Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami 2024

01/02/2024, Miami Dade College
Miami, United States of America

SharePoint, Power Apps, & Canvas App Form Controls: the journey of finding a diamond in the rough

The Canvas App Form Control has been a source of frustration for many across the Power Platform community due to rigid layout options, and general mystery surrounding the order of operations. Users that attempt to customize their SharePoint List and Library forms through the Power Apps integration feature, eventually wind up deleting the Form Control immediately in favor of alternative controls that offer greater flexibility, structure, and ease of use. This GCC-friendly presentation and demo will show how to leverage flexible containers, named formulas, with a smidge of timing, to create dynamic and responsive form controls and applications that work with your data to enhance the end-user experience. Topics covered during this session will include Canvas App Form Controls, Flexible Containers, and Named Formulas; nuances of the Form Control Data Cards, with how and when to leverage them for the best user experience; plus, tips, tricks, and non-documented discoveries for creating responsive form layouts based on user input. By the end attendees should have a better understanding of the nuances of the Canvas App Form Control; know how to leverage flexible containers to create responsive layouts; use Named Formulas to create apps that are quickly updatable; and understand how various data types operate between the form and a data source like SharePoint or Microsoft Lists.