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Read more about the article Managing Pending Approval Requests in Power Automate
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Managing Pending Approval Requests in Power Automate

Who still hasn't approved?! A simple question that's not so easy to answer when it comes to using Power Automate Approvals. If you have pending approvals — especially those with multiple approvers where all must approve — there's really no good out-of-the-box way to obtain this information. Sure, there are workarounds, such as tracking approvals in a custom list and syncing it with Power Automate, but this carries the risk of the data becoming out of sync with the "source of truth" in the Dataverse Approvals table. Therefore I wanted to come up with a solution that will:…

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September 17, 2026
Read more about the article Application Showcase: A Pokémon Pokédex App built on PowerApps
PowerApps Canvas / PowerShell / SharePoint / Uncategorized

Application Showcase: A Pokémon Pokédex App built on PowerApps

Gotta catch em’ all! Of course, that’s the legendary tag line from the Pokémon series I fondly grew up with. As a Power Platform developer, I thought: why not combine these by building a Pokédex app! A Pokédex is like an encyclopedia about Pokémon. It tracks all kinds of data points about the over 1000 Pokemon in the Pokémon universe. This dataset's rich detail and hierarchical structure make it fantastic for learning to build on in PowerApps. App Goals Use a 3rd party API (PokeAPI) to cache Pokémon information into SharePoint Build a fully responsive Canvas App that…

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July 30, 2026
Read more about the article Fetch SharePoint List Item Version History in PowerApps
Power Automate / PowerApps Canvas / SharePoint

Fetch SharePoint List Item Version History in PowerApps

This article will walk you through two different options for retrieving SharePoint Item Version History in Power Apps using Power Automate. Both solutions are designed to be ALM-friendly and avoid using Premium Connectors. If you’re not familiar with SharePoint Item Version History, you can access it by selecting the context menu for a list item and choosing Version History. Context Menu to access SharePoint item version history The modern modal dialog of a item's version history For this example, I have a simple SharePoint list consisting of Financial Validation events. These events are managed out of a Canvas…

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May 21, 2026
Read more about the article Creating a Process Bar Component in Canvas Apps
PowerApps Canvas

Creating a Process Bar Component in Canvas Apps

As a busy user, I appreciate being able to see a visual indicator of the stage/status of an item at a glance. Model-Driven Applications, have Business Process Flows which include a nice visual control, which displays a process bar of the current stage. The process bar in a Model Driven App This led me to wonder: could I create something similar on the Canvas App side? In this post, I’ll demo my custom reusable component that visually represents stages in a Canvas App. The custom canvas app component built Example: Ordering Process Consider an example where you are…

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March 13, 2026
Read more about the article Collect External Responses in Dataverse Using Microsoft Forms
Dataverse / Microsoft Forms / Power Automate / PowerApps Canvas

Collect External Responses in Dataverse Using Microsoft Forms

A common requirement is the need to collect responses from users outside of your organization. Anyone who's spent a good deal of time within Power Platform knows this can quickly turn into a very complex task! I don't want to license external users and I don't want to build a Power Page to collect some simple form responses! Surely there's got a be a simpler way? Well, with the help of the pre-filled URL feature in Microsoft Forms, and a little Power Automate, there is! Scenario: Event Response Submissions In this example, I'm gathering Power Platform Conference Event…

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January 6, 2026
Read more about the article PowerApps Week of Selector Component
PowerApps Canvas

PowerApps Week of Selector Component

Have you ever needed to filter data based on the week of? To use a select-able dropdown, you first need to figure out the week start date based on the current date, week end, build a dynamic collection, filter, date add, sequence… yada yada, blah blah! Instead of doing all that in multiple apps, why not build one reusable component that handles all that tricky date calculation logic? That’s exactly what we’ll cover in today’s post. Component Goals Develop a reusable component that displays the week of start and end date in a dropdown Allow the user to…

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November 12, 2025
Read more about the article PowerApps Modern Buttons Icon Name Cheat Sheet
PowerApps Canvas

PowerApps Modern Buttons Icon Name Cheat Sheet

Modern Controls in PowerApps Canvas Apps have been with us for a few years now. And while they are still in preview at the time of this post, some controls are more “mature” than others from my experience. One of these is the button control. Unlike the classic button control, the modern one can include an icon within the button making for a better visual experience to the end-user. Indeed, there are 73 modern button icons to choose from. Where I had some challenges however, is that I wanted to know all the icon names so I can…

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October 8, 2025