Power Apps Ideas - Page 2

Migrated_User · ‎04-26-2016

Provide some sort of cache to allow offline input and let it sync afterwards Kris Buntinx shared this idea · February 25, 2016

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

Anonymous · ‎02-22-2018

Problem: One of the biggest issues in PowerApps right now is that we cannot protect our data. If we connect any data source to PowerApps (Excel, SharePoint List, SQL Server Connection) it has to be shared with all users for them to be able to use the app. This creates a problem where user has access directly to data source and can bypass the app to do direct modifications to the data source as well as see information not meant to be seen by them. If your app was built to limit users access to some data, for example: Showing users only their vacation requests and hiding other user vacations Showing user only their travel request and hiding other user travels That means that all users can see all data as well as they can modify it without any trace. In case of Excel file on OneDrive we need to give users access to this file, that means that user can just go on OneDrive and find the excel file and edit it. In case of SharePoint List, that means that user needs to have Edit rights to that list and can just find it on the SharePoint Site and go in and edit. In case of SQL Server Connection, that means that user can open PowerApps, click create new app, open Data Sources and the shared SQL connection will be there and he can connect to it. This will allow the user to see all tables in that SQL connection with edit rights. Idea: I believe the best way to fix it, and this will allow PowerApps to become truly powerful tool to replace most of organization applications is to give the App itself write rights to the Excel sheets, SharePoint lists or SQL Connection and not the user. This way the user will have no access to the files, SharePoint List or SQL Connection and the only way to interact with data will be through the App.

Larsen1000 · ‎10-06-2016

Enable 2D scanning of barcodes.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

CRM 2013 introduces a great feature of Composite Fields (e.g., Full Name, Address). However, the fields that appear in this composite field are hard coded and not editable. It would be ideal if system customizers could edit these composite fields similarly to how they edit other forms within customizations.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

When will the Developer Toolkit be available for CRM 2015/Visual Studio 2013?

dnaedwards · ‎02-04-2019

Expose Dynamics 365 / SharePoint Document Management through the Portal. We would like the ability to add and display documents in the Portal that have been uploaded to Dynamics 365 and saved to SharePoint using SharePoint Document Management in Dynamics 365.

lifelongjourney · ‎12-28-2016

Full support for reading and writing to Sharepoint Choice fields, including ones with multiple selections enabled, is essential for PowerApps to be a viable platform. Upvote if you agree.

Superman · ‎02-27-2017

Please give ability to use share point folders as data storage. One drive for business is ok, but for sharing files with others, sharepoint folders would be ace.

MatthieuMegaly · ‎05-11-2016

OOT PowerApps has some themes but it's impossible to adapt the colors or to create one.. that could be a good idea

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Customizing a form has been made a lot easier in 2011, but we still need to export the RibbonDiffXml and manually import it- which is a tedious process. Can we have graphical editing for form ribbons as well, and then add the 'OnClick' button for the ribbon element using the UI itself? Thanks in advance!!

ProjectPowerBI · ‎06-14-2016

It'd be nice to have a connector to SAP to mash financial data with Project Data

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Several of my clients assume that CRM Online sandbox instances don't require a portal license. This is understandable: users do not need additional licenses to access sandboxes and there is no guidance given in the Pricing and Licensing Guide (May 2016). Some Microsoft representatives suggest that customers do need to purchase portal licenses for sandboxes, but I can't find any guidance to confirm this. Ideally, there would be a low cost CRM portals sandbox license given that sandbox portals are likely to be much less visited and used and therefore require far fewer resources than a production portal.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Field Level Security is great in CRM 2011, but it would be great to have it available on system fields as well.

skylitedave · ‎03-12-2018

Want the ability to add an iframe to a powerapp screen. Limitless uses for this requested capability.... Seems lke a natural control to add to the Insert>Media menu. Thx!

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?

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

There exists a date criteria for "Older than X Months". There should additionally be criteria for Days as well.

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.

Migrated_User · ‎04-26-2016

Using powerapp in mobile phone, I can capture photos with the camera, but I can't upload to a document library in SharePoint Online. Roy Kim shared this idea · Apr 22, 2016 ·

opax · ‎07-25-2016

Hi, I've been enjoying PowerApps a lot. I come with a background of custom applications, SharePoint customizations, as well as some InfoPath Forms. The general trend for years has been in responsive design. This means that you design your applications to work with variety of different devices, instead of targeting to a single device type. InfoPath has never has this, it has been awful at different devices. So with PowerApps I assumed that Responsive Design is the natural course, and I was wrong. Althought PowerApps is build Mobile First (and Cloud First), it is not taking Responsive Design as its design principleas I assumed. I would like to build Apps that work on any device with ease, but with current PowerApps design I'm stick with X, Y, Width, Height attributes of all the controls on the application. As far as I know, there is nothing responsive in PowerApps, and I'm deeply worried how will this affect the usability of the applications. The responsive design would be possible to achieve in PowerApps relatively easily. Instead of string X, Y, Width, Height attributes, you just drop your controls into HTML flow. As an example, look this: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/building-responsive-ui-with-bootstrap-8378?l=BDfMAHIz_3004984382 Anyway, I do hope that PowerApps would add Responsive Design as alternative to current fixed designs availabe. Cheers, Olli

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Offline mode

Append comments Field

Removing user ability to access data source without using the app

QR-code scanning

CRM2013: Allow Composite Fields to be Customized

Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit for CRM 2015/Visual Studio 2013

Dynamics 365, SharePoint Document Management integration with the Portal

Full support for Sharepoint Choice fields

Sharepoint Folder as datasource

Custom themes

UI Tool for modifying Ribbons while customizing entity form

Connector to SAP

CRM portals sandbox license

CRM 2011 Field Security

Add an iFrame control to Insert>Media

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

Add "Older than X Days" in Date Criteria

Making SQL Connector Secure

Upload a picture captured through PowerApp to a sharepoint online document library

Responsive Design

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