218 posts tagged with "Power Apps"

User() gives you a name and an email, but not a job title, department or first name. For those, the Office 365 Users connector has Get my profile (V2), called Office365Users.MyProfileV2() in Power Apps. Here's how to call it, how to ask for only the fields you need, and where to keep the result.

User() tells a canvas app who's using it: their full name, email address, Microsoft Entra object ID and photo. It needs no connector and no setup, which makes it the quickest way to greet someone or fill in "requested by". Here's what each part returns, as seen in Studio, and what User() can't tell you.

A responsive canvas app should work on a phone as well as on a laptop, but you don't need a phone to check. Power Apps Studio can show your app at common phone and tablet sizes, and the canvas itself can switch between four widths while you edit. Testing at a small size early catches layout problems that a wide monitor hides.

While you build, you'll want to use the app the way its users will: select buttons, read the screens, and watch formulas work. Preview runs the app right inside Power Apps Studio, with your real data, without publishing or saving anything. Here's how to open it, close it, and test single controls without it.

Every control in a canvas app has a Visible property. Set it to a formula that's true or false, and the control appears or disappears as the formula changes. It's how you show a My team button only to managers, or a message only when something is missing.

An icon next to a button's text helps people find the right button at a glance. The modern Power Apps Button has an Icon property built in, so you don't need a separate icon control. Here's how to pick one, where to put it, and how to handle buttons that show only an icon.

Buttons are how people do things in a canvas app: open a screen, save a record, send a request. The modern Button control follows your app's theme and works with keyboards and screen readers out of the box. Here's how to add one and set it up.

The modern Avatar control shows a person as a round picture, or as their initials when there's no picture. Out of the box it shows the signed-in user, which makes it an easy way to personalise a home screen. It also ships with an Available presence badge you probably don't want. Here's how to add it and set it up properly.

The Text control is the modern way to show words on a canvas app screen: a heading, a message, or the result of a formula, such as the signed-in person's name. It's the modern replacement for the classic Label. Here's how to add one, fill it with a formula, and make it grow when the text is long.

Screen reader users often jump from heading to heading to understand a page. In a canvas app, text only counts as a heading if you mark it as one, and the only control that can do that is the classic Text label, through its Role property. Here's how to add one, even in an app built with modern controls.