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power apps · intermediate

Elevate Your Power Apps Code: A Guide to Cleaner Formulas and Better Maintenance

Learn how small coding practices—like using descriptive names, flattening conditions, and simplifying logic—can make your apps easier to update and less error-prone.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
copilot studio · intermediate

Five Workflow Capabilities That Make Copilot Studio Agents Truly Enterprise‑Ready

From multi‑branch condition blocks to a built‑in human review step, learn how to build resilient approval processes that combine AI logic with real‑world oversight.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Beyond the Basics: 10 Power Apps Form Techniques You'll Actually Use

Move past the gallery and discover the hidden patterns for validation, navigation, and smart submission handling in your data entry forms.

Narmer Abader · 8 min read
power apps · intermediate

The Secret Admin Toolkit: Overlooked PowerShell Commands for Power Apps

PowerShell unlocks admin capabilities that the Power Platform admin center simply doesn’t offer—from recovering deleted apps to blocking trial licenses. Here’s how to wield them safely.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · beginner

Power Fx Starter Pack: 12 Functions for Everyday App Building

Stop memorizing hundreds of functions. These are the ones that do the heavy lifting. Once you internalize them, you can build most real-world apps from scratch.

Narmer Abader · 12 min read
power apps · intermediate

Beyond Built-in Charts: Using QuickChart for Custom Visuals in Power Apps

Generate 20+ chart types in Power Apps by embedding QuickChart image URLs—add radar, doughnut, gauge, word cloud, and more to your dashboards.

Narmer Abader · 7 min read
power apps · intermediate

Enhance Your Apps with Over 2,000 Free Fluent UI Icons

A practical guide to using Microsoft's free Fluent Design System icons in Power Apps, including an interactive gallery for browsing over 2,000 icons in multiple colors.

Narmer Abader · 3 min read
power apps · intermediate

Constructing Clean Canvas Apps: A Guide to Power Apps Coding Practices

A practical walkthrough of naming conventions, error handling patterns, and performance strategies to keep your canvas apps scalable and maintainable.

Narmer Abader · 3 min read
power automate · intermediate

Structuring Power Automate Flows for Enterprise Success

Core principles for resilient, maintainable, and efficient cloud flows, distilled from real-world implementations.

Narmer Abader · 3 min read
power apps · intermediate

Filtering SharePoint Lists in Power Apps: Practical Examples and Patterns

Learn how to use the Filter function to query SharePoint list data efficiently across text, number, date, choice, lookup, person, and yes/no columns, with delegation insights.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Master Conditional Logic in Power Apps: An Expense Tracker Guide

Explore the true potential of the If function in Power Apps. Through a practical expense approval scenario, learn nested conditions, delegation patterns, and how to choose Switch over IF.

Narmer Abader · 3 min read
power automate · intermediate

From Breaking to Resilient: Three Error-Handling Strategies in Power Automate

Build flows that gracefully handle failures and automatically notify you with run details.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
power apps · intermediate

Reassigning Power Apps Ownership: Three Methods Every Admin Should Know

When the original app owner leaves the company, use Power Automate, PowerShell, or the CoE Starter Kit to transfer ownership without breaking the app.

Narmer Abader · 4 min read
power automate · intermediate

Embedding Images in Power Automate Emails: A Cross-Client Compatibility Guide

Discover the trade-offs between Content-ID, Base64, and the Microsoft Graph API for embedding images in Power Automate emails. This guide covers which method works best for Outlook, Gmail, and more.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
power apps · intermediate

Show Only My Records: Three Ways to Filter a Power Apps Gallery for the Current User

Compare on-the-fly filtering, automated permission management, and list-level security to restrict gallery items to the signed-in user.

Narmer Abader · 8 min read
power automate · intermediate

How to Bypass the 'File Is Locked' Error When Using Excel and SharePoint in Power Automate

When a flow reads an Excel table and then updates SharePoint file properties, the file remains locked. Here are four independent approaches to work around it—no magic, just smart automation design.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Five Gallery Upgrades That Make Your Power Apps Pop

Transform a plain data list into a rich visual dashboard using these straightforward design techniques—no graphic design experience required.

Narmer Abader · 7 min read
power automate · intermediate

Power Automate Select Action: Beyond Basic Column Picking – 5 Advanced Transformations

Transform arrays like a pro: add computed columns, row numbers, convert data types, and extract flat value lists using the Select action's hidden capabilities.

Narmer Abader · 4 min read
power apps · intermediate

Insights from Developing a Word Puzzle Game in Power Apps

Learn five powerful techniques—from single-screen control to offline data persistence—by following how I built an interactive word puzzle game.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Named Formulas in Power Apps: Streamlining Logic and Configuration

Use Power Apps named formulas to create reusable, reactive logic that centralizes data access, user context, and app settings.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
power apps · intermediate

Hidden Gems: 7 Overlooked Power Apps Functions That Solve Real Problems

Move beyond the basics with seven Power Apps functions that often get ignored—learn how they can simplify your formulas, improve performance, and unlock new possibilities.

Narmer Abader · 7 min read
power platform admin · intermediate

Top 7 Power Platform Environment Setup Blunders (And How to Fix Them)

One wrong click in the admin center can wipe months of work or expose sensitive data to the entire tenant. Here's how to fortify your environments from the start.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
power apps · intermediate

Visual Data Alerts in Power Apps Galleries

Apply colours, emojis, and conditional formatting to highlight important data in your gallery rows.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
power apps · intermediate

Mastering Patch in Power Apps: Create, Update, and Upsert Records

Learn how to use the Patch function for single and batch operations, with a real-world project tasks example.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
power platform admin · intermediate

Securing Your Power Platform Tenancy: A DLP Policy Playbook

Establish strong data loss prevention policies across your environments with these eight governance principles.

Narmer Abader · 5 min read
power apps · intermediate

Build Custom Map Experiences in Power Apps

Create engaging map interfaces in your canvas apps with data‑driven pins, clustering, and satellite view toggles.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Streamlining External User Access to Power Apps with Azure AD Security Groups

A practical guide to granting guest users from external organizations access to your Power Apps, using Azure Active Directory groups for simplified licensing and permissions management.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Power Apps Containers Unplugged: Designing Without the Drag-and-Drop Hassle

Stop fighting with X and Y coordinates. Learn how vertical, horizontal, and overlay containers can give you pixel-perfect layouts in minutes.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Implementing a Power Platform Service Principal for Reliable Automation

Leverage an Azure AD application to execute flows with elevated permissions and no reliance on individual user accounts.

Narmer Abader · 6 min read
power apps · intermediate

Multi-Step Data Entry Forms in Power Apps

Break long forms into manageable screens using variables and Patch to submit data across pages.

Narmer Abader · 10 min read
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