Power Apps Community Call -- April 2021

Todd Baginski
3 minutes to read
21 Apr, 2021
- Power apps community call

Call summary

Topics covered in this month’s community call include

Make your Power Apps sessions persistent when switching Microsoft Teams tabs! (Making your Teams mobile and desktop power apps off-line capable),
Power Apps Custom Functions Library (sharing your great work - find, use, submit samples),
Make your Power Apps user experience awesome with Gestalt design principles (create visually compelling model driven apps),
and Recent Power Apps News and Community Contributions.

This session included Q&A in chat. The call was hosted by Todd Baginski (Canviz). Demo presenters include Hardit Bhatia, Matthew Devaney, April Dunnam, Hiro Nagao, Geetha Sivasailam, Hugo Bernier, Anton Robbins and Rory Neary. Recorded on April 21, 2021.

Thank for attending the call or viewing it on demand.

Demos

Make your Power Apps sessions persistent when switching Microsoft Teams tabs! - tired of losing data captured in your Microsoft Teams-based Power Apps when you leave the app to respond to a chat message or go to another channel? Learn how to store data and then reload data when restarting your Power App to effectively achieve session data persistence. Hint – make your app off-line capable. Works on desktop too!
Power Apps Custom Functions Library – now that it is possible to create user defined custom functions in Power Apps the DRY principle applies, so let’s share! The custom functions library is the new Power Platform samples repository. Find, use, and submit custom functions, Power app, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents samples. Not sure where to start? Community contributor training offered at PnP | Sharing Is Caring
Make your Power Apps user experience awesome with Gestalt design principles - how you layout objects in your Power Apps UI is a mixture of art, industry standard, and Gestalt. In Power Apps, objects are in a 2D frame. In this demo, you will understand how and why using Gestalt principles in app design matters in a world where users do not typically read manuals and adoption is largely based on visual perceptions.

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