Learning SharePoint

What’s new in PowerApps? Microsoft has recently released a few new features in PowerApps. A few of them are in preview and others are already released. What are Named Formulas? PowerApps Named formulas the name is derived from the old school Name Manager that was used in excel. Excel allows you to name tables, cells and so and then refer to them using the name. How to enable Named Formulas? Assuming you have already created an app and you are using the latest version of PowerApps studio. Click on settings on the top bar of the screen.  You need to select Upcoming Features and select Experimental Features option and search with “Name” in top search bar.  You should now see the “Name Formulas” feature, Just enable it. How to use Named Formulas? Named formulas allows us to   Set( SampleTextVariable, “70”); With SampleTextVariable = “70”; You can now refer SampleTextVariable in any screen in the same PowerApp. These formulas can be used in App.Formulas property as of now. 

We have a Microsoft Team created for posting updates for respective Projects. The challenge here was that there are multiple project managers who post updates for multiple projects. MD of our company was looking for a centralized place to see Project manager-wise consolidated updates. We build a Teams Messaging extension to achieve this. Below is how I started. ·          Open Microsoft Teams and add Power Automate App. ·          Click on the Power Automate App and select the “Save a message to OneNote” template. ·          Put in a name for your flow and click on next. ·          Select OneNote that you want to update and the section where the updates are to be added. ·          Click on “Create Flow” button. ·          You will now receive a notification on Power Automate chat bot. ·          It should look something like below. ·          Now you can go to any message and see your solution available as soon as you click on the eclipses icon. ·