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PowerApps: Sending Text Messages
So much can be accomplished with PowerApps! In today’s blog post, we will walk you through the incredibly simple process of using PowerApps to send text messages with prefilled content using your own phone’s native messaging app. It’s just one example of the potential of PowerApps.
With PowerApps, we can generate text messages in a couple different ways:
- Using a Flow to send an automated message. Typically, this requires the use of a 3rd party action in Flow which will incur additional costs.
- Using the sender’s own device to send the message through its native texting application. This option uses existing carrier rates to send the text message, which for most plans is free due to unlimited texting – therefore, it is the preferred method.
You can even configure the body of the text message in PowerApps to make the whole process only two clicks:
1. Click the Send on-route text message button in Power Apps.
2. Click Send.
Slick, right? Now let’s look at how we can automate this process with a very simple formula.
1. In the “OnSelect” event of our button, we will add the Launch() formula Launch(Address, Label, value). As the name suggests, Launch is used to open or launch an application on your device – it could be your phone’s native SMS/texting app, a phone call app, or even a browser. In our example, we will pass the SMS: along with the customer’s phone number in the Address parameter and then pass “body” in the Label parameter to denote the location of pre-populated text of our choice, which is the Value parameter. The pre-populated text is a concatenated string of text along with fields from the Customer record to personalize the message.
2. Note that in terms of the necessary code, there is a slight difference in the syntax between IOS and Android devices. Android follows the comma-separated syntax describe above: Launch(Address, Body, Content). However, Apple devices use a slightly different syntax that uses ampersands (&) and equal signs (=) instead of the commas, yielding the following syntax: Launch(Address & Label=Content). To handle the specific syntax for Apple, we concatenate the three Launch parameters into the first (Address) parameter. We add the ampersands and equal sign syntax into the string and the Apple device will interpret the syntax and will open a new message.
- Android: Set the syntax by using the format provided in the hover over, which is Launch(Address, Label, value). Below is the Android syntax used in our example:
Launch(“SMS:”& Gallery1.Selected.address1_telephone2, “body”, “Hey ” & Gallery1.Selected.name & “! We are en-route to your location for the appointment. We will be there in less than an hour!”) - IOS: The entire syntax is located in the address parameter of the Launch formula , with the ampersand and equal sign being passed after the telephone number as part of the body string (highlighted below):
Launch(“SMS:”& Gallery1.Selected.address1_telephone2 & “&body=Hey ” & Gallery1.Selected.name & “! We are en-route to your location for the appointment. We will be there in less than an hour!”)
So, there you have it! Although simple, the Launch formula can help you not only automate your processes, but also save you a lot of money by using your carrier’s (unlimited) texting plan.
Tip: You can also use the Launch() function without the “body” seen in the examples above. If you just say Launch(“SMS” & Gallery1.Selected.address1_telephone2), it will launch the SMS/texting app on your phone with the customer’s phone number filled in. This gives you the ability to seamlessly transition from the PowerApps to your native texting app to send personalized messages to your customer.
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Happy PowerApps’ing!
Enhancing Customer Experience with PowerApps and Chatbots
When researching or buying a product or service, a customer has several touchpoints with a company – these can include a salesperson, technical engineer, financial adviser, retail store employee, field technician, and many others. Through all these touchpoints, the customer is expecting a smooth, easy, and pleasant buying experience. For this to happen, all internal employees must be certain they’re providing the right information at the right time to their customers, which begs the question: do our employees have access to the right information, tools, and people to provide good and accurate information to the customer?
Many times, the issue that arises in this endeavor has nothing to do with providing information to customers or prospects – instead, it’s that our own employees may not be familiar with the processes in place and may need help getting their questions answered to get comfortable with the process. Here are a few examples:
- “What PowerPoint template should I use for my presentation with the prospect? There are so many!”
- “Do we give discounts to Non-Profits?”
- “My prospect is asking for a demo this week. How do I get technical sales involved?”
- “Is there a document I can read to get familiar with our sales process?”
All employees who accompany our customers on their buying journeys may have such questions. So, the question becomes, how do we ensure they are empowered every step of the customer journey and have access to the right information at their fingertips? In today’s blog, we’ll answer that question!
PowerApps + Chatbots
First, let’s quickly discuss chatbots and attempt to debunk some preconceived notions about them. In our experience, when most people think about chatbots, they automatically and immediately associate them with customer service. It seems they picture a customer wanting an update on their delivery status, so they go to a website, start a chat, ask a question about their delivery status, and boom! They immediately get a bot-powered response. Now, it’s great that customer service for end-consumers is the first thing that comes to mind, but chatbots can be used in so many other scenarios besides just tier-one customer service.
Let’s revisit one of the questions we posted above: “What PowerPoint template should I use for my presentation?” This is an innocuous question asked by a salesperson – can we not have a bot answer that question for them?
Yes, of course we can! Not just this, but many other process-, product-, or service-related questions, as well. And what this means is that your employees are not emailing, texting, or calling each other to find the right information. In times of needs, a beloved bot can be at their service and help them out immediately!
Let’s look at a few more possibilities:
- A Financial Planner goes to a meeting with an investor and accesses production-sales data from their mobile device. Can that Financial Planner ask the bot for recommendations on the best next action, product, or investment approach? Yes, of course! And a bot will provide them with responses and guide them through the process.
- A consumer walks into a retail store and wants to know where the slim-fit jeans are. Can they just walk up to a kiosk and ask? Yes, of course! And a bot can instantly provide the right information.
How to Create a Chatbot
A chatbot can be created in a variety of different ways. In this example, we’ll describe a specific bot from QnA Maker, which we’re using for two important reasons:
- It’s a no-code solution. Yes, you read that right: it requires zero coding!
- It can be surfaced easily in PowerApps through an out-of-the-box connector.
Indeed, QnA Maker is one of the easiest chatbots out there. Simply go to www.qnamaker.ai, sign in with your Microsoft account, and click <Create a knowledge base>. The page walks you through some very quick and easy steps, and before you know it, your bot is ready!
Once your QnA Maker chatbot is ready, you can use the QnA Maker connector in PowerApps to surface it in your app. Now, using a phone, tablet, or computer, anyone in your organization can access this bot to get answers to their questions!
Note: To see how to surface a QnA Maker chatbot in PowerApps, watch this live webinar
on Thursday, 11/8/2018.
What is the experience like? See for yourself:
Salespeople, Financial Planners, field technicians, customers at an in-store kiosk, and anyone else you can imagine… everyone can get their questions answered in a matter of seconds!
Who is it for?
Currently, the licensing for PowerApps does not allow for apps to be exposed to customers, although your employees with Office 365 accounts can always access any app. In other words, while your customers will not be able to access the app directly on their own device, your organization can use this chatbot app to enhance customer experiences. In addition, using PowerApps on your own devices, you can make these apps available at an in-store kiosk where anyone, including customers, can walk right up to it and get “self-service” answers to their questions.
Bringing it all together
Businesses of all sizes have various employees interacting with customers at several stages of their selling process. The goal of any successful business should be to not just close a sale, but to wow their customers in the process, gaining their trust for a long-lasting relationship. None of this is possible if we don’t provide our own employees with the right knowledge, ability, and tools to help our customers. In pursuit of enhancing consumer experiences, solutions like chatbots and PowerApps play a small yet crucial role. “No code/low code” platforms (which also tend to be “no cost/low cost”) are becoming increasingly viable solutions for many business scenarios, and PowerApps and QnA Maker are just a couple of examples.
If you want to empower your employees with the right knowledge, ability, and tools, please explore these platforms for your needs – and you can start by joining us on 11/8 for a live webinar.
Happy D365’ing!
Fill Your “Last Mile” Gaps with PowerApps
“Last mile” is a major buzzword right now, especially as it relates to PowerApps. To understand the concept behind the buzz, let’s consider a company that spends millions of dollars on CRM and other software to help induce customers to buy their product. Perhaps the various parts of said product are created in multiple countries, shipped to the US, and driven across the country to stores or warehouses to facilitate a customer’s purchase, all of which is nicely tracked in the CRM. Then, after all that complexity, the sale falls apart in the “last mile,” which is the seemingly simple act of delivering said product to the customer’s house.
This is a big issue across industries right now, as customers have high (and constantly increasing) expectations for flawless execution, service, delivery, etc. To that end, it is becoming tougher every day to meet the standards set by the likes of Uber and Amazon, and thus “last mile” gaps are created.
In this blog post, we will show you how you can build last mile solutions to ensure your users:
- Can get what they want, when they want it, wherever they are.
- Can get information easily, seamlessly, and painlessly.
- Adopt the bigger Dynamics 365 implementation through these apps!
In the example below, we’ll look at how an employee who is always (or mostly) on the road can use a PowerApps app to:
- Easily communicate with customers through phone calls and text messaging.
- Get driving directions to customer locations.
- Email customers and coworkers.
- Schedule appointments.
…all with minimal clicks!
In the home screen below, we have a list of contacts that the user owns. (Note this “gallery” can be filtered based on various conditions.) For each contact, we can do the following with a single click:
- Call
- Text/SMS
- Get driving directions to their location from user’s current location
- Check calendar + schedule appointments
Digression: At the very bottom is a “robot” icon. We have integrated a QnaMaker.ai chatbot with this app that does not require any coding. More on that in an upcoming blog post!
Notice that not all contacts have the same icons. That is intentional! If we don’t have a contact’s mobile number, we make our users know that by hiding the call and text icons (another option is to “gray out” the icons).
The first three icons under Yvonne McKay perform calling, texting, and getting driving directions – with a single click, as shown in the video below:
Clicking on Yvonne’s fourth icon takes us to the next screen, where we can add as many email addresses as we want, compose an email, and send it to everyone.
Note: The email screen integrates PowerApps with Exchange, making it a breeze to find coworkers to add to emails.
Clicking the final icon for each of our contacts allows the user to do two things: check calendar and schedule appointments. As a bonus, our app once again connects to Exchange to:
- Show the current user’s appointments first
- Schedule meetings with coworkers – by picking a date and duration of the meeting, the app shows all the times that work for everyone without conflicts.
The screen is doing a lot here, and the coolest part is that we’re using one of the out-of-the-box screens that are available within PowerApps. In other words, you wouldn’t need to write a single formula to adopt this functionality!
Bringing it All Together
So, what are we really doing here? Essentially, four things:
- Surfacing information from a certain data source. In our example, contacts are coming from Dynamics 365, but the source can be SharePoint, Excel, or any other.
- Providing users the ability to interact with their customers and co-workers easily, creating a wow! factor for everyone involved.
- Encouraging user adoption.
- Helping to close those last mile gaps!
Apps like this one are extremely quick and easy to build. In our next blog post, we’ll show you the formulas that our PowerApps designers used to build this app. Until then, learn more about PowerApps here.
As always, Happy D365’ing!
D365 in Focus: PowerApps Demo [VIDEO]
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Watch our Power Platform Capability Manager build a fully functioning app – all within minutes! This video showcases the creation of an app that empowers traveling agents and salespeople with single-click options to call, text, and get driving directions to their clients and prospects. Although this is just one of countless functionalities that can easily be built out with PowerApps, you’ll see the drag-and-drop actions and Excel-like formulas that differentiate PowerApps from other app builders.
When to use Dynamics 365 Connector or Common Data Services in PowerApps
Word’s out! PowerObjects hosted its first ever hackathon in July. Great apps were built PowerApps by team members across the globe, and you can check them out here. With all the development accomplished in a few hours, many lessons were learned. In this blog post, we’ll be sharing one of the lessons learned by the team.
Spoiler Alert: If you can’t find an entity in the Data Source’s tables list, it is not the right connection for your scenario
Using Connections
With PowerApps, you can create intuitive applications connected to your organization’s Dynamics 365 data. You can create, update, and see Dynamics 365 records right within your app. Common Data Services (CDS) and the Dynamics 365 Connector are considered standard connections, and can be used to connect to your Dynamics 365 data. You can also use CDS to create and customize entities from PowerApps.
To learn more about Connectors, and how to connect, review Microsoft’s PowerApps guide here.
First attempt
For one of the use cases, we wanted a user to be able to create a Lead within PowerApps. To connect the app to the Dynamics 365 data in the organization, we first added a data source.
From the available Data Connections, we selected CDS.
To choose a table (entity), we searched for Leads.
Look again at the image, and you’ll notice the Leads table is not available. This takes us to the lesson learned: not all out-of-the-box (OOB) entities are currently available in CDS. When working with OOB entities and choosing your data source, visit PowerApps’ Entity Reference to identify if the desired entity is currently available.
But we still need to build an app, right? A lesson learned is complete when there’s a solution for it.
Dynamics 365 Connector
Microsoft is still updating the Common Data Model, and new entities are expected to be available in the future. In the meantime, the Dynamics 365 Connector is an excellent alternative to connect to the data. The solution is to repeat the previous steps; this time selecting the Dynamics 365 Connector.
Choose View > Data Sources > Add a Data Source. From the available Data Connections, select Dynamics 365.
Search through the tables for Leads. Success! You are able to connect to the out of the box Leads entity.
Now connected to Leads, you can continue building the app. If you wish to learn more about the Dynamics 365 Connector, check this list of formulas you can use to complete and deploy your app.
Happy D365’ing!
8/2 Webinar: See how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps and the reports they need by Daniel Christian
Join Charles Sterling and one of the Power BI, PowerApps and Flow MVPs Daniel Christian (a triple crown awardee!) as Daniel covers how PowerApps and PowerBI can provide school teachers the apps with reports.
Session Abstract:
Education should be the #1 priority and school teachers should be provided all the tools they need. PowerApps, Flow and Power BI can be part of those tools. In this webinar Daniel Christian, Microsoft MVP will demonstrate how his educational app and report can help school teachers monitor the performance of their students. Daniel will demonstrated his PowerApp and Power BI report leverages the back end data to provide valuable insights.
When: 8/2/2018 8AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeDmLwU2YC0
About Daniel Christian
Daniel Christian has over 11 years of SharePoint experience starting with SharePoint Portal 2003 . His area of expertise includes SharePoint On-Premises architecture, maintenance and administration, SharePoint Online administration. He is a big fan of building no-code solutions and reporting. Currently, he is focused on PowerApps and its integration using Gateway with SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016. Besides writing blogs, Daniel enjoys working with musical holiday lights and photography. Here’s the YouTube playlist of his 2016 holiday lights.
PowerApps Hackathon Event Recap
On July 1, PowerObjects hosted its first ever company-wide hackathon. The goal of the daylong competition was to empower PowerObjects employees to truly “Live the Technology” and gain hands-on experience with Microsoft PowerApps. PowerApps is one of Microsoft’s Business Applications that allows users to create custom mobile apps on a cell phone, tablet, or computer without any coding or development experience.
We had a tremendous day with nearly 20 different apps created across the globe, showcasing rapid development in PowerApps! We learned a lot and at the end of the day we increased our organizational knowledge around this very powerful tool. Check out a few of the apps that our employees created during the PowerApps Hackathon.
GPS Locator
Connectors: Flow, Bing Maps and Dynamics 365
What the App Does:
This apps allows users to quickly view nearby records by utilizing their physical (GPS) location and displaying all customers within a given radius based on the address field entered in Dynamics 365.
How it works:
By connecting Microsoft Flow to Dynamics 365, users are able to capture the geo-codes of the out-of-the box address fields (street, city, county, country, zip code) and map the data to the address 1: latitude and longitude fields. Using BingMaps API in Microsoft Flows, the latitude and longitude data is returned in to PowerApps. Displaying a list of nearby customers along with their record details.
Delivery Tracking
Connectors: Azure and Google Maps
What the App Does:
This app is designed to allow drivers to view a dynamic list of deliveries scheduled for a specific day with an optimized route and barcode scanner to track delivered packages.
How it works:
Azure Functions and Flow are used to call Google Maps API, which launches an in app navigation screen that displays the optimized route for the current deliveries scheduled for the truck. The PowerApps Media Barcode can then be used to scan barcodes on packages to indicate a successful delivery. Once a package is successfully delivered the app automatically updates and begins navigating to the next location.
Field Reporting
Connectors: Dynamics 365
What the App Does:
One of our current customers needed an app that all employees can use when in the field or during off-hours to collect information needed to create a new opportunity.
How it works:
This app connects to the Dynamics 365 entity “Opportunity Create” that allows team members to easily schedule a follow-up communication and assign that activity to the appropriate project manager or owner in CRM. The user can collect data and on-site photos from the potential customer and associate the information to an existing record in Dynamics 365. The data collected in the “OpportunityCreated” entity then ties to a dashboard to allow CRM to review the contact information collected and create a formal opportunity via their existing native processes.
PowerScan
Connectors: Dynamics 365
What the App Does:
This app allows you to use your mobile device to scan bar codes, QR codes, and business cards to deposit data into Dynamics 365. Instead of having to purchase a third-party scanner at a trade show to do the exact same thing and then get a CSV file to import into Dynamics 365. The app scans this information at trade shows, events or just anytime where you can verify the information, then qualifies and assigns the leads in real time.
How it works:
The out-of-the box PowerApps Camera captures and stores images as Notes or Attachments using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Text. These notes are can then be set Regarding to the Trade Show Lead record. OCR Text is processed with Regular Expressions to determine the type of data. Name, Email, Telephone, Address, etc., is saved to the Trade Show Lead record. From here, PowerApps can be used to launch Google Maps for driving directions, send emails or call a lead directly.
Want to see these apps in action?
PowerObjects is a Platinum Sponsor at this year’s Microsoft Business Applications Summit happening in Seattle, Washington July 22-24. Be sure to visit our team of experts at booth #1 for exclusive demos and experience the power of Microsoft’s end-to-end Business Application Platform solutions for yourself. You can register for the conference with our code: HCL100dc to receive a $ 100 discount.
Happy D365’ing!
Checking for Consecutive Repeating Characters in PowerApps
Today’s blog will walk through how you can check for repeating characters within PowerApps. We at PowerObjects are excited about the functionality of PowerApps and their potential for reducing the time for developing mobile apps. There are many resources to get up and running, including our webinars.
The challenge with checking for repeating characters is that the PowerApps platform does not allow for writing loops within the PowerApps designer. How can you check if char4 = char5 = char6 within a full string? The solution is to leverage regular expressions. JavaScript regular expressions work in PowerApps.
The solution for this use case is to use the IsMatch (Text, Pattern [,Options]) function with the Contains option and combining special characters “.” and “\x” and “{n,m}” to get the desired regular expression pattern: (.)\x{n}
Let’s walk through an example of how to apply these pieces by creating a simple screen.
Steps overview:
- Insert a Text Field.
- Insert two icons.
- Set one icon to display and the other to not display if there are three consecutive repeating characters.
- Test it out.
Step 1 – Insert a Text Field
Step 2
Step 3
Set one icon to display and the other to not display if there are three consecutive repeating characters
Input the following expressions in the Visible property of the icons:
Icon 1: If(IsMatch(TextInput1.Text,”(.){2}”,Contains),true,false)
Icon 2: If(IsMatch(TextInput1.Text,”(.){2}”,Contains),false,true)
Let’s break down what each piece means:
IsMatch – checks if the input text matches what you specify in this function
(.) – match any character except a newline character
– remembers 1 preceding character
{2} – matches at least 2 occurrences of the preceding character (exclude the “m” in {n,m} because we are not limiting the number of characters in the string)
Contains – the string specified is within the input text
Step 4 – Test it out
The happy emoji should display only when there are no three consecutive repeating characters, including letters and numbers.
Congratulations! You just executed a workaround for the known limitation that PowerApps do not support programming loops. This is particularly helpful if you need to validate password inputs. You can learn more about the Dynamics 365 Spring 2018 Update for PowerApps in this blog.
Want to learn more about how PowerApps and Microsoft Business Applications can benefit your organization? Join PowerObjects, this year’s Platinum Sponsor, at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit on July 22-24 in Seattle. Register with our code: HCL100dc to receive a $ 100 discount.
Happy Dynamics 365’ing!
6/14 Webinar: Inside the Universal Audit App: See what PowerApps and Flow are capable of by Paul Culmsee
This week have another Australian join me to cover off one of my favorite topics….using PowerApps and Flow to deliver applications that traditionally require a development and devops team!
Inside the Universal Audit App: See what PowerApps and Flow are capable of by Paul Culmsee
This popular app in the PowerApps showcase has resulted in 3-5 requests a week for this app. As a result it has been deployed all around the world. In this session Paul will show how it was conceived, how we leveraged PowerApps and Flow to their full potential and what customization have been done for clients. A great accompaniment session for those looking to get started by showing a complete solution in use around the world…
When June 14th 2018 6pm PST (NOTE the time!)
Getting Started with PowerApps with Dynamics 365
What is PowerApps?
PowerApps was first , and was meant to address 3 problem areas:
- Not enough skilled mobile developers.
- Business data proliferation.
- IT agility and app sharing.
, PowerApps “is a service that lets you build business apps that run in a browser or on a phone or tablet, and no coding experience is required.”
Also, PowerApps is not the same as the App Designer within Dynamics 365. I have covered this topic in my previous article “Designing a Custom App in Dynamics 365″.
Why would I need PowerApps?
You may be asking yourself this question. Maybe the real question should be, “Is there a need that PowerApps could fill?” Since PowerApps may be new to you, you may not be aware of needs that it could fill.
The purpose of PowerApps is to provide a mobile app experience for your users that is tailored to your business need(s). And, PowerApps, allows you to customize the look and feel to match your brand. Additionally, PowerApps can connect to multiple data sources to provide an intuitive experience for your users.
Note: You can find PowerApps Use Cases .
Is PowerApps included with my Dynamics 365 subscription?
Before you try to access PowerApps, you should check to see if you have the correct Dynamics 365 subscription.
Note: You should review to see which subscriptions include PowerApps.
How do I access PowerApps?
PowerApps can be accessed in several ways which we will cover here.
Office 365
Depending on you subscription, you can access PowerApps through the Office 365 site. Next, navigate to , log in, and you should see PowerApps listed.
Then, click on the PowerApps option listed and this will launch the PowerApps site.
Office 365 Admin Center
PowerApps can be accessed through the Office 365 Admin Center. First, navigate to , and log in. Keep in mind, you must be a Global Administrator to access the Office 365 Admin Center.
Second, scroll down the left-hand menu and expand the “Admin center” option. Now, you should notice PowerApps listed in the menu.
Third, click on the PowerApps option listed and this will launch the PowerApps site.
PowerApps sites
Finally, you can access PowerApps directly through the PowerApps sites. There are a couple of sites you need to be aware of.
First, there is the PowerApps Admin site. This can be accessed through the Office 365 Admin Center as mentioned above, or you can navigate directly to .
This site is where you will manage your Environments, Data Policies, and Data Integration.
Secondly, there is the main PowerApps site where you will create your PowerApps. This site is based on the Environment(s) created within the PowerApps Admin site. This site can be accessed by navigating to .
How do I create a PowerApp?
Now that you understand what PowerApps is and how to access the sites, it’s time to create your first app. First, navigate to . Next, you will log in and be taken to a page similar to the below screen shot.
You should take note of a few areas on this screen before continuing.
Navigating the PowerApps Site
First, you can access the different areas of the PowerApps site using the navigation on the left-hand side.
Secondly, you may notice that there is an option in the bottom, left-hand corner. This option allows you to toggle the Design Mode between or .
Thirdly, you can start your app building from the Home screen using a template or you can start from scratch.
Lastly, you should note the option in the top, right-hand corner. You are able to switch to a different environment using this option.
Creating the App
Now comes the creative part! Let’s dive into creating the app.
From the home screen, you will need to select a option to start the creation process. For this example, we are using the option named “Start from data”. This option will start you with 3 screens: Browse, Detail, and Edit.
Next, you will be taken to a page to choose the data source. In our example, we will choose “Dynamics 365″.
You will now be presented with a screen to choose a table (dataset).
For our example, we will choose the Contacts table. Simply type “contacts” into the search field and click on “Contacts”, and then click “Connect” in the bottom, right-hand corner.
After you click “Connect”, you will see a screen that says “Building your app…”
After the app is built, you will now see the editor screen.
Testing the App
One of the nice features of the editor is there is a way to preview/test the app to see if the screen behavior is working as intended. Simply click the “Preview the app” button in the upper right corner.
Saving and Publishing the App
The features and details of using the app editor would take a series of posts to cover. So, for simplicity, I will explain how to save and publish the app. Then we will cover previewing the app on the phone.
After you have edited the app the way you want it to look and behave, click on “File” in the upper left corner. Then, you will click on “Save”.
Next, you will click “Publish”.
You will be prompted again to “Publish this version”.
After the app is published, you can share the app by clicking the “Share this app” button.
You will prompted with a screen to enter the Names, Email Address, or User Groups. Additionally, you have the option to “Add everyone in my org”.
How do I get the app on my mobile device?
Now that the app is published, you can access the app on your mobile device. You will need to download the PowerApps app from app store. Once installed, open the app and log in with your credentials.
After you have logged in, you will see a screen with the published apps.
Open the app and you will now see the search screen.
Now, you can search for a contact record.
Once you see the contact record you search for, you can tap it to open the record and view the details.
In closing
As you can see, creating an app with PowerApps is easy to do and easy to share. The next step is for you to use your creativity paired with your company needs and create your own PowerApp!