Using the Power Automate pane in Power Apps Studio, you can now build new flows, add existing flows, and even update existing flows. You don’t have to go to Power Automate to work with flows before going back to Power Apps Studio to change your app. You’ll need to activate the Power Automate pane setting to use this feature.

To activate the power automate pane,

• go to the top menu and select Settings.
• A window will open; from the left menu, pick “Upcoming features” and then “Enable Power Automate pane,”

To see the pane, restart the Canvas App.

After completing the preceding steps, close the app and reopen it from the app dashboard’s solution. Inside the canvas app, you can now see the Power Automate Pane.

You may now add flows to the canvas app and call them from there. You have the option of creating a new flow or using one that has already been created.

In the environment where you’re developing your app, you could have access to existing flows. Select Add flow, then select the flow from the Add a flow from this environment section to add and deploy it in your app.

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Some requirements call for a counter, so that when we type text into a text input, the label shows the maximum character or how many characters remain to be entered.

Take one label to display the counter and one text input with multiline text mode for this need.

Select the label and enter the following formula in the Text property.

Len(TextInput2.Text)

If you run a test, the counter will now display the text length in real time.

In Power Apps, we may use PowerFX to implement the day, month, year, hour, minute, second, and weekday concepts. Let’s take a closer look.

Day PowerFX

Day PowerFX returns the day component of the current time and date. Syntax : Day(Now()). This will give you the current date part. If the date is 12/21/2021 then the result will be 21.

PowerFX Month

The month component of the current time and date is returned by Month PowerFX. Month(Now()) is the syntax. This will provide you with the current month’s information. The outcome will be 12 if the date is 12/21/2021.

PowerFX Year

PowerFX Year returns the current time and date’s Year component. Year(Now()) is the syntax. This will provide you with the current year information. The result will be 2021 if the date is 12/21/2021.

PowerFX for an hour

Hour The hour component of the current time and date is returned by PowerFX. Hour(Now()) is the syntax. This will provide you with the current year information. The result will be 18 if the date is 12/21/2021 6:43 PM.

PowerFX Minute

Minute PowerFX returns the current time and date’s Minute component. Minute(Now()) is the syntax. This will provide you with the current year information. The result will be 46 if the date is 12/21/2021 6:46 PM.

Second PowerFX

Second PowerFX returns the current time and date’s second component. Second(Now()) is the syntax. This will provide you with the current year information. The result will be 32 if the date is 12/21/2021 6:46 PM and the timing is 32.

PowerFX weekday

The weekday component of the current time and date is returned by Weekday PowerFX. The result will be 3 if the date is 12/21/2021.

If you want to mention the beginning of the week, the outcome will be as follows: If the date is Tuesday, December 21st, 2021, Weekday(Now(), StartOfWe ek.Monday) will return 2.

We explored how to log or examine canvas application telemetry in Azure Application Insights in my previous post, “Application Insights And Telemetry For The Canvas App.” Now we’ll go through how to use PowerApps Monitor and Application Insights to view logs.

The logs for PowerApps can be examined in PowerApps Monitor or Azure Application Insights (App Insights).

Monitor PowerApps

We can track events, custom logs, and any user behaviour using the built-in PowerApps monitor. This tool can be used for app development as well as publication. To accomplish this,

1. Go to the PowerApps page.
2. Activate any app
3. On the left navigation menu, select “Advanced Tools.
4. This launches a new browser window, and monitoring begins immediately. This contains things like User Action, Function, and Network, among others.
5. To see more information, click on any row.
6. In the case of a published app,

1. Select Apps from the left pane.
2. Select Monitor from the menu after selecting an app from the list.
3. You can also pick More Commands (…) and then Monitor.

7. The Microsoft article about debugging can be found here. debugging

We log in different ways in different applications. We use the Trace feature in the Canvas app.

Canvas App’s Trace Function

Along with the built-in event tracing, the Trace expression can be used to provide additional information (Custom logging).

Syntax

Message – This field is required. The information to be tracked (Custom Logging)

Optional: trace severity In Application Insights, the severity level of the Trace. Information, Warning, or Error are the available options.

Custom record — This is an optional field. A record that will be saved in Application Insights and contains custom data.

JSON formatted custom record containing any custom data or logging information.

Example

• “Contacts Gallery Loaded”,TraceSeverity.Information) Trace(“Contacts Gallery Loaded”,TraceSeverity.Information)
• Trace(“Contacts Gallery Loaded”,TraceSeverity.Information, “Contacts Gallery Loaded”) Control: “OnStart,” Screen: App.ActiveScreen.Name)
• Trace(“Contacts Gallery Loaded”,TraceSeverity.Error, “Contacts Gallery Loaded”) Control: “Save Data,” Screen: App.ActiveScreen.Name)

In Application Insights, check at the logs

When the app insights are linked to a PowerApps Canvas Screen, telemetry like Screen Views, Duration, Custom Events, and Errors may be captured. This telemetry, if executed properly, can help you learn how people interact with the software.

Launch the app and perform some steps so that the system can collect data. App Insights now generates new events. These events will appear in the session information, or you can search them directly from the Logs.

We can utilise Azure Application Insights to construct an alert that will automatically tell the user or admin if errors are logged or if the number of errors in the app has suddenly increased.

1. Go to https://portal.azure.com to get started.
2. Open the App Insights we made and linked to the Canvas app.
3. On the left navigation, select “Logs.
4. Log queries are extremely versatile, allowing us to combine several databases, aggregate massive volumes of data, and execute complicated actions.
5. Here’s my request for trace logs:
6. An example of a query trace

where message contains “started,” “loaded,” or “Updated” | limit 50 | sort by timestamp desc

8.We can save the query for later use if we run it.

9. For in-depth examination, we can create a Power BI report.

I hope this information is useful to you. Good luck with your development!