Working with SharePoint Person Fields in Power Apps
Three reliable ways to populate a single-value SharePoint Person column from SharePoint choices, a controlled project-manager list, or Office 365 Users.
A practical engineering log for Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI work. Each post is a reusable note from real implementation problems and the way they were solved.
Browse all notesThree reliable ways to populate a single-value SharePoint Person column from SharePoint choices, a controlled project-manager list, or Office 365 Users.
A practical pattern for replacing SharePoint Lookup columns with numeric IDs and copied date fields to reduce delegation warnings and simplify filtering across related lists.
A repeatable way to identify formula bottlenecks, reduce over-fetching, and make screen loads feel faster.
Solving the SharePoint/Power Automate "Date Gap
Three reliable ways to populate a single-value SharePoint Person column from SharePoint choices, a controlled project-manager list, or Office 365 Users.
A practical pattern for replacing SharePoint Lookup columns with numeric IDs and copied date fields to reduce delegation warnings and simplify filtering across related lists.
A reusable Power Apps pattern for Google Places address suggestions, place details, session tokens, and parsed address components.
A practical Power Fx pattern for turning GatePass date, gate, section, and request status rules into readable validation logic.
A practical Power Fx refactoring pattern for using With() to remove repeated dropdown logic and add agency-specific section values.
A practical pre-deployment checklist for Power Apps, flows, connection references, service accounts, security roles, and SharePoint access.
Solving the SharePoint/Power Automate "Date Gap
A repeatable way to identify formula bottlenecks, reduce over-fetching, and make screen loads feel faster.
A practical pattern for joining visit requests with guest details and making gallery search work across related child records.