Creating Business Applications with Office 365: Techniques in SharePoint, PowerApps, Power BI, and More

© Jeffrey M. Rhodes 2019

J. M. RhodesCreating Business Applications with Office 365https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5331-1_22

22. Creating a Class Sign-Up Solution in SharePoint: PowerApps

Jeffrey M. Rhodes¹ 

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Let’s update the solution from the previous chapter for PowerApps. We reuse our Classes list (Figure 150), but one difference that we find between InfoPath and PowerApps is that a drop-down box in InfoPath doesn’t default to the first item while PowerApps must have a default. The easiest way to deal with this is to create a new class with a dash as the Title.¹ To make sure this default is not filtered out, we make the Class Date a long time in the future like 12/31/2099. Since we don’t want the date included for our default ...