Power Apps Ideas

Jeff_Thorpe · ‎03-30-2018

It would be nice to be able to create a SharePoint list PowerApps Custom Form in one site or list (e.g. development) and then be able to move it to another site or list (e,g, production). This would help with development and teting of new and updated forms before they are released to the production. This could also help with the reuse of form designs, so a person isn't always recreating the wheel.

SohailKhan · ‎12-22-2020

The decimal field type only lets you use values between -100 million and 100 million. This is way too small for the data we want to import - any financial reporting solution will find this limit difficult to work work. Please increase the size of this column type to be in the 10s or even 100 billions range.

Jbid · ‎05-15-2017

Please consider adding a feature to get to the appended comment history from a sharpoint list comment filed with append and versioning turned on to appear in a power app card? https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Forum/Append-comments-Field/m-p/34968#M14383

Underdog1987 · ‎07-25-2018

Add MaxDate and MinDate properties to avoid selecting dates out of range. Examples: Avoid selecting dates in the past: Datepicker1.MinDate: Today() Set maximum selectable date to 1 year in the future since today: Datepicker1.MaxDate: DateAdd( Today(), 1, Years ) Attached image shows what it would look like MinDate property 🙂

BrianKnight · ‎08-14-2018

It would be fantastic to have stored procedure access to PowerApps. It's a feature presently blocking a number of customers of ours from implementing PowerApps since much of their logic is in the sprocs already. They don't want to implement Flow for this since they see it as another cog to pay for. This seems like pretty core functionality but there must be some big technical blocker from MS implementing it.

Silverleaf · ‎05-05-2016

For me, exporting a form, or gallery to a PDF would be even more helpful than printing and still allow me to print a final "report" from a form or gallery.

Anonymous · ‎08-18-2017

I have received some feedback from my app users that it is sometimes hard to tell when image or text is clickable. On the desktop version, when you hover over an image the icon remains the same or when you hover a text it changes to the edit text icon, the mouse icon seems to change to hand icon only when hovering over objects like Icons or Controls like Button control. Example 1 The text in the Org Browser by Microsoft says View My Profile, when hovering over it with mouse, the mouse icon changes to select text icon. Example 2 When using images as buttons, the mouse will stay as a cursor and will not change to the hand icon. Example 3 Hovering mouse over the button. It changes to hand icon and it is clear that you can click it. This is not a problem on the Phone since you click with your fingers but it confuses the users on desktop. Would it be possible to make all objects with functions in OnSelect property to have a <a> tag or something similar that it would force the mouse cursor to change into hand?

Anonymous · ‎05-03-2018

Problem The biggest problem with developing PowerApps with Azure SQL Database is that we have to share the SQL Connector with each user of the app. What that means is that each employee can bypass the app by creating their own app and adding this connector to their app (since it is shared). They get the ability to see all the tables and views in the database. Basically, everything there is in the SQL database, on top of that they also get the ability to edit the information in any way they please. This is not an issue for non-confidential information and simple apps. However, we have plans to develop more complex apps with data that should not be seen by everyone who will be using the app. PowerApps is great as we can build custom logic on who sees what. However, since each employee can create a fake app and throw in the SQL connector that was shared with them, this means that all the security and complex data validation built in the app becomes useless. Idea I think the simplest solution would be to make the SQL Connector when sharing it, the user gets “Can use” permission, it would be great if we could give an even lower permission level like “Can use only in this App”. This would make it impossible for them to create fake apps and throw in this SQL Connector to see data they are not supposed to see. OR Another option would be that when user has “Can use” permissions on SQL Connector they would only be allowed to use it where the owner put that SQL Connection, making it impossible for them to drop this connection in their Apps or Flows. Either one of those solutions would make PowerApps a lot more useful for a large number of corporations. This would definitely push PowerApps adoption for more complex systems and bring it above other similar platforms out there.

ashokpershad · ‎07-30-2018

I think there should be functionality to build App from the excel file stored in Sharepoint? I know its possible to make App directly from Sharepoint-List but to make same from excel file stored in Share Point will be more beneficial because excel is used more as compared to Sharepoint - List

MWilliams86 · ‎10-30-2017

Add a scrollable screen control that allows the designer to either set where the scroll bar position is or reset the scrollbar to top. Currently the screen remembers its position when you navigate away from it, then if you navigate back to that screen, the screen may not be reset back to the top of the items to display which is a negative user experience forcing the user to scroll back to the top of the scrollable screen.

DanielAmico · ‎03-27-2018

Hello all, It would be great to have a way to find where a collection was defined (place or action in the app the actually creates the collection via Collect, ClearCollect, etc. - for example in an OnVisible action or OnSelect action). This functionality is available for variables but not for collections. It's a nightmare to find where a given collection was created or is being updated within a app w/ lots of screens, actions, controls. etc. Thanks, Daniel

manivineet · ‎02-16-2020

Currently, the licencing cost for Portals is too much and too convoluted The main issue is that each login into a Portal is charged on Day Pass like structure (24 hours) so if there are 50 users who log in 20 times, that's 1000 logins which are currently priced at $1000 so that's $20 Per Month Per User or even more if users login more often Now, as a comparison SalesForce portals are currently priced at $7.00 per login per month for an individual user for unlimited logins It's cheaper. It's simpler. Can we please get Microsoft to do the same? cause from experience the current cause is prohibitive to some of our clients

vecerpa · ‎05-28-2018

My idea come with error message that is being thrown when trying to get manager of user via Office365 Users connector. More details here - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Office-365-Users-ManagerV2-Error/m-p/119173. As this is expected error that will be delivered by this connector it will be nice to have some option inside PowerApps to catch it and instead of displaying this for user of PA as "nothing to say" message, to diplay something like no manager found and this can lead to some other actions ... P.

Anonymous · ‎02-20-2018

to be able to have different powerapps forms for different content types in sharepoint list. so that all can merge into a single item.

Pieter_Veenstra · ‎08-30-2018

The coding part of PowerApps can contain complex code. It would be great if the code could be simplified by storying the code in libraries that can be maintained from within the PowerApps Studio.

Heddanewman · ‎02-14-2022

Was talking to Julianne Hart today and educators would like a way to tag their ideas specifically to notate when they have a idea for Education and Educators for the Power Apps product.

Anonymous · ‎05-31-2017

HI, It would be good to fetch all the SharePoint groups into power apps based on the SharePoint site its connected with. If we need to check if a user belongs to which SharePoint group then it’s not possible now.

ManishM · ‎11-09-2017

If PA can export collection to a local drive in a CSV or Excel format, it would increase relevance of PA to making tools that use only backend data for reference and Collect result based on user choices. User should then be able to save/export Collection to their local drive. This will let multiple users make local copy of their choices simultaneously. eg - I have an app that builds Bill of Material (BOM) based on user choices. If the BOM could be exported to a local drive, the user can share it further without having to provide app and data permissions. Additionally, multiple users simultaneously can chose any features and get their BOM saved locally.

Anonymous · ‎07-12-2018

Hide the Sharepoint button bar, so that we can instead put our own "Submit" and "Cancel" buttons at the bottom of the form. Creating a custom "Submit" button works fine at the moment, but a custom "Cancel" Button does not seem to work like it should. However it defeats the purpose if users can just use the default save which does not have the custom actions.

Anonymous · ‎05-21-2018

Every time I make a change to the Power App applications for my organization (not changes to the datasources, but the actual app) my users do not receive the updates, even if they close and re-open the application. Instead they have to slide the 3 buttons on the left side of the screen and hit the powerapps refresh button and then relaunch the application. Most users arent aware of the 3 buttons on the left, and this "workflow" is not very intuitative. Forcing the users to uninstall and reinstall is even worse of a work around. Is there any way to force the app to do a full-refresh like there is for refreshing datasources (ie refresh(datasource) ).... maybe something like "RefreshApplication()"? Related to these posts: * https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Force-the-entire-power-app-to-refresh/m-p/117582 * https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/How-do-I-force-an-update-of-my-PowerApp/td-p/34759 * https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/App-screen-doesn-t-refresh-even-after-refresh-datasource/td-p/30567 * https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Apps-are-not-getting-deleted-from-the-Mobile-Player/m-p/33387 * https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Deleted-apps-still-appear-on-mobile-app/m-p/31469

Share your ideas and vote for future features

Move or Copy a SharePoint list PowerApps Custom Form

Increase limits of decimal column type in CDS

Append comments Field

Restrict available dates in Datepicker controls

Calling a Stored Procedure in PowerApps

Export Form to PDF

Changing mouse to hand icon when hovering over objects with OnSelect function

Making SQL Connector Secure

Create App from Excel file stored on SharePoint

Screen Reset/Set Scrollbar Back to Top

How do I find where a Collection is created?

Power Apps Portals Licencing cost is too much

Error handling inside PowerApps (Try-Catch)

SharePoint Content Types - PowerApps integration

An option to create new custom functions in PowerApps in libraries

Create a new tag or category so that educators can tag their ideas specifically in this Power Apps Idea area

get sharepoint groups from sharepoint site in power apps

Export Collection to local drive as CSV or Excel

Hide Default Sharepoint buttons like Save & Cancel

New function: RefreshApplication() to force entire app to reload

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