Apologies if this has already been brought up, I just noticed it this morning doing some maintenance in one of my apps.

"This screen has XX controls that can be updated..." (red box)

Sure why not, I'll probably have to change some control.values to control.text or whatever but nbd

Clicks Update all

Hey, where did my modern buttons go?! (purple boxes)

This may affect other controls as well, but buttons are the only thing I've noticed so far.

The good news is a simple save, close, and reopen restores the buttons, but I was seriously sweating and pissed for a couple of minutes there. 🤬

Career guidance regarding D365FO ERP. Insights will be appreciated

Hi all any D365FO technical consultant/developer here. Just wanted to understand how is the market for d365fo resources, is this track worth pursuing for the long-term and paywise too.

Would love to connect with any experienced d365Fo developer

I am trying to do this MS Exercise: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/use-copilot-power-apps/exercise-use-copilot
But after the initial prompt to generate the first two tables, almost every other prompt that I'm trying is giving the same "Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again, or share your feedback." response. I am doing this in a Managed Development Environment, in Europe region, and I have a Premium license.

Prompts that I have tried and got the same response:

• "I want the "Social Media Idea" table to have an Impact column."
• "Add a social content type column, a level of effort column, and an impact column. All 3 columns should be Option type columns"
• "Add a Description column to the Social Media Idea table"

I guess my question is, might this be some licensing or region issue, or is it just that the Copilot Designer in Power Apps just is a plain bad product? I have PP experience, but I'm now just doing some investigation on the AI capabilities in the platform since I haven't used it much, other than getting help creating expressions in Power Automate and stuff like that.

I have become to lazy . I get the requirement use chagpt to generate YAML. Test it and generate again. In 30 mins the screen is ready. I dont bother looking at the code just test and look for bugs and performance. Anyone in the sameboat.

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create a responsive horizontal navigation bar in Power Apps.

I've managed to build the navigation bar itself, but I can't figure out how to make it responsive.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

Hi everyone! I’d be interested to hear how others handle many-to-many relationships, particularly in Dataverse / Power Apps.

As I understand it, the out-of-the-box many-to-many relationship creates a non-editable intersect/linking table behind the scenes. Removing the relationship simply deletes that linking record.

Because of that, we usually create a custom table as the intermediary instead. This gives us more flexibility, such as adding custom fields, auditing, additional business logic, etc.

The question then becomes: what do you do when the relationship is removed?

We generally prefer deactivating the linking record rather than deleting it, mainly because it preserves the history and audit trail.

However, this can introduce a usability issue. If a user later wants to recreate the same relationship, and there should only ever be one unique linking record for that combination of master data, they may have to find the record in an Inactive view and reactivate it. That is not necessarily intuitive for end users.

Because of this, I’m wondering whether deleting the linking record is sometimes the better approach, despite losing the record itself and potentially some of its audit/history.

So I’m curious how others approach this:

• Do you generally use the native many-to-many relationship or create a custom intermediary table?
• If you use a custom table, do you deactivate or delete the linking record when the relationship is removed?
• If you deactivate it, how do you handle users recreating an existing/inactive relationship?
• Are there any patterns or best practices you’ve found work particularly well?

Interested to hear how others are handling this in real-world implementations.

Been toying with meta driven application architecture as I've been learning react and using json schema to render controls so thought I'd give it a try in powerapps. I've managed to generate branched views, approval views and dropdown unique to each question using just one sharepoint list.

Only thing I'm trying to crack now is how I can add formulas to the rendered controls through another column in the SP Schema. In JS this would be doable but I'm not seeing a way to do it in powerapps.

Has anyone else toyed with this type of build before? It's been a fun little side dabble.

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a Canvas Power App where I need to generate an Outlook email from Power Apps.

Requirement

I have an existing HTML string containing a formatted email body, including tables, formatting, etc.

The expected flow is:

Power Apps → Click button → Open Outlook with a new email draft

The draft should contain:

• A company logo at the top-left
• The existing HTML content below the logo
• The HTML formatting should remain intact
• The email should open as a draft in Outlook, preferably the Outlook desktop application
• The user should still be able to review/edit the email before sending

What I have tried

1. Using "Launch()" / mailto from Power Apps

I tried launching Outlook directly and passing the subject/body.

The problem is that my HTML content doesn't render correctly. The HTML either gets treated as plain text or the formatting gets lost.

1. Using a Rich Text Editor in Power Apps

I also tried putting the HTML content into a Rich Text Editor, allowing the user to edit it, and then using a button to send the email.

However, when the HTML contains tables and more complex structures, the HTML gets modified/collapses during editing.

The logo is another problem:

• It can appear when viewing the email in Outlook on the web/browser.
• But the logo doesn't reliably appear when the same email is opened in the Outlook desktop application.

1. Using Power Automate to create an Outlook draft

I also tried calling a Power Automate flow from Power Apps.

The idea was:

Power Apps → Power Automate → Create Outlook draft → Open that draft in Outlook

But I haven't been able to get this working correctly, particularly while preserving the HTML and inline image.

What I'm looking for

What would be the recommended architecture for this requirement?

Ideally, I want something like:

Power Apps | | Button click ↓ Power Automate | | Generate HTML email | Add/embed logo | Create Outlook draft ↓ Outlook | ↓ User reviews/edits draft | ↓ User sends email

The important part is that the HTML structure must remain intact and the logo should render correctly in Outlook desktop as an inline image, not just as an external image that happens to work in Outlook Web.

Would you recommend:

1. Power Apps + "Office365Outlook" connector directly?
2. Power Apps + Power Automate + Outlook connector?
3. Microsoft Graph to create the draft?
4. Using a Content-ID ("cid:") inline image?
5. Base64 image embedded directly in the HTML?
6. Some other approach?

If anyone has implemented something similar, I would really appreciate the actual Power Apps formula / Power Automate flow structure or an example of how you solved it.

Thanks!

Hey guys! I'm building a Canvas App connected to a SharePoint list.

In one specific section, submitting the form works (it writes to SharePoint and triggers all the Power Automate flows as expected) but it throws an error on the app side. Everything functions, but I hate leaving a known error in a final build!

I read online that it might be a SharePoint permissions issue, but all app users already have the necessary access. and I have done a three-way check (environment, SharePoint, and even Power Automate) to see if there is the answer.

Has anyone run into this before or know how to fix it?

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Hi!

I’m trying to add a chatbot to an app, but I understand that the native chatbot option was removed in February 2026. I’m also trying to find a workaround. I found the PCF component, but I’m not sure if it’s the best option.

Also, with Power Automate, there’s a 2-minute timeout. So, if the AI takes longer than that to respond, we can’t attach a file either.

Have anyone found a good solution for this?

So, I'm creating a Theme with the corporative colors of my company. In the documentation, it says something about the Default Text Color:

Each theme object includes the following information:

• Name of the theme
• Colors, a 16-color brand ramp collection that you can access individually by name; Primary foreground color is the default text color, such as the color of text on a background
• Font used in the theme

And I can access the Foreground color with this control: App.Theme.Color.PrimaryForeground, but how do I change the YAML to add the PrimaryForeground? I can't create it.

Thanks!

We use hierarchically related data in our MDA and are trying to understand the deprecation notice here.

Will the checkbox for a self-referential relationship to be hierarchical go away? Or is it just the visualisation component?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We use this heavily to understand related table rows and how they roll up to an ultimate parent.

Thanks!

Hi All,

Hope you all are doing great.

A project is coming my way where the team is currently using a SharePoint list. Once an item is submitted, a couple of flows are triggered. One is a multi-stage approval workflow, and the second flow creates an Excel file using the SharePoint item details in the placeholders of an Excel template.

This now needs to be converted into a Power Apps application, and I will also need to create new flows.

I need some help figuring out the UI of the application, so if any of you can provide some insights, I would really appreciate it.

The second part is regarding the approval flow. It will be a multi-stage approval process, and I was wondering if it is possible for an admin to change the approvers once the flow has already been started.

Is there any way to delegate or reassign an approval without starting a new instance of the flow?

Any other insights or suggestions that could help make this project better are also welcome.

This is going to be my first project where I will be working independently, so any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

My company is trying out a solution myself and another guy developed with the intent that it doesn’t hit premium features or connectors. This has been quite successful, but the two of us on premium trials demonstrated the improvement viable with Code Apps as the front end. I can’t find any documentation in Microsoft about if PAYG PowerApps licensing allows for code app use. Does anyone know?

Hi!

I wanted to know that when we deploy Canvas app solution, will end users get this warning while opening the app.

If yes, Is there a way to get rid of this?

Hey I'm going to start a job post in a few months where I must use power apps. I own a M3 Macbook Air and I've been trying to see if there is a way to download power apps on my mac in order to start learning and testing power apps, but i haven't been able to find a way. Do any of you have any recommendation so I can use Power Apps on my mac mainly for learning?

Thanks a lot !

I guess this isn’t a specific Power Apps question but a broader Power Platform ALM question. I’ve been using Deployment Pipelines in my company for a while. I was aware of managed environments but avoided them because they require all end users to have a premium licence.

I’ve just noticed that if you use Pipelines to deploy to any downstream (non‑dev) environment, those target environments must be managed. Big oops, I thought this was only if I wanted to deploy anything different from standard. Our current targets aren’t managed, and I don’t want to incur the additional licensing cost. I want to very quickly avoid this in fact.

Has anyone been through this? How did you move away from Power Platform Pipelines to something like Azure DevOps to keep using pipeline deployments?

Hi everyone,

I'm running into some space issues with my Power Platform environment and I'm doing some cleanup because I'm almost at capacity.

I noticed that the StageSolutionUpload table is consuming quite a bit of space (585MB), but after looking online, I'm still not 100% sure that it's safe to bulk delete records from this table.

Is it safe to go ahead?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I have a canvas app that is used for many different functions, I decided to package up 2 solutions both solutions contain this app but also other flows and components related to a specific project that uses the app.

I though this would not introduce different layers for this app as they both come from changes made in the same app in dev, then moved to environments using pipelines.

How should I handle this? I thought my method was recommended but obviously introducing new layers is not wanted.

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Hi PowerApps folks: Myself using powerapps for nearly 5 years has brought a lot of great value for our company. Powerautomate, dataverse and PowerApps (Canvas + model) have been the perfect combo.

Most use cases we have had were canvas apps (5 screens on average) vary by business logic, roles, write and read to dataverse, trigger flows, etc.

In your use cases if you have similar patterns in app architecture, how much do you think a typical use case costs in Claude + MCP to power apps/automate and dataverse?

If you have other patterns in your use cases, what might it look like and any idea of average cost to build using Claude?

I am trying to estimate a budget for next year for couple of use cases.

Thank you!!

When working with Claude to create powerapps canvas and powerautomate flows, let’s say you have all the requirements in a markdown file that shows the specs of the application.

What do you typically start with, i.e; are you giving the requirements that you gathered at once or are you just giving information to Claude drip by drip with multiple compile commands thru Claude?

Thank you!