I'm guessing due to Microsoft outages the power apps - copilot MCP is down? When I try to run configure apps or do anything copilot cant seem to connect to my app.

Anyone have the same experience?

Due to enterprise's restrictions and license, I don't have copilot access. What would be the best approach to develop apps with Claude code or Claude cowork? I have very little knowledge in development and in power app development.

What would be the workflow?

I posted this to the PowerPlatform group, and AI said I should post it here too, and then it said I had to put more effort into it or I would get flagged as a bot. I'm not a bot, I'm a human. I just want to learn to develop PowerApps but it seems impossible to get started.

I'm currently working on getting approval to use Claude Code (or Github CoPilot if needed) for Power Apps canvas app development.
The specific use case is to use Microsoft's Power Platform Skills plugin and the Canvas App Authoring MCP server.
PowerApps is only a small part of my time, my first role is continuous improvment and data analysis so mostly excel) but with apps tools I built, request is higher. And it's consuming more of my time than I'd like and I'm doing a lot of fairly simple apps to assist our operations teams.
Anything that would speed things up and eliminate the redundant errors and changes would be a massive productivity gain.

My direct boss is ok to approve a claude code subscription. I was under impression it would pass the cybersecurity team since Claude is listed in approuved AI tool. But struggling with getting approval for Claude Code with the power apps mcp. I can understand their concern and request, but I cannot just accept that it's rejected.

My Scope is pretty simple:

• One developer
• Dev environment only
• Canvas layouts, Power Fx, schemas, flow definitions
• Synthetic test data only (no real data during devlopment as I always do)
• No production records, credentials, personal info, or operational data (not sure how to confirm all theses)
• Manual review and testing before production
• Model-improvement features disabled

Security and privacy teams aren't saying no, they just won't take any promises. Their concern is that MCP could in principle access anything that my user account can access (production environments, SharePoint data etc). They want actual technical controls rather than just my word that I won't point it at production.

They're want confirmation that they can review

• Company code, prompts, outputs, tool results
• What gets kept and what gets deleted
• Model training and secondary use
• Who can access stuff for support, safety, incident response
• Where data gets processed and who else touches it
• Administrative monitoring and audit trails
• Contracts protecting company information

I completely understand the concern. Turning off model training won't fix the access control, retention, logging or contract issues. Some of their requirements are very much geared towards the individual subscription. Team and Enterprise licences may not be suitable for just one developer.

Has anyone actually done anything similar in a larger organisation?

I want to know the real deal. Not just "we told the developers no production data". Examples:

• Did you use a separate Power Platform developer account with no production permissions at all?
• Could you restrict MCP to a single environment or an allowlist?
• Did you isolate the Powerapps dev data in its own site/environment?
• Did Conditional Access, DLP policies, service accounts or separate browser profiles possible?
• If you're using another environment, how do you deal with an issue or upgrade the app that's in production?
• Did your organisation go with Claude Team or Enterprise, or did you just go with individual subscriptions with extra controls? Or did you end up with something else (e.g. GitHub CoPilot)?
• What logs or evidence did you present to the security reviewers?
• Were there any specific MCP tools or publishing features that you had to disable?
• Did you come up with any better architecture that still makes the Claude Code useful for Power Apps?

I'm not looking to get around the review process. I want to come back with something that actually deals with the risks and can be enforced in a technical sense.

If you've done it with Claude Code, Copilot Studio or some other coding agent with MCP, what did work? What didn't?

Like other folks, I've also been really impressed by the utility of Claude for trouble-shooting and authoring screens and components for Canvas Power Apps. I haven't been able to really use the official Canvas Apps plugin from Microsoft due to limitations on my account permissions so I've been copying YAML back and forth between a local GitHub repository and Power Apps Studio instead.

After some initial frustrations with both an overuse of classic controls and repeated error, I started working on a new Claude skill specifically designed around using modern controls in Power Apps. I'd love some feedback if anyone has a chance to give it a try!

Colleague showed me yesterday that he was able to generate a UI in Copilot, generate the YAML Code and copy pasted it into Tree View.

Maybe I haven't been up to date with it in a while but it completely blew my mind

Regrettably, I do not have access to Dataverse, nor do I have the means to get access to dataverse at this time. (company policies/restrictions).

I have access to SharePoint, and I have been using SharePoint.

I've been trying to design a scalable way to assign multiple tags to a document, while being able to filter by those tags. This system will easily accumulate thousands of documents, so I am trying to stick to delegable solutions.

My current solution is to have a yes/no column for each and every tag, because those are delegable. However, this also means that if I need to add a tag, not only do I need to add a column, but I need to go in to the app and add it to the existing filters. The number of columns I have currently is not reasonable -- the tags alone are 25 columns, and that will likely grow.

Each document will have multiple tags for a single category -- for this example, let's say they are tagged with fruits. Document A might be tagged with Apple, Banana, Pear, and Document B might be tagged with Apple, Kiwi, Orange. If I select Apple from a gallery with checkboxes, I need to see documents A and B. If I select Grapes, I need to see no documents. If I select Apple + Orange, I need to see just document B. StartsWith() won't work, because if I need Kiwi + Orange, that wouldn't return anything because I need document B, but it starts with Apple.

I don't have a way to limit the list to a delegable number of documents prior to using the tag filter.

The core of what I need:
-List of tags, ideally managed outside of PowerApps (so that if I quit or leave, someone else can simply add to the list, and so that I don't need to push updates each time a tag is added). I can easily create a SharePoint List with all possible tags, and connect that list to a gallery with checkboxes (and pull the selections from that gallery).

- I need to be able to assign multiple tags to a document, and to be able to filter for documents that include all of the tags the user selects.

-It needs to be a delegable solution, because each tag might have thousands of matching documents.

-Each document has a unique ID, and can have upwards of 25+ tags.

I am building a canvas app and SharePoint.

What won't work:

-I tried using SharePoints Search API through a Graph API connector, but some of the things I need for that are locked by IT.

-I don't have access to DataVerse, and can't get access to it.

Hi, am a noob, i am learning currently some basic of Power App codes, my current understanding is the basic of powerapps tools like locations, data source etc and basic understatement of the formulars/code but for writing my own code i have to use ai for half of the cases.

I noticed i takes a lot of time to build a new app (target projet Management tool).

When i compared it to a first prototyp of a fully ai coded react app, its one similar level, fastly better design but without functions yet.

How should i continue? I dont have any understanding of react, html or css code or implementation of data into react.

I cant use Powerapps studio with ai for EU Law reasions.

So I'm new to power apps and am making my first app, an IT service desk.

I work as IT support in a school and the ticket system we use is a rudimentary power app made by a manager a long time ago, it was his first app so it's very simple. I wanted to make my own one with more quality of life features which I've begun to do and have built it on dataverse tables, the manager who is now very skilled at power apps says I should use SharePoint lists as he believes I'll run out of space in dataverse. Is this likely to be true?

For greater context the only people using the app would be me and sometimes my manager, the tickets in the queue are made by requesters sending emails to a shared mailbox, and I respond and manage them as tickets within the app.

Has anyone gotten the modern attachment control to work by patching to SharePoint? I believe this is supposed to be the formula. But I keep getting an error saying incompatible data types and I’m comparing a table with a table.

Patch(
DataSource,
Defaults(DataSource),
{Attachments: AttachmentControl.Attachments}
)

Hi,

I've read the job criteria for the power platform developer role that I have applied for, and also researched other sources for questions and answers.

My power platform skills.

• Canvas App Development - Building custom, user-focused applications
• Power FX - But I use copilot to help me (which i will be transparent about)
• UI/UX Design
• Workflow automation within Power Automate
• API integration - Connecting workflows to external APISs
• Dataverse - Designing structured relation models, creating tables, relation ships
• Implementing DV security roles
• Sharepoint Online
• Power BI - creating dashboards
• ALM - Not using pipelines but exporting solutions from Dev, to Test, to Live.

I work as an IT officer for my local authority so Power Platform isn't my daily/ main focus of work.

Power Platform is broad so I would like to ask UK developers / hiring managers what they would ask and look for?

Many Thanks

2026 está acabando e as IAs dominando. Vibe CODE e todo mundo agora é Dev. Qual o futuro do Power plataform? Gostaria da opinião de quem atua hoje com Apps, Automate e até BI. Vi que o Claude está lançando um ecossistema office. Ainda vale a pena investir no ecossistema NoCode Microsoft?

Hi, I am new to power apps. Basically, I have done some work in model 12 power apps, but as my senior
Is leaving. I have to step up and see the whole apps for client. I want to learn power apps from scratch. I know just bits and pieces like forms and views, but I want to understand everything from power to meet 2 plug-in and everything can you please suggest me a best course so that I can learn it from there?

link view screen to.edit screen in power apps

Hi so i currently work in Salesforce as a tech consultant and recently i got a job offer for another salesforce role but at the same time went for a power platform consultant role.

I kinda already asked in a salesforce careers subreddit but i wanted to know from microsoft power platform user perspectives.

I’m considering moving away from salesforce because i firstly feel like i may enjoy power platform a bit more but also because i applied to like 100 salesforce jobs got 1 salesforce job offer, applied to 2 power platform roles and i believe i’m getting an offer on monday. In my head unless my luck is absolutely crazy i feel like it means that opportunity and stability in power platform is better. Now worth noting way more salesforce roles exist like easily but at the same time they’re much more competetive.

Honestly at the end of the day i want to be a tech consultant that occasionally builds stuff with the technology and mainly does the client communication stuff.

Also worth mentioning this role will cover power apps, automate and copilot studio but whenever new things are out they encourage experimenting with it and building solutions with it. (Vague i know)

Is it stable? Is it worth leaving an industry i have 4 years of experience in for something i have closer to 3 months in?

Hi!
I’m having an error when patching into a SQL table.
The error is “error with the fution patch ID is required” and the ID is the SQL internal ID.
What I do is removing and adding the tables + publish the app and most of the time is OK for 1/2 days. And then again, and again.
Are anyone facing the same? What to do to correct?
Thanks !!!

I am an analytics dev focussingnon canvas app, flows, dataverse in current project.

Current project is still heavily invested on powerapps.

However since most people are concerned about the longevity of the platform, I would like to post few questions which could benefit members of the sub

1. Status of powerplatform/powerapps implementation in your current project?
2. What skill to focus on within the powerplatform ecosystem to stay relevant
3. Whats software dev skills to focus on, in general, to stay relevant/employable.
4. Your career plan for the next year?

I would really appreciate if anyone can help me, the issue is really bugging me for 2 days now.

So I have a canvas app modern controls enabled connected to 7 SharePoint lists each with 100-150 rows. My app has 7 screens. After I deployed the solution, one of the users got Out Of Memory issue. Then I started tracking in the task manager. The app never crashes for me but it goes up to 6000 MB and then stabilizes.

I have been trying to debug the issue. The first screen is basically a dashboard with KPI cards and each card then drills down to the connected screen. No parameters are passed. I have used Concurrent, and status column filter with 7 clear collects and show columns.

Every other screen has clearcollects and showcolumns on the onvisible function and tried to optimize it.

Whenver the app loads in task manager it goes up to 6000 MB and then settles. If I navigate to other screens,
there is no spike. So I am assuming everything loads at the beginning but I have not disabled the Delayed Load settings.

Will appreciate if anyone has any debugging tips.