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This post shows how you can hide a button inside a PowerApp unless you are a member of a specific O365 Group Why A lot of PowerApps we build these days have two audiences: The person filling out a form The team managing the process The person filling out the form really only needs to do one thing.  Fill out a form, and trust it's been sent to the right people. The team managing the process may have a review & approval process that they don't want regular staff to see.  They may have Power BI reports or other screens that should be kept private. I am going to show you how you can hide these buttons & screens so that they are only accessible if you are a member of an Office 365 Group. How 1. Create Office 365 Group & get ID First we need an Office 365 Group that we are a member of, and we need to retrieve it's ID.  Here's another post on how to get the ID:  How to Quickly find the GUID of a O365 Group 2. We are going to create 2 buttons...

Using DateTime fields from SharePoint can be a royal PITA.  Here's the simplest way I've found to do a quick conversion from UTC time to AUS time. What Using Flow, when you pull dates from a SharePoint list, even if they look right in SharePoint, they come out wrong in Flow. Why SharePoint Lists store DateTime values in UTC format behind the scenes in the database.  This means even if you have Regional Settings set up in SharePoint to show the correct DateTime in the list, when you pull the data out using other applications, it spits out in UTC. We want to fix that. How The expression I use to quickly convert the timezone AND format it to the correct dd/mm/yyyy format is ConvertTimeZone() . This function expects the following information: ConvertTimeZone(DateTimeString, SourceTimeZone, DestinationTimeZone, Format) Here's an example I've used in an Email Action in Flow: convertTimeZone(triggerBody() ?[ 'DateTimeFromSharePoint' ], 'UTC'...

Looking for the GUID for a Office 365 Group and finding it slightly painful with PowerShell? Here's my trick for quickly finding it. I use Microsoft's Graph Explorer:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer Navigate to the Graph Explorer & click the Sign-In button in left-navigation Click the 'Show More Examples' link in the left-navigation Select 'Groups' from the right-hand popout Now you should be able to click ' All Groups in my organization ' on the left hand nav.  (You may need to add the permission ' Directory.Read.All ' to your account. Use Ctrl+F in the response pane to quickly find the group and grab it's ID

This is a nice simple Flow that I love!  If you work with a lot of different software and want to keep up to date on the latest changes without having to save all those pesky favourites to various RSS feeds/blogs, this is for you. The great thing about this is, when you start posting it to Teams, now everyone can see when there is an update!  It's only 3 steps, here's how: Create a Blank Flow Add the Trigger ' RSS - When a feed item is published ' Add the ' Data Operations - Compose ' action to create a nicely formatted message to send to teams Add the ' Teams - Post a Message ' action, select your team & channel, and put the Compose Output into the Message box I use this flow to keep up to date on all the latest Microsoft PowerApps news, see the screenshot below for my flow setup.