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I used PowerApps. It is so so so close to being a silver bullet tool for quick front end crud that can use your AD to authenticate. Instead though, it’s got t

I used PowerApps. It is so so so close to being a silver bullet tool for quick front end crud that can use your AD to authenticate. Instead though, it’s got the most absurd pricing model that even their own reps don’t understand and is missing critical or basic features, requiring strange workarounds (fucking UTC dates vs what’s actually in the DB). They USED to have no way to reuse code as well but they fixed that. I feel like the issue is they’re still too married to basically low/no code environments. Having a “I’m going to need to do a custom script in whatever” option would smooth out the edges so much

beckingz 3y ago
And PowerApps is slow as balls. Power Automate is great, but PowerApps is just a mess where every click in the dev interface takes like 5 seconds. On paper it looks so good, but in practice it is so painful to get that on paper performance and functionality.
- Eji1700 3y ago
  Hooooooooly shit you weren't kidding. For unrelated reasons i've had to hop back in to tweak an app we made a few years ago that's been buzzing along in production ever since. Last time I touched it was more than a year ago. The actual editor interface is horribly unresponsive, but it seems to fix itself if i close and reopen the browser (firefox). Still it gets worse with time and it used to be no where near this bad. As bonus points, functionality that is working in production no longer works in the editor! I found that I had to add yet another clause to all my functions because for some reason it no longer pulls all data from a sql table unless you use show columns to specify you do in fact want all of them.
fulafel 3y ago
Using AD to authenticate is not much of a barrier since it got OpenID support some years back.
YurgenJurgensen 3y ago
You'd think that a tool intended for automating business processes would have a builtin for counting business days, but apparently not.
syndicatedjelly 3y ago
I tried to use PowerApps 3-4 years ago and it was a hot pile of garbage. Slow, impossible to use, underwhelming configuration options, no version control...a developer's nightmare

beckingz 3y ago

And PowerApps is slow as balls. Power Automate is great, but PowerApps is just a mess where every click in the dev interface takes like 5 seconds. On paper it looks so good, but in practice it is so painful to get that on paper performance and functionality.

Eji1700 3y ago
Hooooooooly shit you weren't kidding. For unrelated reasons i've had to hop back in to tweak an app we made a few years ago that's been buzzing along in production ever since. Last time I touched it was more than a year ago. The actual editor interface is horribly unresponsive, but it seems to fix itself if i close and reopen the browser (firefox). Still it gets worse with time and it used to be no where near this bad. As bonus points, functionality that is working in production no longer works in the editor! I found that I had to add yet another clause to all my functions because for some reason it no longer pulls all data from a sql table unless you use show columns to specify you do in fact want all of them.

fulafel 3y ago

Using AD to authenticate is not much of a barrier since it got OpenID support some years back.

YurgenJurgensen 3y ago

You'd think that a tool intended for automating business processes would have a builtin for counting business days, but apparently not.

syndicatedjelly 3y ago

I tried to use PowerApps 3-4 years ago and it was a hot pile of garbage. Slow, impossible to use, underwhelming configuration options, no version control...a developer's nightmare