131 posts tagged with "Low Code"

RGBA builds a color from red, green and blue values plus how opaque it is. Use it when you need an exact color the theme doesn't give you, such as the light yellow behind a warning.

Reset puts an input control back to its Default value and discards whatever the person typed. A text box that shows a saved record should be reset whenever the screen opens; otherwise it can keep old typing.

Select runs another control's OnSelect, as if someone had selected it. Its everyday use is Select(Parent) inside a gallery: a button in a row does whatever the row does.

A list is more useful when each row opens its details. In Power Apps, that takes three settings: make the gallery Selectable, navigate from its OnSelect with the selected row, and give each row a button so keyboard users can open it too.

People open the Career Development Plan app to see what's expected of them. This part builds that screen: My plan lists the competencies for the person's job title, each with its level and a badge saying where their response stands. It also explains how the app asks SharePoint for exactly those items, and nothing more.

Most real conditions have more than one part: this job title and still active, not loading and nothing to show. And is true only when all parts are true; Or is true when any part is.

When a Power Apps formula filters a SharePoint list, there are two ways it can run. Either SharePoint does the filtering and sends back only the matching items, or Power Apps downloads some items and filters them itself. The first is delegation, and it's the only way that works on a big list.

Formulas often need a property of the control they're on, or of the control that holds it. Self is the current control and Parent is its container, so you don't have to type control names, and the formula still works when you copy the control or rename it.

An empty gallery is just blank space: people can't tell whether the app is broken, still loading, or has nothing to show. Put a message in its place that says why it's empty, and what happens next.

While a screen loads its data, show that something is happening. The modern Spinner control is a spinning ring with an optional label; make it visible only while a loading variable is true.