Building Your First Power App to Update Excel Workbooks 💪 [Episode 29]

Learn how to build a simple Power App that uses Excel as a source for updating, inserting and deleting data. Also see how to auto increment a key or a number in Power Apps.
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  • @Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial
    @Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial4 жыл бұрын

    I'm impressed, this looks comprehensive and functional. You presented the information very well, Thank You.

  • @umeshpatle8212
    @umeshpatle82123 жыл бұрын

    I started a POC for a new requirement and this video helped me a lot. well explained. thank you so much.

  • @yamasthegeek
    @yamasthegeek3 жыл бұрын

    Really good video, very well explained. Thank you.

  • @sunshine9497
    @sunshine94973 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video! Q: is it possible to generate multiple Excel rows from one New form input? I need to track multiple date entries, and require a separate record for each date a user has selected. Thank you!

  • @warrenanderson6014
    @warrenanderson60143 жыл бұрын

    Great video demonstration! Is it possible use Forms in Excel to connect to Power Apps? Thank you!

  • @oscamontesyttf9272
    @oscamontesyttf92722 жыл бұрын

    Gracias,eres lo maximo. Thanks u are the best.

  • @MohammadAli-ts2ev
    @MohammadAli-ts2ev2 жыл бұрын

    Great video...it's, indeed, very informative.. @Pragmatic Work -. Can you plz make a video on the issue we experience while picking up DATE to edit form from Excel online (for business). The date picker simply goes blank and it doesn't pick up date from Excel table (date column) while other details from the table appear correctly. Any get around will help many of the people. I got the same issue posted by someone on powerplatform community but none of the answers fixed the issue..

  • @TheMakIraq
    @TheMakIraq3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tutorial, I am having an issue that the SortDescending1 is not recognized, any thoughts?

  • @meavis11
    @meavis114 жыл бұрын

    Hi, Thanks for the really helpful video. Is there a way to change the date format to be DD/MM/YYYY? Thanks again for all your help!

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sure thing. The TEXT function can power that for you. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-text

  • @PValili
    @PValili Жыл бұрын

    Cool 👍👍

  • @subhadeepsarkar1039
    @subhadeepsarkar1039 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, can we compare two tables from different excel sheets and see if the records are same or not using the Power apps? Please help.

  • @jimreydaps
    @jimreydaps3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Pragmatic Works, I've got an Excel spreadsheet which has a column of weblinks. But when I've connected via Powerapps, the URLs aren't live, they are just text and can't be clicked and don't link.

  • @VerticalVlogger
    @VerticalVlogger3 жыл бұрын

    I have shifted my excel file from OneDrive to Sharepoint communication site in documents folder. Now I need to update the Data sources for my PowerApps, to point to the excel file table in sharepoint. How do I do it ?

  • @safifaruqi
    @safifaruqi2 жыл бұрын

    great tutorial I was able to follow through and build out an app! but I have run into a problem I cant seem to figure out. My form was working fine until randomly one day, without giving me an error, it started to blank out a few fields in excel. Basically what is happening is that certain dropdowns on my form, though filled out in the form, are not being onto excel. These fields though filled on the powerapps form are showing up as blanks on the excel sheet hosted on OneDrive. I checked the update property of these fields and they are fine but no data to show in the excel record. These are about 3-4 dropdowns only, the rest of the dropdowns on the form populate just fine and the form does not give me any error. Super confused and cant find any info online to help me out. Thanks anyone kind enough to be able to help me out here.

  • @nazarinnordin3411
    @nazarinnordin34112 жыл бұрын

    Hi. Is it possible to let a new user add himself through the mobile app? Thus, automatically updating his data in Excel? Thank you.

  • @alancealance
    @alancealance Жыл бұрын

    Really cool. Can I get it to search more than 500 excel rows?

  • @fapfapfap26
    @fapfapfap263 жыл бұрын

    mac users needs control click in order to be able to interact with the app buttons

  • @kanwalsaini9717
    @kanwalsaini97173 жыл бұрын

    Hi , Is it possible to read and update the information stored in excel file present in Sharepoint using Powerapps? instead of onedrive as the data source.

  • @emilpinter5772
    @emilpinter5772 Жыл бұрын

    Hello , good job. But one question : is it possible to connect from Power App to personal OneDrive of user who is starting the App ? I mean every user has the same Excel with the same name.

  • @kanishkaroychowdhury4050
    @kanishkaroychowdhury40504 жыл бұрын

    hello sir, how will i pull the selected record in the detail screen? i am new in powerapp

  • @muhammadsamikhan9532
    @muhammadsamikhan95323 жыл бұрын

    How to get record from other users? E. G i want my team to write how tall are you using app and then same data automatically reflect in excel sheet ?

  • @kuba94ziom
    @kuba94ziom4 жыл бұрын

    Hello, thank you for this excellent video! But i have a question for you. On my OneDrive i have prepared excel file (as you). I build an app and i can add and edit information (forms) in this excel so on my phone it works very well. I shared this app with my friend. He can open app, browse information that i put before but the problem is he cannot submit any new form! Errors like "Failed to read metadata from file source" even if i shared this file in onedrive in several ways. Could you give me some advice? thank you!

  • @subjecttochrist

    @subjecttochrist

    3 жыл бұрын

    sounds like a permissions issue in your one drive. can you share on your one drive?

  • @CharlesGramazzo
    @CharlesGramazzo3 жыл бұрын

    Hello!! I hope you're fine! I'm creating an app (Canvas), but i do not know how to show only a week, for example, i have a lot information in the same week (5 rows), but what a need is, show only, for example, Week 25 and then, after click in the option, will show all inserts of this week. What a have now is, ex. Week 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 26, 25 etc... not , 25, 26, 27 etc... i was unable to find any info about this. Many thanks for you help :)

  • @michaelmcdonald3275
    @michaelmcdonald32754 жыл бұрын

    When creating a new employee, if I take the last employeeid and add 1 - is this controlling the sequence of the insert to the degree that if someone else was running the same operation there would not be a possibility of an ID collision ?

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi @Michael, good point! I think I even warned in the video about your statement there too. For Excel, you can absolutely risk a collision if multiple people have that screen at the same time open. That said, Excel would also likely giving you a sharing violation error. That's why it would likely make sense to use SharePoint or SQL Server instead and use their autonumber functions like Identity.

  • @ThreeDigitIQ
    @ThreeDigitIQ4 жыл бұрын

    Could you post an updated video on this. The option to "start from data" is no longer available and I cannot proceed to step two.

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    I just double-checked and it is still there. Make sure you go to make.poweapps.com to see that option. You'll then select Excel Online.

  • @kingparc
    @kingparc5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this tutorial and for all others videos that you made. I have just 1 question, please, can give us the name of the app that you use to zoom and to draw red circles during your presentation ? thanks

  • @BrianSKnight

    @BrianSKnight

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sure thing, I use Zoomit. It's free on the Microsoft site. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit

  • @komalpagare961
    @komalpagare9614 жыл бұрын

    Hi I want to develop a form using power app particular person worked how many hours on particular task and calculate total number of hours per month and I want data to maintain in excel sheet but employee couldn't modify that data after filling once any suggestions plz

  • @mohitjagad
    @mohitjagad3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this tutorial.. Can u also please share , on how to use this app on Android phone as a mobile application.

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    3 жыл бұрын

    You'll find the Power Apps app in the Play store. Once you install it, your app you built will show up after you sign in.

  • @mohitjagad

    @mohitjagad

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PragmaticWorks oh that's great. Thanks .. 👍. Sure then will check that out.👍

  • @prateeksrivas89
    @prateeksrivas89 Жыл бұрын

    What to do if I don't want to share the excel file where data is stored? I mean like users enter in a form type of thing and data is stored like you showed. But raw data file remains unshared to avoid data Manipulation later

  • @vineethr2k7
    @vineethr2k73 жыл бұрын

    Can you make a video on Approval Flows

  • @JayCalderon
    @JayCalderon4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this tutorial. One question... How to just have "Date" value without "Time" value? Because when you add/edit the Date field, Date & Time gets added to Excel. Just want Date added to Excel. Thanks in advance.

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can absolutely do that as well.

  • @Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial

    @Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@PragmaticWorks How?!

  • @vinodkukanur
    @vinodkukanur Жыл бұрын

    Hi can you please guide me how to create powerapp with 20-30 columns?

  • @chanelling3972
    @chanelling39724 жыл бұрын

    Can you change the datetime form to date only?

  • @joanmendoza7209
    @joanmendoza72093 жыл бұрын

    Is it possible two get and write data from excel spreadsheet located in SharePoint?

  • @Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial
    @Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial3 жыл бұрын

    How the hell do you show the date field on the default gallery so you can sort by it etc?!

  • @BullsBadri
    @BullsBadri4 жыл бұрын

    Hi, is there any limitations to store data in excel using Poweraaps? I have created a form using Poweraaps n storing the input in excel. I read the interface can get/read only maximum 2000 records, my question is using form can we add more than 2000 form responses ? I can download the Excel file from Onedrive n analyse the report.

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    The 2000 record you're referring to is for delegation (when it can't figure out how to query the system). You're only limitted by the number of rows that are in your system.

  • @FleedX
    @FleedX4 жыл бұрын

    How do I edit records in PowerApps and have the OneDrive excel document open at the same time

  • @martincontreras5030

    @martincontreras5030

    3 жыл бұрын

    im afraid thats impossible my nigga...

  • @jgarris0577

    @jgarris0577

    3 жыл бұрын

    I concur

  • @dcm9058
    @dcm90584 жыл бұрын

    i want to use email id's as login access to my app. can you share a code that may help me? :) thanks

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sure that's all logged with the User().Email function.

  • @zackziss
    @zackziss4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video, How to connect to to multiple to sheets of the same Excel file modify the entries

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    You would just import each sheet in the connectors area. To update both sheets at the same time you can use SubmitForm or Patch

  • @genipheregnangue2615
    @genipheregnangue26153 жыл бұрын

    hello sir, i have followed your step, however i have an array of 18,000 values ​​so power apps only takes the first 500 values. could you help me please.

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's due to a delegation error likely. Something in your code is not parsing. You can changing your delegation setting under File --> Settings --> Advanced Settings but you want to fix the code likely so it doesn't cause that.

  • @JeffersonMartinSynfluent
    @JeffersonMartinSynfluent5 жыл бұрын

    How did you make the tablet version of the app?

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi Jefferson, you can go to File --> App Settings to set a different mode there.

  • @adewangan95
    @adewangan9510 ай бұрын

    how to handle the case when multiple users are entering the data at the same time?

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    10 ай бұрын

    It operates much the same way as Excel in Onedrive where you can have multiple editors. The last in wins. That said, it sometimes leads to errors and that's why you may want to consiider SharePoint or SQL Server.

  • @rajeshmanchikanti707
    @rajeshmanchikanti7074 жыл бұрын

    how to get distinct values for Employee, Assume that my data does not have unique values.

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is a distinct clause inside of Power Apps but if the data is in SQL Server, you would likely want to build a view that did that grouping of data there instead.

  • @deividspiv6659
    @deividspiv66592 жыл бұрын

    how can i add a new item in the excel file?

  • @leefreemanuk
    @leefreemanuk4 жыл бұрын

    “Error. The tables didn’t load correctly. Please try again.” I can’t get any further than that. Any suggestions?

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    It could be a sharing violation where the spreadsheet is still open.

  • @anantnd393
    @anantnd3933 жыл бұрын

    Is there a way I can connect to an Excel stored in SharePoint?

  • @subjecttochrist

    @subjecttochrist

    3 жыл бұрын

    did you figure this out? this is what i am dealing with as well.

  • @user-pp3xq1ot8l
    @user-pp3xq1ot8l4 жыл бұрын

    How to convert the Phone Layout to Tablet/Desktop Layout ?

  • @PragmaticWorks

    @PragmaticWorks

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can go to File --> Setting --> Screen Layout Orientation. There you can change how it's sized but if you built the app with a wizard, the options you see here might be more limited.