Slide deck of the session I presented at Power Saturday in Paris.

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Power
Saturday
Spice Up your SharePoint list with PowerApps Forms
Rebekka Aalbers

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14 et 15 juin 2019, Paris
Power
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5. Rebekka
Aalbers
Technology Consultant

6. Power User
Familiar with Modern Lists
A little or no experience with
PowerApps
Not afraid to work with formulas

7. Agenda
SharePoint list forms options
• PowerApps forms for SharePoint
• PowerApps building blocks
• Working with formulas
What is PowerApps?
• How to create a PowerApps form
• How to modify a PowerApps form
• Administration
DEMO
• Limitations
• Tips
• Questions
Wrap up

8. SharePoint List forms
options

9. Classic list
Form options
• Default forms
• InfoPath forms
• SharePoint designer forms
• Third party options
• Custom developed forms

10. Modern list
Form options
• Default forms
• InfoPath forms
• SharePoint designer forms
• Third party options
• Custom developed forms
• Custom forms met PowerApps

11. Reasons to change the form
Showing or hiding fields based on conditions
Making fields optional or required based on
conditions
You do not like the default lay out
You want to show data from other sources in
the forms.
…

14.  Truly WYSIWYG – full control
over user experience, use it as
you build it
 Create app logic with familiar
Excel-like expressions
 Mash up data from multiple
sources right at the app level
Easy Authoring

15. Cloud and on-premises connectivity
 Built-in connectivity to 200+ cloud
services, files, databases, web APIs,
etc.
 Seamless hybrid connectivity to on-
premises systems via the On-
Premises Data Gateway
 Build custom connectors for
everyone to leverage

16. Customize, extend, and build all the apps you need
Seamless Dynamics 365, Office 365, and Azure integration along with connectors to more than 200 data sources
Immersive, end-to-end
solutions

17. Your list form =
a PowerApps
canvas app
running in the
context of the
SharePoint-list

18. Why use a PowerApps
form instead of a stand
alone PowerApp?

19. Is your starting point a
SharePoint list?
Do you like the list functionality?
Why rebuild?!

20. What this means
Show or hide fields or make read only based on logic
Multi screen forms with step-wise guidence to enter
data
Multimedia capabilities in your form
Conditional formatting
Get data from multiple sources
And more…

21. Building
blocks
Controls
UI Building blocks
Text input
Label
Media
Forms
Buttons
…
Properties
Update working of
control
Text formatting
Color
Size & Position
Value
Actions
…
Formulas
Building your logic
Excel like
Filter()
Search()
SubmitForm()
Navigate()
…

22. PowerApps
Syntax
Function(property, property, …);
Function (property, property,…)

23. Example
Region/ Language code Formula
en-US Set( Number , 0.5 ) ;
Navigate( Screen2, Fade )
fr-FR
nl-NL
Set( Number ; 0,5 ) ;;
Navigate( Screen2 ; Fade )

25. Limits & Bounderies

26. •No acces (YET!) to
PowerApps form for guest
users
•Delegation limitations
•No easy export of
PowerApps forms
•Does not work from within
the SharePoint mobile
app.
•…

27. Tips

28. Use naming format for
controls, variables and
collections
Example
3 lettercode representing control or datatype +
description + screen
Control codes:
• Gallery > gal
• Textbox > txt
• Label > lbl
• Image > img
• …
Data in memory codes:
• Local/Context variable > loc
• Global variable > glb
• Collection > col

29. Copy controls +
configuration between
forms in design mode

30. Store (versioning) info
about your form in a
hidden screen

31. Do not forget!
Language/
Region code
Decimal
delimiter
Properties in
function
delimiter
Functions in
formula
delimiter
en-US . , ;
de-DE
nl-NL
, ; ;;

32. Resources
Microsoft documentation about list
forms with PowerApps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
US/powerapps/maker/canvas-
apps/customize-list-form
PowerApps formula and
control reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
US/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/formula-reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
US/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/reference-properties
PowerApps community
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Pow
erApps-Community/ct-p/PowerApps1
PowerApps & Flow space in the
SharePoint Community on the
Microsoft Tech Community site
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/P
owerApps-Flow/bd-p/PowerAppFlow
Documentation of all available
connectors for PowerApps, Microsoft
Flow and Logic Apps.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/connectors/
Blog describing how to export and
import a PowerApps form to a
different list.
https://poszytek.eu/en/microsoft-
en/office-365-en/powerapps-en/importing-
powerapps-package-as-a-sharepoint-list-
form/

33. BE CREATIVE!

34. Contact me
Email
rebekka.aalbers@outlook.com
Twitter
@RebekkaAalbers
Blog
https://powersweet.blog

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Merci!