Friday 12 August 2016

Creating Power Apps with SharePoint on-premises data


Power Apps now supports creating an app from data stored in lists on a SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 on-premises site.

Below are the steps for creating a Power App based on on-premises data

1.      From the Power Apps studio  click New from the left navigation bar.

2.      Under “Create app from your data” select SharePoint.

3.      In the next screen select “Connect using on-premises data gateway” to connect to SharePoint on-premises.


4.      This would display additional fields for connection details.


5.      From the Authentication Type drop down choose your authentication type. Currently Windows and Basic authentication are supported for SharePoint on-premises.

6.      Provide user name and password for the connection.

7.      A gateway is required for creating an on-premises connection. If you don’t already have a gateway, you can create one by following the details listed here.

8.      Click “Connect” button to create the connection.

9.      In the connect to SharePoint site page enter the URL of SharePoint on-premises site and click Go


10.  This would display lists within the site. Select the list based on which you want to create the Power App and click Connect.

11.  The App screens with the fields form the list you had selected will be created.

12.  You can make required changes to the field and layout and save the App.

Note:

When you share a Power App that uses SharePoint on-premises connection, the gateway used by the SharePoint connection will also be shared implicitly.

Wednesday 3 August 2016

Modern List Experience in SharePoint Online


The modern experience for SharePoint announced in the Future of SharePoint Event will be starting to roll out to first release customers during in First week of August. Microsoft also has provisioned a method to get early preview of the modern list experience even before the First Release roll out by adding TryNewExperience=true query string to the list URL as specified in the article https://network.office.com/t5/Blogs/Modern-SharePoint-lists-are-here-Including-integration-with/ba-p/3027 .

New UI

The new UI for list is clean and has command bar instead of ribbons.



Information Pane

Clicking the information icon at the top right displays the information panel which lists the recent activities that happened on the list.



The information panel for a selected list item shows the list properties, recent activities and sharing information.



Edit Properties

Properties including attachments can be edited in the information panel



Bulk editing of list is made easy with the Quick edit option



Modifying List and Views

New columns can be easily added to the list by clicking the + icon



Columns can be renamed, reordered, sorted and filtered from the column context menu



Flow Integration

A flow can be created by clicking the Flow menu from the top and selecting Add a flow



Selecting a flow template would take you to flow designer with the list context.