I like that the rectangle to show the current selected item is there by default. I always wondered why you had to setup a colour change yourself to keep track of what was selected.🤓
I am not sure. 😳 I think it is the same spinner but it is just choosing to show up more now? I don't know. The old one I could literally never get to work and this one just jumped out into my face 5 minutes into using it. So not sure if they changed the logic or I just got lucky?
I often find myself getting impsoter syndrome when building Power Apps... then I added one of these new galleries a couple of days ago, and saw the If statement on the side rectangle and the hard-coded Y property on the seperator and breathed a sigh of relief. If MS are making these simple mistakes, then I can't be that bad!!
Shane, Please do a video on a approval app from a blank vertical gallery. I would like to see how to assign ownership based on condition like email address and data validation in the drop down column to not allow blank entries. The drop down column will be the column to indicate if approved or not. The data will be comimg from excel.
I am having similar issues from the update that took place with the gallery. Except mine seems to be with the scalling of the app when used on a phone. The text becomes way too small to read.
Thanks for the video warning....I would suspect that almost no one uses one of the default layouts except to get started. So from that perspective, if they choose a different one it has always blown away their previous work. I am not clear what is new here that we can see. I get some defaults are different but were there improvements in fetching or performance. I also find it silly that Microsoft keeps making these changes yet never publishes any information about them. BTW, there are tons of bugs I'd like to see fixed yet silly stuff like this seems to be their focus.
It's great that the platform is improving, but I do think it's pretty darn awful that we don't get any fore-warning of changes! I think the worst recent change has been to the Split function - all of a sudden it returns a table of "Values" instead of "Results". Lost quite a few hours changing a LOT of formulas thanks to that unannounced chestnut! We'd never get away with doing this to our clients with the Apps we make for them - they'd go mental, and rightly so, as it could literally cost them loads of money! All delivery frameworks (including Microsofts) advocate robust change and version control, including good Release Notes. Have you ever read their release notes? They are terrible - always incomplete, and usually just flat out wrong, if they bother to tell you anything at all... I guess it's a case of "Do what we say, not what we do"...
I had a gallery with text and dropdown controls displaying default values referenced from a collection. After the latest changes, my text boxes stopped displaying the values!!! Dropdowns are still fine though.
Thanks Shane for this. I run in a issue yesterday and wondering if that has something to do with the new galleries too. I use galleries in a form (yes sorry i use forms) to display multi select choice fields from a sharepoint list as checkboxes. If a checkbox is ticked/unticket (oncheck/onuncheck) it updates a collection and this collection is used to update the field. Worked line a charm but now suddenly it does not updates the collections anymore. Odd is that the same gallery outside of the form works. Support is looking into it. 🤯
Markus, I too have experienced something similar to you. It was working two days ago, then all of a sudden, stops. I have tried all sort of solutions until I discovered your comment on Shane's post. Would be interested if you find a solution. I can confirm you exact observation, works outside a form, but not inside. UPDATE: I have found that if you replace the checkbox with the 'Modern Control Checkbox', and use the following on the OnChange Property, you can resolve the issue. If( CheckboxCanvas1, Collect( colCheckboxDigitalObjectivesValues, ThisItem ), Remove( colCheckboxDigitalObjectivesValues, ThisItem ) )
New collection did not help it was a bug. I got the confirmation from support yesterday evening that is now solved in the versions 3.2305518+, 3.23061.18+ and 3.23062.8+. I can confirm that is working for me again too.
Do you have a video where you filter a combo box on active and inactive status on a dataverse table? maybe sharepoint has active and inactive but i dont know...
Hi Shane , I discovered today when I want to modify my power apps, my old gallery's started misbehaving, I am unable to use the remove function in my collections but I can add😢.
Hi Shane, i have query with regard to PowerApps with Azure SQL as data source, I'm not able to save my PowerApps - it says it's not complaint with your organisation DLP policy - not sure how to handle this, any help will be appreciated. Looking forward your your insights on this matter
It is possible your admins set a DLP policy that doesn't let the SQL connector do writes. So many things they could have configured I am not sure I am much help.
As a matter of fact, I've verified with Microsoft support that multiple reports are saying that galleries are not even loading or being hidden on some screens. We are forced to use an earlier Power Apps release 3.23053.41
Can you pls help me. I’m writing the code in OnSelect property of a Save Button. Trying to patch the info. It’s a display gallery and the data type for the text fields is a mix of alphabets and numbers. Patch(‘Equipment Not Functional’, Defaults(‘Equipment Not Functional’), {Title: txtTitle.Text, ‘Department/Location’: txtdept.Text, Area: txtlocation.Text, Reason: txtreason.text, ‘Action Plan till it is Functional’: txttargetdate.text}); I have been getting errors, “The function patch has some invalid arguments” “the type of argument does not match the expected type ‘text’”, although some fields are just alphabetical even then the error is same…
Remove one field at a time until you figure out which one is causign the problem. you typed. Reason: txtreason.text, ‘Action Plan till it is Functional’: txttargetdate.text are those text or Text. Capital T would matter
I had galleries inside a form leveraging a collection. The on select of the form stopped working after a publish with no changes. I had to demo to a client and the gallery just stopped working a hour before. Previous version restores did not do the trick. Rebuilding now and I'm going to walk away from forms now
Not surprising. They make changes all the time but are not equipped to thoroughly test. There are long standing issues with nesting things. It has to do with the selected item and the nested control not firing because the parent control is not properly selected. Simply, you cannot select an item in a gallery. Microsoft has many development languages and selecting specific rows in a table or other constructs is standard functionality yet in a PowerApp..... I means seriously, If I want to cause the gallery to select say row 22...I should be able to do that (even when the control is not visible).
It is so odd. I played with the template settings and I just couldn't get it to do the same thing. New app, touching nothing else I get white, existing App I get blue. Weird.
@@ShanesCowsstrange, I haven't got it to go white yet but that could be because I'm not editing an existing gallery, either way nice update, keep up the great work!
Have they added some sort of TemplateHoverFill or something to make it more visually obvious when you're hovering over a specific gallery item? I hate the push and pop effects; they aren't elegant or helpful for most people
That is just special, you go to show people how to do things and wait this isn't what I wanted to talk about.
Thanks for the heads-up
Literally what happened to me. 🤣
Wow, Microsoft really knows how to keep my love / hate relationship with PowerApps strong.🙄. Thanks for sharing Shane!
Thanks Shane. I would have lost my mind if I discovered this myself.
Glad to help. It freaked me out fur sure!
Same!!!
Thank you Shane. This look is better for me
Glad you like it.
I like that the rectangle to show the current selected item is there by default. I always wondered why you had to setup a colour change yourself to keep track of what was selected.🤓
It is a nice touch.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As someone who runs workshops on about a dozen M365 Apps, I know that "oh, this is new..." experience all too well.
Glad I am not the only one Chad. 😎
@@ShanesCows I try to make it a teachable moment...live proof that Microsoft 365 is continuously evolving (and usually for the better).
Thanks Shane !
Happy to help!
That separator bar was killing me!
Still confuses me to be honest when it goes all white on white. 😎 Hopefully they fix it.
@@ShanesCows I hope it’s fixed. I just got back into building apps and this threw me for a loop. Thanks for the fix!
Thanks for this video Shane! I will be on a lookout for it so I don't get tons of emails from my users :D
Glad to help 😎
I love how they just spring this stuff on us. They also allowed us to revert to the old toolbar a while ago and BAM, it's gone.
This one was a surprise even for me. I literally was teaching and clicked on Gallery and BOOM it was in my face.
To be fair, I do the same thing to my end users 😅
Many thanks - I wasn't aware of this!
Glad to help!
Can you please explain the new loading spinners a little bit more? What makes them different from the old gallery?
I am not sure. 😳 I think it is the same spinner but it is just choosing to show up more now? I don't know. The old one I could literally never get to work and this one just jumped out into my face 5 minutes into using it. So not sure if they changed the logic or I just got lucky?
I often find myself getting impsoter syndrome when building Power Apps... then I added one of these new galleries a couple of days ago, and saw the If statement on the side rectangle and the hard-coded Y property on the seperator and breathed a sigh of relief. If MS are making these simple mistakes, then I can't be that bad!!
David working is always better than not working. Don't be hard on yourself. 😎😎
Thank you for the heads up
You bet, have a great day.
Hi Shane, i just discovered a new control called "Host" below the App starter. I used it in a label & gave me my OS , my navigator & my session ID.
Nice one, yeah I need to mention that one in a video. Thanks for the reminder.
Shane,
Please do a video on a approval app from a blank vertical gallery. I would like to see how to assign ownership based on condition like email address and data validation in the drop down column to not allow blank entries. The drop down column will be the column to indicate if approved or not. The data will be comimg from excel.
I am having similar issues from the update that took place with the gallery. Except mine seems to be with the scalling of the app when used on a phone. The text becomes way too small to read.
The default text is smaller, maybe try increasing the size a bit?
Thanks for the video warning....I would suspect that almost no one uses one of the default layouts except to get started. So from that perspective, if they choose a different one it has always blown away their previous work. I am not clear what is new here that we can see. I get some defaults are different but were there improvements in fetching or performance. I also find it silly that Microsoft keeps making these changes yet never publishes any information about them. BTW, there are tons of bugs I'd like to see fixed yet silly stuff like this seems to be their focus.
It's great that the platform is improving, but I do think it's pretty darn awful that we don't get any fore-warning of changes!
I think the worst recent change has been to the Split function - all of a sudden it returns a table of "Values" instead of "Results".
Lost quite a few hours changing a LOT of formulas thanks to that unannounced chestnut!
We'd never get away with doing this to our clients with the Apps we make for them - they'd go mental, and rightly so, as it could literally cost them loads of money!
All delivery frameworks (including Microsofts) advocate robust change and version control, including good Release Notes.
Have you ever read their release notes? They are terrible - always incomplete, and usually just flat out wrong, if they bother to tell you anything at all...
I guess it's a case of "Do what we say, not what we do"...
Sorry James. These little changes sometimes have the biggest impacts.
How do I enable the Image upload optimization for Desktop usage of the app? (Referencing the "Optimize images for upload" option in PowerApps mobile)
Not possible. SOrry
@@ShanesCows Love that answer, thanks
Do I understand correctly that the loading spinner is a new property of the gallery? Interested in what we can do with that.
It has been there for a while but seems to be showing itself now.
I had a gallery with text and dropdown controls displaying default values referenced from a collection.
After the latest changes, my text boxes stopped displaying the values!!! Dropdowns are still fine though.
Thanks Shane for this. I run in a issue yesterday and wondering if that has something to do with the new galleries too. I use galleries in a form (yes sorry i use forms) to display multi select choice fields from a sharepoint list as checkboxes. If a checkbox is ticked/unticket (oncheck/onuncheck) it updates a collection and this collection is used to update the field. Worked line a charm but now suddenly it does not updates the collections anymore. Odd is that the same gallery outside of the form works. Support is looking into it. 🤯
I feel like I saw someone else complain about Check/UnCheck not doing their thing this week. Hmmm. Shoot me a note if you get it solved.
Markus, I too have experienced something similar to you. It was working two days ago, then all of a sudden, stops. I have tried all sort of solutions until I discovered your comment on Shane's post. Would be interested if you find a solution. I can confirm you exact observation, works outside a form, but not inside.
UPDATE:
I have found that if you replace the checkbox with the 'Modern Control Checkbox', and use the following on the OnChange Property, you can resolve the issue.
If(
CheckboxCanvas1,
Collect(
colCheckboxDigitalObjectivesValues,
ThisItem
),
Remove(
colCheckboxDigitalObjectivesValues,
ThisItem
)
)
Use a new collection and it might be solved!
New collection did not help it was a bug. I got the confirmation from support yesterday evening that is now solved in the versions 3.2305518+, 3.23061.18+ and 3.23062.8+. I can confirm that is working for me again too.
@@markusgutmann8031 Ah yes, I learnt it the hard way!
Do you have a video where you filter a combo box on active and inactive status on a dataverse table? maybe sharepoint has active and inactive but i dont know...
Its a great review for a great progress. I love the Gallery.AllItemsCount function without asking the database. Thx u Shane one more time !
You are welcome!
Hi Shane , I discovered today when I want to modify my power apps, my old gallery's started misbehaving, I am unable to use the remove function in my collections but I can add😢.
Hi Shane, i have query with regard to PowerApps with Azure SQL as data source, I'm not able to save my PowerApps - it says it's not complaint with your organisation DLP policy - not sure how to handle this, any help will be appreciated. Looking forward your your insights on this matter
It is possible your admins set a DLP policy that doesn't let the SQL connector do writes. So many things they could have configured I am not sure I am much help.
@@ShanesCows thanks for your response
Thanks. Microsoft really should not automatically change this for apps already in productive use. Manual update yes.
It will not change your app unless you click Layouts then it will. Remember if you accidently apply the change Ctrl+Z 2 times will get rid of it. 😎
Great …..more MS Power platform surprises ….
Keeps you thinking John. At least this one is nice stuff once you get over the shock.
@@ShanesCows and you are the saviour as always letting us all know the ins and outs of it all Cheers
@@ShanesCowsIt’s not nice being blindsided and having to rebuild everything.
As a matter of fact, I've verified with Microsoft support that multiple reports are saying that galleries are not even loading or being hidden on some screens. We are forced to use an earlier Power Apps release 3.23053.41
Can you pls help me. I’m writing the code in OnSelect property of a Save Button. Trying to patch the info. It’s a display gallery and the data type for the text fields is a mix of alphabets and numbers.
Patch(‘Equipment Not Functional’, Defaults(‘Equipment Not Functional’), {Title: txtTitle.Text,
‘Department/Location’: txtdept.Text, Area: txtlocation.Text, Reason: txtreason.text, ‘Action Plan till it is Functional’: txttargetdate.text});
I have been getting errors, “The function patch has some invalid arguments” “the type of argument does not match the expected type ‘text’”, although some fields are just alphabetical even then the error is same…
Remove one field at a time until you figure out which one is causign the problem. you typed. Reason: txtreason.text, ‘Action Plan till it is Functional’: txttargetdate.text are those text or Text. Capital T would matter
I had galleries inside a form leveraging a collection. The on select of the form stopped working after a publish with no changes.
I had to demo to a client and the gallery just stopped working a hour before. Previous version restores did not do the trick.
Rebuilding now and I'm going to walk away from forms now
Not surprising. They make changes all the time but are not equipped to thoroughly test. There are long standing issues with nesting things. It has to do with the selected item and the nested control not firing because the parent control is not properly selected. Simply, you cannot select an item in a gallery. Microsoft has many development languages and selecting specific rows in a table or other constructs is standard functionality yet in a PowerApp..... I means seriously, If I want to cause the gallery to select say row 22...I should be able to do that (even when the control is not visible).
did you have any sort of color theme set?
The one app was brand new so no and the existing app I would have said no also. But who knows.
I wanted to check - looks like this happened in gov too - my first one is white bars, though - had to add background color like you did
The bar at the bottom is blue for me, might be tied to the template
It is so odd. I played with the template settings and I just couldn't get it to do the same thing. New app, touching nothing else I get white, existing App I get blue. Weird.
@@ShanesCowsstrange, I haven't got it to go white yet but that could be because I'm not editing an existing gallery, either way nice update, keep up the great work!
Just want to say that the fact that it is written as IF(blah blah, true, false) shows that powerapps is really built for dummies like me 🤣
🤣
First..again!
Thanks Eric! 🙌
I hope someone gets fired for making this half-assed change to a major component.
Hahaha anothrr change of the UI
They are keeping us on our toes!
Arrgh
Keeping you on your toes!
Have they added some sort of TemplateHoverFill or something to make it more visually obvious when you're hovering over a specific gallery item? I hate the push and pop effects; they aren't elegant or helpful for most people
Not that I have seen but that would be a cool request.