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Power Apps Portals Configure SharePoint File Upload Size Limit

Posted: September 6, 2020 in Power Platform
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There is a default single file size upload limit of 10 MB in Power Apps Portal with SharePoint Online integration. This can be configured to 50 MB. I have explained how to make the change on this post.

If you are coming from CRM world, probably it is an easy change on the Power Apps Portal. However, if you have never used CRM system there is no instruction on how to make this change. There is only one sentence in Microsoft documentation, which does not make sense if it is your first time configuring Power Apps Portal.

1- Navigate to Portal Site Settings

To navigate to portal site settings you can either go to Portal Management App then Site Settings. You can also click on Portal Settings and select “Site settings” from the right drawer window.

2- Insert new settings

Make sure Site Settings is selected on the left navigation then click New from the top menu.

Type on the Name exactly SharePoint/MaxUploadSize, choose your portal for Website field and type 50000 (in KB) on the Value field. You can also type some descriptions. Finally, click “Save & Close” and you might need to refresh the cache for your Portal and the settings should take effect immediately.

Custom Power Apps Notification

Posted: July 28, 2020 in Power App, Power Platform
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Normally you will use push notification to send notification to users in Power Apps mobile application but what happens when majority of your users are using desktop browser for Power Apps!

In this post, I will explain how you can use your data source to push notifications to your Power Apps. I will use SharePoint online as data source but you can use any other data source for the notification.

1- Configure SharePoint List

Create a SharePoint custom list that contains at least three columns as shown on the screenshot below.

Go to your Power Apps details and copy the App ID

Insert a new item into the list with the App ID copied from previous step

For the Notifications field you can put an html something list this:

<html>
<body>
<h1 style="background-color: red; color: white">Very Important Notification</h1>
<h3>Click on the link below to watch the instruction video of the new procedure</h3><br>
<div style="display: flex;">
<a href="https://hikmatune.sharepoint.com/Shared%20Documents/Aerial%20Shot%20Of%20Seacoast.mp4">Watch Video</a>
<hr>
<img src="https://hikmatune.sharepoint.com/Shared%20Documents/faces.jfif" width="300" height="200" />
</div>
</body>
</html>

Make sure your sources are readable by all users i.e. everyone has permission to see the image and video

2- Configure Power Apps

Add SharePoint List as Data Source into your Power Apps.

Then use the list to lookup the notification and set a variable in Power Apps OnStart action:

Set(glbNotification, If(Len(LookUp(PowerApps, PowerAppID = "29e3aff6-badf-43bc-89ed-fccb3725cacf",Notifications))>10, true, false));

Notice, only set the globe notification variable to true if the the notification length is greater than 10, i.e. if the there is no notification the variable will be false.

On your Power Apps screen add a HTML Text control and set the visible property to “glbNotification”

The HTMLText Control should do another lookup to show the notification.

LookUp(PowerApps, PowerAppID = "29e3aff6-badf-43bc-89ed-fccb3725cacf",Notifications)

This is how the message will show up for the users regardless of desktop browser and Power Apps on mobile or tablet.

You can embed any html, the exit button sets the glbNotification to false i.e. Set(glbNotification,false). This way the message only shows up on the start up not when user navigate to other screens and come back to home.