additionalCustomProperties)\r\n at Microsoft.Xrm.Telemetry.XrmTelemetryExtensions.Execute[TResult](ILogger logger, XrmTelemetryActivityType activityType, Func`1 func)\r\n at lambda_method(Closure , Object , Object[] )\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ActionExecutor.<>c__DisplayClass10.<GetExecutor>b__9(Object instance, Object[] methodParameters)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ExecuteAsync(HttpControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary`2 arguments, CancellationToken cancellationToken)\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ApiControllerActionInvoker.<InvokeActionAsyncCore>d__0.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Controllers.ActionFilterResult.<ExecuteAsync>d__2.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Dispatcher.HttpControllerDispatcher.<SendAsync>d__1.MoveNext()"}}}

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