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power apps · beginner

The 12 Power Fx expressions you will use in every canvas app

The small set of functions that show up in almost every real app. Learn these well and you can build most things; the rest of Power Fx is for when these are not enough.

PowerStack Editorial · 12 min read
power apps · beginner

ClearCollect, Collect, and Patch — when to use which

Three Power Fx functions that get mixed up constantly. Here is the decision rule you can keep in your head, with the small examples that make it click.

PowerStack Editorial · 9 min read
power bi · advanced

DAX time intelligence without a proper date table

How to fake YTD, MTD, and prior-period comparisons on a model you have inherited and cannot restructure.

PowerStack Editorial · 11 min read
power apps · intermediate

Keyboard shortcuts for canvas apps

Master your workflow with every shortcut Microsoft ships — plus the undocumented Alt-key tricks for overriding snap points, isolating controls, and debugging OnSelect without leaving the editor.

PowerStack Editorial · 15 min read
power apps · intermediate

Patch() failures: the 8 reasons your record will not save

Your Patch runs without an error and your data does not show up. Here are the eight causes — in rough order of how often they bite — and how to spot each one in under a minute.

PowerStack Editorial · 11 min read
power automate · advanced

Power Automate: handling 429 throttling in long-running flows

Your flow ran fine in testing and now fails halfway through with HTTP 429 errors. Here is what is actually happening and the four patterns that keep long-running flows alive at scale.

PowerStack Editorial · 14 min read
power automate · intermediate

Power Automate expression cookbook: dates, strings, arrays

The 18 expressions you actually reach for, with the syntax that trips people up called out honestly.

PowerStack Editorial · 11 min read