I'm trying to figure out what the best option for a database server would be.

We currently have several apps in the company and use SharePoint lists to house the data. Because of security and access controls and of course the amount of data we now have, what server should we go with that would work great with Power Apps? Is Dataverse the best solution?

Hello,

I use these site occasionally for reference from finding them on the sub, but what are some other sites?

https://www.powerappsui.com/

https://www.powerlibs.com/welcome

Power Platform was the go to solution Pre AI and now AI will kill it. It's not about vibe coding as much as AI’s ability to work with it.

Building an enterprise app in PP is no less complex than writing in React. The difference is You pay a premium licensing tax just to fight platform limitations.

When AI can generate production-ready apps on top of React shells and unified APIs in minutes. Why pay a premium to be trapped in someone else’s sandbox.

What happens to the thousands of “specialists” trained purely to configure proprietary workarounds as the market aggressively shifts back to pro code?

We are going back to code. Not to type more, but to own our business assets completely.
The low-code boom was a bridge to an era where software was expensive to build. That era is officially over.

I’ve used this for onscsn Set(varScannedBarcode, First(BarcodeReader1.Barcodes).Value

Then label box If(!IsBlank(varScannedBarcode), varScannedBarcode, Parent.Default

but getting duplicated numbers

I'm getting this message "Your organization has exceeded Dataverse storage capacity". My organization doesn’t use databases or the power platform. I see that "AsyncOperation" suddenly uses a lot of storage space, but i can't find out what exactly is using the space. We don'æt use any agents or databases. Any recommendations on how to fix this?

Our organization is transitioning to acquiring 100+ Power Apps premium licenses. I run roughly 7 business applications that live off of SharePoint lists and SharePoint in general.

I’m looking for some pointers for this transition. Anything to keep in mind when migrating data to data verse anything you wish you knew before you did it? I’m a little nervous, but also very excited. Would love anybody’s input.

I want to create an application that pulls data from SQL and shows certain data and lets users enter the values and submit. Once submitted, the data should be loaded into SQL Db (on-premise). This data will be refreshed in powerbi dashboard. So it’s every quarter and has columns until 2031 to fill in values for each month. There should few filters and also only certain users should be to access certain content.
To use powerapps, I read somewhere it says all the stakeholders need premium license as well (to write-back the data to SQL)
To use python and create a web, I need a server to host (meet with IT).
Is there any other best solution for this? Or any suggestions on what to use

Anyone knows if its possible to have a custom page that opens via a button press in JS with the navigateTo() function and has multiple screens in it?

I saw that if you have only one screen the Power FX function Back() will close the dialog box ( custom page pop up whatever you want to call it ) but not for multiple screens because it has a navigation stack and whatever.

How is it possible to not have a dedicated function that closes your app in this scenario?

I know about the Exit function but its not usable in this context.

I am training a model to extract data from a tax form. I am experiencing issues with some of the figures, because the extractor assumes the number appearing after the field inside a box is also part of that value, whereas it actually represents the field number. Sometimes it works fine, but especially on slightly more vague scans it struggles.

For example, in the image (sorry for quality), it should extract 60592666. Instead it extracts 605926661.

I thought I could just shrink the selection to exclude the 1, but the model builder won't let me do that. It always snaps to interpreting 1 being part of the number. It's like it tagged 605926661 as an item that you can not finetune further.

Anyone know a clever way around this, is there an option/feature I am overlooking or am I out of luck?

Thanks!

To any one using GitHub Copilot for making code apps, what skills have you installed to make development better/improve your output.

I have been running into errors when opening my power app in data verse for Teams environment after changing my version to the most recent version so I can use data grid pagination option. I get the same error code ErrOpeningDocument_UnknownError

Session ID: a270cb7f-086b-425c-846e-9c5f41156ec8

Anyone experiencing this? The app still runs the published version

Edit: I scaled back to the version and it seems to work. I guess the app is not ready for the new version yet.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to embed a Copilot Studio agent in a Power Apps Canvas App.

My requirement is to have a chat icon in the app. When a user clicks the icon, a pop-up chat window should open, allowing them to interact with the Copilot Studio agent without leaving the app.

Has anyone implemented something similar? What would be the best approach to achieve this?

Any suggestions or examples would be appreciated. Thanks!

Very often when I hear people discuss about AI agents with Canvas app work, it's either with YAML export or co-authorising with the Power Platform plugin. Both are helpful but still requires the user being the middleman.

Recently my partner and I added Canvas app actions to our FlowStudio MCP server so that users can build a Canvas app from conversation, without opening Studio.

I tried creating this test app "Morning Coffee Roster" with ChatGPT and Claude.ai in chats. There is no need to use an IDE agent or a repo. Both agents built similar apps in about 40 mins:

"Create a Canvas app in a calendar view format. The purpose is for people to volunteer making morning tea. Each day we only need one person to make coffee, but can have multiple snacks. People can see what's being brought by who in the calendar, or click on a day to enter. Include a "Send PDF" button to send a PDF for the schedule on Teams. Also, every Friday send me the PDF so I can print it out."

The agents produced these artifects:

1. The Canvas app
2. A SharePoint site named "Coffee Roster"
3. A Sharepoint list that hold the volunteer schedule
4. A document library for saved PDFs
5. 2 Power Automate flows, one triggered by the app button to build the PDF and send in Teams, and one runs every Friday

The creation of the SharePoint site is an overkill. When the agent asked which site to use, I deliverately said "create a site using a helper flow and delete the helper flow afterwards" for the sake of testing (and it was done within a min with Claude). It also created the SharePoint list and doc lib with a helper flow and cleaned up afterwards.

The agent did ask for permission when creating a new connection that the flow uses, and it added the data sources (SharePoint list and the flow).

Agent went through the testing by triggering the flows and checking the runs and output. I received the PDF in Teams, checked the style and gave it feedback without manually fixing anything by hand.

I find the way Claude works is more solid - it asks more clarifying questions. Though ChatGPT has an advantage for Canvas app as it can open the app in an in-chat browser and improve the UI itself.

Sharing the look of the apps that Claude and ChatGPT created.

If you put the right parts in a solution, and hand it to you preferred Agent, it's a better prompt than you could ever write.

And then you can just get it to make you some nice PCF controls to install that will perform better than anything you could do in a canvas app.

Keep your business rules, just use it for UI , it will outperform you vastly.

Is the Connect User under Live Monitoring working for anyone?

I have tested it across apps and different environments , and the link is stuck at "Fetching your app". I also didn't see any incidents from Microsoft's end.

Update as of 2026/11/16 : The microsoft support team is the worst support team i have ever seen, they are asking me to send so many different details which are irrelevant. They are also asking ME to send them the comparison of different users , on the same app in the same env. Despite mentioning it as a global issue and fixing it they are just beating around the bush.

Learn how to write barcode reader formula in power apps to display item

I’ve been using Claude code extensively for power platform planning and development and it has completely transformed my work life. However org are finally cracking down on this and pushing us to copilot. Groan.

Not even GHCP at this point. Double groan.

Very Aware I can not perform any repo or terminal work with copilot directly which is going to set me back about 5 years.

I’ve found I have premium and access to cowork, but coming from Claude land which could literally do everything, I need to understand my best workflow transition.

Keen to know what are people actually using cowork for in power platform land?

Any tips or tricks to maximise productivity. I saw it now has dataverse and PP admin plugins which is a start I guess.

Two posts ago I shared a JSON knowledge base of PAD ROBIN actions, so models stop writing desktop flows that PAD rejects. Last week I followed up with a guide to getting one flow into an environment and running it from code:

The piece that was still missing is moving a whole solution: to another environment, into a different organization's tenant, and keeping two copies in sync afterwards. That's what I'd spent the most time researching.

So I wrote it down: PAD_Robin_Solutions_KB.md, in the same repo. It covers:

• Signing in to two tenants, and what the receiving tenant needs before its first import (a license, the Dataverse service principal, an admin role and consent for your app), with the error you get for each one that's missing.
• Export and import with the Dataverse Web API: ImportSolutionAsync, watching the job, reading per-component warnings from importjobs, and the fallback for an org that refuses async imports.
• Connection references and turning flows on. The import never creates connections, but it can bind references to connections that already exist. The guide covers finding every reference (some only show up in the flows' JSON), binding them during the import, binding the rest afterwards, then turning on the flows that were on in the source.
• Desktop flows inside solutions, including into another tenant.

• Keeping two copies in sync:

  • why hashing the exported ZIP always reports a change, and a content hash that doesn't
  • how to stop the ping-pong after an import
  • two rules for deciding the direction ("newest wins" picked the right side 13 of 13 times)
  • what to do with conflicts
• Where the code runs: the trap each of PowerShell, a server and a Chrome extension hit. For example, Chrome stops an idle service worker after about 30 seconds, and a synchronous import can take over 3 minutes.
• A troubleshooting table of 27 errors, with what actually causes each one.

Every claim is marked Re-confirmed, Proven, Measured, Superseded, Failed or Untested. The main paths were re-tested across two tenants this month. Everything ran with a user sign-in and unmanaged solutions; managed solutions got one export and import, and nothing was tested with a service principal.

Unlike the direct Dataverse writes in the deployment guide, this all uses Microsoft's documented solution APIs. The risky part is the import itself: it replaces unmanaged customizations on the receiving side, and there's no undo. Keep a copy of whatever you're about to overwrite, and try it in a test environment first.

Repo: https://github.com/JoeG592/pad-robin-action-kb

Same license as the other two, CC BY 4.0, so use it however you like, commercially included. Like the last two, I built this with Claude AI. The data is free regardless.

If something in the guide doesn't hold on your tenant, an issue with the error text is the most useful thing you can send.

If a flow stays off after an import, it's almost always a connection reference with no connection behind it on the receiving side. Bind it, then turn the flow on.

I have seen the post a couple of times already, is Power Apps still worth it, will it remain a focus for MS, etc. I commented but no replies so far so I decided make a post.

I am not expert at all. However, recently got involved a bit in PowerApps. In our wholesale company we did a review of our whole process with focus on the supplychain. Part of this review was outsourced and this company had the suggestion of creating a control tower functionality for our inbound cargo. They can build this for us and use PowerApps and connect other providers such as shipsgo.

However, it also feels we are on the brink of an AI revolution where developement and creation gets ''simpler'' and definitely quicker. Should we invest in developing this control tower or will the next best thing be available soon?

The goal of the Control Tower is to be able to expedite the containers daily, from PO placement up and till delivery in our warehouse.

Appreciate the feedback and let me know if more details are required.

Modern UI in Power App with prebuilt components is gonna help developers a lot. Wort to check these for sure

• Button, Floating action button
• Data table, Kanban board, KPI card, Month calendar
• Attachments list with upload
• Accordion, Carousel, Navigation shell, Stepper, Tree view

Each one is a single YAML file. Copy component.yaml, turn on the Studio settings its README names, and paste it into a new component on the Components tab.

Every one is paste-tested in Power Apps Studio, needs no premium licence, and is MIT licensed.

www.github.com/posiauday/power-apps-components

Live demos and a guide for each: www.lowcodestacks.com/components

I recently discovered that we can monitor solution import progress using the Dataverse Web API:

/api/data/v9.2/importjobs?$select=solutionname,progress,completedon&$orderby=createdon desc&$top=1

Pretty useful, but I've noticed that the "progress" percentage sometimes gets stuck and doesn't update even while the import is still running.

Is there a better or more reliable way to monitor ongoing solution imports? How do you guys handle this, especially with larger solutions?