Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Formatting HTML for PDF Documents Generated in Power Automate

Microsoft has a pre-release out which adds the PDF Print function in PowerApps to allow you to print containers.  It is handy in certain scenarios, but I believe in most situations where you need to generate documents for official policies and procedures, it is worthwhile to print/retain the source documents used to create them using any function that translates what you see into what somebody else sees.

Therefore, I believe in most situations where we are creating documents alongside official processes (HR, Legal, etc.), creating and storing the original HTML is essential instead of relying on a tool we have zero control over to serve as our record of what was created.

So this covers the older method of generating PDF documents from HTML using Power Automate.

Sunday, November 17, 2024

What does one of my own apps look like?

This is more of an sharing of "what goes on under the hood" kind of a configuration of what most of my applications look like by default.  

This is by no means the ONLY WAY to do applications, it is just a jumpstart for anyone who is just really getting into how to deploy applications in 2024/2025 and avoid most of Microsoft's dropped balls and extra licensing costs.

2027 me is going to laugh so hard at this.  Assuming some recently elected moron doesn't blow the world up before then.