Office Hours Questions

Following are questions that have been answered in our monthly office hours:

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Developers new to a low-code approach?

How to navigate Pro Developers used to .Net solutions to understand the low code approach of power platform and a more agile approach?

How to integrate calendars and tasks?

How to change the ownership from user/team on a table to Business unit?

Using free tools instead of M365

Service Account workaround?

Loop — are custom templates available?

Service Principals vs. Service Accounts?

When updating an item on SharePoint list, is there a way to avoid having to put in existing values for choice columns that aren't being updated?

What is the best way to set up tables for a Model Driven App reoccurring task?

How do you add the timespan to Teams Meeting?

How to use M365 for project development?

How to use M365 for project development?

What is the best way to handle attachments (i.e. PDF or images) within SharePoint lists or other means like One Drive?

What are the benefits of using parent / child flows?

Slack or Teams?

Asana in comparison to Slack and Teams?

How can I do a 'For each' Loop in Canvas apps? The ForAll() function isn't iterating properly.

Can I rename a file in Power Apps to rename a file attachment in SharePoint?

Can I filter out the current user, user's supervisor, and direct reports when using O365 Groups connector to get users?

Can a bot prompt a user to fill out a form, and then e-mail the submission?

Can Bulb Digital make an app for me?

How do you join the room data for the Book A Room App?

Modern Calendar View - Will the calendar dynamically update when new events are added to the list?

Can you distinguish between Portals in Power Apps (standalone) and Power Apps for Teams?

How can I integrate an existing help desk app with one we want to manage in SharePoint/Power Apps?

Can the Asset Management Power App Template be updated to support check-in and check-out of assets?

Help Desk App - I’m trying to grant myself admin permissions, but I keep getting an error message?

How can I change the view of a calendar that has been migrated from classic to modern SharePoint?

How can I embed a dashboard in my Canvas App?

How can I calculate a score based on SharePoint form inputs?

I want to create a ticketing system that registers inbox emails as tickets, and when dragged to another folder are registered as closed.

Can I use one of the Microsoft Project tools to view all MS Project types?

Could you explain the 5000 item limit for SharePoint Libraries and Lists?

Dataverse Subscription - How do I know if our tier of service can use Dataverse or Power Apps Portals?

Can I use a Gallery in Power apps to display items from a list with 100k rows without performance issues if I manage delegation properly?

How can citizen developers shake the connotation of being shadow IT?

Can you help with capturing name/contact info using Microsoft Form and capturing input in a SharePoint List?

Do you prefer one screen or multiple screen Power Apps? Or is it dependent on another factor, such as number/size of data sources loading each screen?

I am having an issue with my flow creating a SharePoint item from an MS Form. The dynamic content for Title and Name fields were missing. Is this because I set up the SharePoint columns wrong?

Expiring access tokens with a custom connector - Azure Functions?

Can I connect to two Azure tenants from a Power App?

Can you associate and project in Project for the Web with an existing Group or Team?

Can MS Power Virtual Agents initiate interaction, like "Hi, can I help you?"

How do I set myself as an administrator for the Help Desk app?

How do I deal with a flow that is now spamming people in my organization?

How does Matt really feel about Stored Procedures?

How do I notify external users when something happens in a Teams channel that they're invited to?

How can you leverage Office 365 resources for planning and project management?

How do I lock down my environment so that I can protect my content from being downloaded or shared outside my organization?

How can I quickly rename (find/replace) an incorrect data source reference in my Canvas App?

How do I connect the Help Desk app to my SharePoint list data?

How do I troubleshoot a runtime error in a Canvas App?

How do I deal with errors coming from Office365Users.UserPhotoMetadata() in Power Apps?

How do I set a Canvas App Gallery item template to display 4 items in a 2x2 grid layout?

How should I develop in the Power Platform today if I don’t have my final environment set up yet?

How do I change username to email in the sign-in page for a power apps portal?

How can I stop users from having direct access to SharePoint list data, but still let them create and view the data from a Canvas App?

How do I build an app that redirects the user based on their permission/role?

How should I configure a Leave Request app that displays when other people have already requested leave?

How do I update a multi-select choice field using a Power Apps Patch?

How do you identify executive sponsors for Power Platform adoption?

How do you deal with putting personal identifiable data in SharePoint or Power Apps?

How much customization should we do in O365 given Microsoft is changing things all the time?

How do I update all of the records from one data source based on data from a different data source (eg. updating a field in a SharePoint List based on data from a different SharePoint List)?

How can I streamline data collection for my employee onboarding process?

Is there a way I can deep link between a canvas app and model-driven app, but have a way to go “back” to where I was in the canvas app?

Is there a way to create a SharePoint page that will accept user input, parse an XML doc, calculate something and return a result to the user?

In terms of Power Automate, is there a way to search a pdf attachment for keywords to assign meta tags?

I passed MB-910. Now how do I become proficient with Power Apps?

I want to get aggregate counts for data from a list, grouped by some field in that list, into a collection in a Canvas App.

Is there a way to branch the choice column in a SharePoint list?

If you do a get items action and you want the top record, is there a way to prevent the apply to each when doing an update action on the get item action?

How to get senior management to buy into investing in technology?

Is it best to capture data in Microsoft Forms or SharePoint List and Libraries?

Is it possible to create a deep link to a screen in a customized form that gets sent from Power Apps/Power Automate?

We have people submitting a form, and I already have a SharePoint list created. Is there an easy way for me to get all of these responses from the form into the SharePoint list?

Is there a way to automatically delete Microsoft Forms responses?

How should we tackle migrating from SMB shares to a SharePoint Library? Especially with customer set up with a lot of permissions?

I have intermittent issues when submitting data to a SharePoint list using a Canvas app where my data is kept in a hidden form. Is there a better way?

Is there a way to get data from planner, as we do from project on the web for reporting purposes?

Is there a way to warn the user the form (in SharePoint) has been changed before they exit?

I'm unable to log in as Admin to the Help Desk app. How do I fix it?

I have an excel online file within One Drive with a table and I want to trigger it when someone updates this table. My problem is that besides when someone makes any change, it triggers when the excel online file reloads, so I get triggered more than once.

Is component importing/exporting in Power Apps deprecated?

Is there a way to export the Word templates so we can bring over the data to a SharePoint online list (using columns to match the fields in the Word template)?

Is there an issue with putting everything in the OnStart module of PowerApps?

I'm trying to configure the Help Desk app for my organization and point it at my list of Tickets. How do I do this?

SharePoint Forms - Can I create rules on the form? Also can the user review their data entry?

Matt & Mike, what upcoming Power Platform / SharePoint features are you excited about?

I work in a factory and would like to share some videos with all employees. However, not everyone has an email. People don’t have a Microsoft account, can they watch it?

My SharePoint multi-choice column isn't working properly in Power App unless configured to allow a user to add new choices.

Can you help with saving files uploaded from Forms as attachments to SharePoint List items?

Is there any way to call an API (http) directly from a Power App? Can we use a Power App in offline mode to connect to a SQL data source?

For the calendar icon in power apps, is there a way to change the background color? Not the icon background color in the advanced properties but the color of the background when you select the date. Is there a way to change it besides using the theme to change it?

What is your experience with scalable forms? How difficult is it to build a form that scales to fit different resolutions? Do i have to go in and edit the x and y of every control/object on the page?

Processing JSON for Power Apps from a custom connector - Azure Functions?

Should I use a Flow if I want a Canvas App to interact with a third-party API?

Why can’t I see the gallery option in Microsoft Lists?

SharePoint Forms - Is there a way to show different forms based on rights. F.e. another view for an admin and another view for an end user?

Office Hours October 2023

October 4, 2023
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2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
ONLINE EVENT

Open to all! Ask us your M365 questions.

Mike Bodell
Apps & Automation Lead
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Matt Dressel
Communication & Collaboration Lead
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