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Easy PowerApps Customizations

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Customizing PowerApps
September 6, 2019 by Philip Treacy

Following on from my Introduction to PowerApps and Excel, this post looks at some customizations we can do to our app.

PowerApp Themes

PowerApps provides some pre-built themes that you can apply by selecting them from the menu whilst editing the app.

PowerApp Themes

Choose the theme you want and the styling is applied, but that is as much as you can do without modifying the individual elements of your app.

Components are currently an experimental feature that allow you to create some reusable elements, like a header.

There's still more work to be done before we have customizable themes like we do in Excel.

Modifying App Elements

I've changed the theme to 'Light' so I now have a gray header.

App With Gray Header

To change this color I select the element called 'RectQuickActionBar1' in BrowseScreen1 in the left side Tree View.

Select QuickActionBar

In the right hand side Properties pane, click on the padlock to unlock the element for editing. By default, elements are locked so you'll need to unlock anything that you haven't already changed.

Locked Advanced Properties

On the Properties tab you can see the Color Chooser.

QuickActionBar fill colours

Click on this to show the Standard palette of colors to choose from.

Choose from standard colours

You can also choose a Custom color, or enter the Hex or RGB values for a color.

Choose custom color

I'm using our company green which has a Hex value of 75AD21.

Enter HEX color

The header is now green. This change will need to be made for every screen in the app.

PowerApp with green header

Changing the Browse Screen

In the last image above you can see that an Issue is displayed with three pieces of summary data.

  • Department
  • Description
  • Issue Type

This video shows the process of changing the Browse Screen Your browser does not support the video tag. Watch the video here https://d13ot9o61jdzpp.cloudfront.net/video/browse-gallery-modifications.mp4

If I want to quickly change this I can select BrowseGallery1

Browse gallery selected

and in the Properties pane, change the Layout which is currently set at 'Title, subtitle and body'

Browse gallery properties

A number of options are available and I'll choose 'Title and subtitle'

Layout options

Which will make the summary display look like this

Title subtitle displayed

Changing the Displayed Fields

You can also change the fields displayed. First I'm going to change the layout back to 'Title, subtitle and body' then in the Properties pane click on Edit Fields

Browse gallery properties edit fields

The displayed Title is the Department. The Subtitle is the Issue Description and the Body is the IssueType.

Browse gallery data fields

I think it would be useful to know when the issue was logged so I'll change the Body to display the Created date/time.

Select created date

Our summary page now looks like this.

Gallery showing date

Changing Icons

On the Details screen the icon to indicate 'Go back' is a left pointing chevron.

back icon

To change this, click on it and in the Properties pane, click on the drop down list for Icon.

icon properties

There's plenty to choose from and I'm going to change it to a small chevron in a circle.

list of icons

changed app icon

Summary

A lot of easy customizations can be made by selecting an element in the Tree view and then looking at what Properties you can change.

Don't go nuts though, best to keep it simple and not make too many modifications.

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