ESPC19 Power Apps Deep Dive
- 2. Power Apps Deep Dive TIMO PERTILÄ Consultant, Digital Illustrated, Finland
- 4. THERE ARE ACTUALLY 3 DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER APPS
- 5. PORTAL / MODEL-DRIVEN / CANVAS POWER APPS 5
- 6. Licensing..
- 8. IN PRACTISE • Users needs Power Apps plan if any premium connector is used • Azure services • Power Apps notifications • Custom connectors • Common Data Service • Users needs Power Apps plan if using data from on-premises (Gateway(s)) • Daily Power Platform API request limit for every user • Makers and admins don’t need any Power Apps plan
- 10. ”Delegation? What is that?”
- 11. EXAMPLE: DELEGATION SUPPORTED Give me all stores where location = London Here are all 5000 stores located in London 50 000 items
- 12. EXAMPLE: DELEGATION NOT SUPPORTED Give me all stores location containing string ”London” Here are 500 first stores. Please find what you want by yourself! 50 000 items
- 13. DELEGATION SUPPORT DEPENDS ON USED • Data source (SharePoint, SQL Server, Dynamics 365, CDS for Apps, Excel, Google Sheet...) • Function (Filter, Search, LookUp, Sort, Sum...) • Predicates (Not, In, StartsWith, +, -, <, <=, =...) Read: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/delegation-overview
- 14. Do I have more than 500 items? Ever
- 15. ”But I have 50000 items in SharePoint. Can Power Apps handle it?”
- 16. IT’S ALL ABOUT GETTING RID OF DELEGATION ISSUES • Filter(AllStores, ‘Created By’.Email = User().Email) • Filter(AllStores , ‘Created By’.Email = varCurrentUserEmail) • LookUp(AllStores , Text(ID) = varID) • LookUp(AllStores , ID = Value(varID)) • Filter(AllStores, Created > Today() - 7) • Filter(AllStores, ‘Created time as number’ > var7DaysAgo) 2019112320191125
- 17. DEMO
- 18. “Which datastorage I should use?”
- 19. TOP 3 DATASOURCE OPTIONS • Familiar for makers • Easy to build row-level security • Easy to work with attachments • Free • Limited support for delegation • Search can be delegated • ”unlimited” • All users uses same login account • Cheap • Can be extended with views and stored procedures • Goodbye citizen developers • Best parts from both SharePoint list and SQL Database • Not free either cheap
- 20. ”This is freaking slow!!!!”
- 21. CHECK & TO DO • Minimize stuff loaded on App OnStart • Use concurrency when loading data • Avoid dependencies between screens • Expensive operations located • In ForAll • In Gallery • Delegation warnings
- 22. CHECK & TO DO • Save / update several items -> Use Flow • Use galleries when suitable • Use components when suitable • Power App might run extremely slow on older mobile phone • Reduce number of screens • Reduce number of controls • Use Monitor (or Fiddler or developer tools) to find out network traffic App generates
- 23. “Yes yes, it is a great tool. But all these Power Apps looks like S+!&#”
- 24. CASE VIKING LINE
- 25. CASE FINNAIR
- 26. DEMO
- 27. Lessons learned
- 28. DON’T UNDERESTIMATE SHAREPOINT LISTS
- 29. FIND OUT MOBILE DEVICES END USERS HAVE
- 31. START PLANNING GOVERNANCE NOW
- 32. POWER PLATFORM IS MUCH MORE THAN MOBILE APP BUILT ON TOP OF THE SHAREPOINT LISTS
Editor's Notes
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