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 It’s a New Year and time to get back to making more videos to help anyone who wants to learn about the various Microsoft products we here at Pragmatic Works train.  I’ve made over 40 different YouTube videos over the past two years, but for this year I wanted to create a structured series that will be dedicated to the Microsoft Power Platform.    Each month I plan on posting at least two videos that will cover various topics dedicated to Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.  Some of the videos will be “one-off” videos while the majority will be continuations of discussion from the prior videos in the series.   I plan on giving you all the resources you will need to follow along.  Whether you start with me from episode 1 or you pick up with me on episode 11, I hope to give you great insights into how to use the programs and start implementing your business solutions.   In this first episode, I am starting wit...

It’s time for another session of building our check-in Power App for my former school.  This is now session 3 of our series. If you are interested in all of the ins and outs of what got us to this point and you want to build the app with check out these two videos first. Video 1 Setting Up Our Power App Environment:  Click Here For Video Video 2 The First Build:  Click Here For 2nd Video In the second session, we learned how to set variables, insert galleries, and make connections to our data. For this session, we will now make some enhancements to our first screen of the app.     Below is a list of items we will be covering: 1.        Insert search boxes. 2.        Write code that will allow our end-user to search through all of the data of a gallery for a specific record or records. 3.        Format our gallery to be more visually appealing. 4.  ...

In this second installment, we will start to build our app.   Now, I will not just guide you click by click of building the app, but more importantly, I will do my best to explain how all the coding and features are working in the background so you can take this knowledge to design an app specific to your needs.   Below is a list of items we will be covering: 1.        Setting colors for text, backgrounds, and images 2.        Setting up variables do to the heavy lifting for us throughout our whole process 3.        Showcase an external website https://imagecolorpicker.com/en/   that helps with color palettes that are aesthetically pleasing to your end-user 4.        Insert images, shapes, and text 5.        Insert galleries that reference our created data sources from our first video The goal of these nex...