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Two Virtual Workshops to Learn the Power BI Platform

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Take advantage of this exclusive opportunity to increase your data IQ from the comfort of your home wherever you are! Register today for my instructor-led digital training events and learn the Microsoft Power Platform consisting of Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate.

1-Day Power BI Dashboard in a Day (DIAD) Workshop

1-Day Application in a Day (AIAD) Workshop

The workshops will be conducted online. Login instructions will be sent to registered attendees before the event.

 

Getting to Power Apps Source Code

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As it stands, Power Apps doesn’t offer an easy way to get to the app source code. Yet, there are scenarios where this could be useful, including:

  1. Putting the app source under source control when the Power Apps version history is not enough. Currently, Power Apps doesn’t integrate with source code repos, such as GitHub.
  2. Finding references to an item. For example, I’ve referenced a collection in the wrong property, and I couldn’t find what triggered the collection load on the app startup. Since Power Apps doesn’t currently include dependency analysis for collections, I wanted to search the source code to find all references to it.

Here is the fastest way to get to the app source code:

  1. Open the app in edit mode and click Save As.
  2. Choose “This computer” and click Download to download the app as a *.msapp file
  3. Rename the extension of the downloaded file to zip. Double click the zip file.

In my case, the exported app has three *.json files in the Controls folder. The interesting code is in the largest json file: 3.json.

Open this file in your favorite JSON editor and this is how we get to the app source code.

Power Platform World Tour

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Organized by Microsoft and Dynamic Communities, the Power Platform World Tour will take a place in Atlanta from 2/10-2/12, 2020. I’m teaching Power BI Dashboard in a Day (DIAD) on Feb 10 for a full day. Although this is a paid event ($599), you should get a great business value as the audience will probably be smaller and I’ll be able to provide more personal attention. Then, I’ll present “Bridge Analytics and Developer Worlds with Power Platform” on Feb 12 and show how Power BI can integrate with Power Apps to allow you to change the data behind a report.