Introduction
In this article, we are going to see how PowerApps sort will work for Gallery Control and how it is useful to develop Power Platform Applications.
PowerApps is a service-oriented application used for developing custom apps for your organization.
Easily develop mobile and web apps for any business need—even if you have no technical or development experience—with Power Apps.
PowerApps helps us create simple apps quickly. Through PowerApps templates, we can customize our applications. With PowerApps, we can connect to our company data coming from
- Oracle
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Office365
- Azure
- Excel/CSV Files
It simplifies the development cycle of the business apps and equips the business users and developers to build custom native, mobile, and web applications.
Launch Canvas App
The steps are given below to create a Power App based on On-Premises data.
- Login to Office 365 SharePoint site and click the list, where you want to add PowerApps.
- Click PowerApps link in the list ribbon given below.
- Enter the PowerApps name and it will redirect to the PowerApps Studio.
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Click blank App.
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Create a Canvas APP
A Gallery control can show multiple records from a data source, and each record can contain multiple types of data. Galleries can be used to display multiple types of data using multiple types of controls to build up a feature-rich display within your app.
Add Gallery Control,
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Right now, I am going to use Vertical gallery control to display the data from Dataverse,
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Add the Datasource to your Gallery,
Now Going to change Items property of gallery to sort the items based on Name field,
Code
Sort(DemoChoices,Name,Ascending)
OutPut
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The same you can use Descending,
Code
Sort(DemoChoices,Name,Descending)
OutPut
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Conclusion
PowerApps gives you the ability to connect with all kinds of data, which is not only available with your Tenant but connected to it via the Data Management Gateways.
PowerApps is truly the future of building custom forms and then making them available on mobile devices for your organization.
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