Create New Events in SharePoint: MS Power Automate

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Piyush K Singh2 Comments

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In this post we’ll discuss how to create a new event in the OOTB Events list in modern SharePoint Online Communication sites.

PowerApps: Masking First 'X' Characters

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

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In PowerApps we can mask/hide the entire text of a textbox control by changing its Mode to Password. However, in this post I’ll demonstrate how to mask the first ‘X’ characters and only display the last 4 characters, like Credit Card or, Bank Account numbers.

SPFx DatePicker Validation: Prevent Selection

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Piyush K Singh1 Comment

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In this post I’ll discuss about leveraging one of the very important property of the Office Fabric UI’s DatePicker control, restrictedDates. On setting this property, the given dates are grayed out in the control thereby, preventing user selection.

PowerApps: Read values at any Index of a Collection or Gallery

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Piyush K SinghLeave a comment

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There’s a requirement to sequentially traverse a collection in PowerApps. The issue is that, unlike a normal array in any programming language, we cannot directly access a collection’s item via indexing, in PowerApps i.e., we can’t dynamically read values at any index of a collection.

PowerApps: Upload Images to SharePoint

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Piyush K Singh3 Comments

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In this post, we’ll cover how to upload images to a SharePoint list from Microsoft PowerApps. The app is supposed to take some pictures, at most 5, and upload the same to a SharePoint list.