Power Apps Ideas

KaareM · ‎06-06-2019

Hi. Currently one of the main issues we have with customers and using the very friendly PowerApps interface is that they are used to being able to drag'n'drop elements in all other software/games. Which of course leaves them a bit disapointed when we can't provide them with this functionality in any way. A use case if often when something is placed on a timeline and they want to move this element in time. It would be a huge advantage if there was some way to interact with element in a e.g. a timephased area. By dragging the element the start/finish date should also be changed accordingly.

Pieter_Veenstra · ‎04-10-2019

Within PowerApps there is one control ( attachements in forms) thsat acceptsthe drag and drop of documents. This means that when you want to deliver drag and drop fucntionality in a PowerApp you would have to create a temporary list and a form that only displays the attachment field. Then trigger a flow on this attachment's list item. This is not a great UX. Also the attachment control doesn't give you much flexibility as to the look and feel of the control. Can we have a drag and drop control added to PowerApps?

nathanpsmith · ‎05-09-2019

Improve the button control by adding the ability to display an icon alongside the button text. This is a VERY common use-case. For example: Currently the only way to accomplish this is to create an empty button with reduced opacity and place the icon and text behind it. Needless to say, this is less-than-ideal. Additionally, the user should have the option to align the icon to the left, right, top or bottom of the button text.

Fleur · ‎04-12-2019

I would like to be able to select multiple controls in different datacards and bulk edit the properties. I am currently creating apps from SharePoint using SharePoint integration. The form is created with all the datacards far too big for normal screen use and I need to go through every card and resize every input control. This takes such a long time because you are not able to select multiple controls across multiple datacards.

bbar0121 · ‎08-05-2019

Add the ability to send a chat message from PowerApps to an individual in Microsoft Teams. The Skype connector for PowerApps has the ability to send a message directly to a user but since Skype is going away, when is this going to be available for Microsoft Teams? I understand there is a way to do it with Microsoft Flow but this adds an extra unecessary step. Sending a message to a channel is available and I do use that but working in a healthcare environment there are times when sending a chat message directly to someone is needed for privacy. Also, the ability to mark as urgent is needed so that the notification doesn't stop until the message is read.

Curaxu · ‎06-12-2019

Something that is really frustrating is when you copy something from one screen and try paste it in another, but for some reason it doesn't paste it at the same co-ordinates, it offsets them. Is there anyway to change it, or give another paste option/shortcut to paste at the same co-ordinates you copied the original element from, because that would've saved me so much time 🙂

kayleegoose · ‎09-17-2019

I know that you can get around this currently by pasting a gallery into a data card, but I've found that often the galleries don't display information when they're published with this method. When I create a floating gallery outside of a data card on the form (which looks awful) with the same Items property, it displays correctly. My specific situation is that I'm customizing a SharePoint form and want to display information in a gallery on the form, specifically on a part of the form that you have to scroll down to (sometimes I can use galleries at the top of forms, then hide them before scrolling is necessary). I'm not sure how else to place a gallery on the form and keep it in line with the other data cards. There should be a way for the galleries to be placed within the forms, act like data cards re: allignment, and function as expected.

dsegoviano · ‎09-11-2019

being able to access shared calendars in powerapps is a highly requested feature for my use of an internal communication app

SergioGiusti · ‎06-26-2018

Can we have the ability to add shadows to controls, i.e. onto text, button, icons, etc.

svenvu · ‎06-08-2019

Galleries are a fundamental building block for PowerApps. One of the most untuitive things to do is pointing at a gallery item with the mouse. However nothing happens, the background of the item is not highlighted, the colors of the item doesn't change,... so you really have to look very good where the mousepointer is to know where you're at. There is however a native property for table items "HoverColor" and "HoverFill" that could fill this gap in the gallery experience. Could you please add these properties to the gallery so we can create a more user friendly and interactive experience?

Office365Master · ‎04-09-2019

With the recent release of V2 of the Graph APIs, it is now possible to view thumbnail images of content stored in SharePoint document libraries within PowerApps (thank you!). Equally this functionality is available regardless of the platform apps may have been launched on (i.e. both within the context of a web browsers and equally when launched from the native PowerApps mobile client apps). Noteworthy references pertaining to this new functionality (including two of my own blogs subsequenty posted): Displaying file thumbnails from a SharePoint library in PowerApps Leveraging Graph APIs in PowerApps & Flow – Photos SharePoint-Powered Thumbnails Have Arrived! Given however that the overwhelming guidance for users insofar as uploading images to SharePoint(*currently at least) is to do so leveraging the Attachment control for SharePoint Lists data sources, how viable would it be to equally expose a ThumbnailUrl property for SharePoint List Item attachments?

longer_n · ‎05-31-2019

Currently available barcode scanners cannot be run on Windows tablets or laptops. To scan 2D barcodes with a laptop PC camera or a camera connected via USB, it is desirable to be able to scan on a Windows PC. The web browser accessible camera feature is also getting better, so it's probably the time to support barcode scanning in a web browser. If web browser support is absolutely difficult, support for the PowerApps app on Windows Store alone is also fine. The old web barcode scanner, supported as experimental features, cannot read 2D codes (e.g. QR-Code). Because of this, this does not meet my hope.

alaugMSFT · ‎10-23-2019

Azure Active Directory's conditional access allows setting multifactor authentication (MFA) on all of PowerApps. It would be nice to configure MFA on some but not all PowerApps.

powerappsfan · ‎04-30-2019

Currently when creating an app, there's only 2 options: Tablet & Mobile. However, in the modern world there's so many different types of screen sizes and form factors (desktops, Surface Hub, laptops/tablets of various sizes, phones/phablets, smaller IoT screens, etc.). I think the 'Tablet' and 'Phone' layout options are an outdated concept and should be replaced with 'Responsive Layout', or even better, just remove those options all together and have responsive layout as default for all apps. And instead have various standard screen sizes as 'views' to preview and customize the app for various sizes and have them automatically scale/adjust to those sizes. Most websites and UWP/PWA apps have already moved in this direction years ago, and it's pretty much standard now to ensure end-users get the best experience regardless of what device they are on. This would also be great for those those who want to easily transition from InfoPath to PowerApps and not be confused by the current limited layout options.

maverick17 · ‎04-25-2019

Looking for the ability to sort the option sets we create in CDS. This way if we add options later, they can be sorted and not always appear as the last option.

FredericForest · ‎09-14-2019

I know we can reference the current (or any other) control by typing its own name. Aka : BorderColor = <CurrentControlName>.FillColor. This has been documented here : https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/Self-reference-named-operator-for-controls/idi-p/10226 But... as our naming convention become more sophisticated, it'd be great to have a "Me" shorthand (like "Parent") to refere to the current control. Nothing world-shattering, just something nice to make the code cleaner. BorderColor = lblFirstName_GalUser_ScRequestLeave.FillColor vs BorderColor = Me.FillColor @Audrie-MSFT @Steelman70

mhasan · ‎07-02-2019

Allow developers to a tooltip text when hovering over an item in a dropdown list i.e. I may have a person's name in the list but when I hover over an item I may want to display additional information such as job title or address for example. This gives the user the opportunity to make a decision to select this item or to ignore and explore other items in the list. Thanks

dcbrown · ‎06-16-2019

It appears that, although you can set different fields to be available for sorting, the default is always "Modified On" when you go into a dashboard. Please make it possible to set a permanent default value for each tile. Ref: "The default sort is always set on the Modified On field." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/customize/configure-interactive-experience-dashboards#configure-sortable-fields

insenguptar · ‎05-06-2019

On hovering/clicking of buttons in powerapps form, the mouse pointer changes to 'hand cursor' in preview of the form. When the app is published, the hand cursor is never shown on hover/click of a button. Please keep an option to change the mouse pointer to hand cursor on hover/click of a button in a published powerapps form.

svenvu · ‎06-10-2019

Hi A very common scenario is that a user needs to filter a gallery/table/... based on a combobox but also needs to remove the filter or select all items in the dropdownlist. To (de)select all items is impossible with the current combobox and is a real limitation for a user friendly experience. Users expect the behaviour of Power BI where you can multiselect items: When no items are selected, everything is shown in the report. In PowerApps however, nothing is shown in the gallery = inconsistent behaviour Power BI vs PowerApps In Power BI there is an option to add a "Select all" in the dropdownlist which makes it possible to deselect or select all items with 1 or 2 clicks In Power BI the state of the selected and unselected items are shown by a checkbox in front of each item in the combobox which makes it very intuitive Please add this behaviour or add a custom combobox with this behaviour so we can create an integrated experience across the Power Platform. To select all or deselect all is in my opinion a standard functionality.

Share your ideas and vote for future features

Drag and drop functionality - Timephased

Drag and Drop of documents in PowerApps

Buttons w/Embedded Icons

Select multiple DataCards to Bulk edit DataCard and Input Control properties

Microsoft Teams Chat message without Microsoft Flow

Paste In Place

Support placing a gallery in a data card

Shared/Group Calendar functionality

Shadows

HoverColor and HoverFill for Galleries

View thumbnail images of List Item Attachments on mobile devices

Improved 2D barcode scanner for Windows PC

Configure multi-factor authentication (MFA) on select PowerApps

Create a 'Responsive Layout' and make it default in PowerApps

Sort Multi Select Option Set in combo-box from CDS

Me. control keyword for self-reference

Show tooltip in dropdown when hovering over an item in the list

Permanent default sort for Dynamics 365 interactive dashboards

Buttons in powerapps form should have an option to change to hand cursor

Select all/unselect all functionality in combobox

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