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Power App backups / business continuity
Does anyone else in this forum work as an independent contractor, building app solutions for clients? Question: How do you handle backups? I was contracted to build a Power Apps solution for a client. I develop in my own tenant and then export managed solutions to import into his tenant. The solution I've built has grown over time into something his business uses daily and is becoming quite dependent on. Which has now got him thinking about business continuity, and he's raised a valid concern that if something happens to me then what happens to the business solution he's invested a fair amount of monthly retainer fees in for me to build? He's now pressuring me to hand over the unmanaged solution, which he wants to then pass on to his (third party) IT Support guy to back up. I'm reluctant to do this, as I've firstly put in a ton more hours into building this solution than what my client pays me for, and the solution has plenty of reusable parts and design features that I would use again for other clients. It's also become commercially viable as something I could potentially sell again to other clients.... which has raised a minor debate over who owns the IP... 🙈 but that is a whole 'nother story for another day. Just interested to know from others here, what strategy you have in place for maintaining backups of your unmanaged solutions? Do you: 1. Have a family member or a friend who is instructed (and knows how) to hand all the source code over to clients in the event of your death/disability; 2. Or are you unconcerned about simply handing over the unmanaged solution to your clients, so they can potentially axe you from the project and pass all your hard work on to another developer for free, thereby opening the door to commercialize the app themself etc... 3. Or do you maybe have some kind of business disaster strategy arrangement with another Power Apps developer, who is nominated to step in and take over all your client work should you happen to pop off?
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I feel your pain on the pouring your heart into something. I spent the last year plus getting a Power Apps solution built and into production at work, only to find out two weeks after go-live that they are already talking about the replacement being under development in Mirata forms for the first wave of our rollout of SAP S4/Hana in March. Over a year of work, a lot on my own time, and it might be used for 9 months before they replace it with something that won't have the functionality that I put into my solution. It makes me gun shy about building any other projects out.
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@Wendy Meyer I am employed by a major utility company. Unfortunately, I would have to build it from scratch on my own as anything I build, write, etc. while being paid by them is their intellectual property. Best wishes on the build out and sales of your solution. Go get 'em!
Power Automate Out of Memory Errors
Is anyone else running into these out of memory errors when editing or testing complex workflows in Power Automate? It seems like something changed in the last month or two and now editing and testing are slower and I keep getting the popup with the Wait and Exit Page icons. I try to wait, but at some point, it either pulls its head out of its butt and works, or the whole screen goes black with an OOM error and a pretty blue refresh button. I have at least one other coworker who is seeing similar things but wanted to see if it was happening outside our work tenant.
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@Wendy Meyer I haven't been in/out of most of my apps. The one I am editing along with the flows takes a while to load in the editor, but it seems to be ok on mobile and browser when running in play mode. I spoke to some friends at a company conference the other day. One of them suggested I might not have enough memory in my work laptop. Another said that they pushed one of the monthly updates about two months ago and he started having similar issues. He got a new laptop and they went away. Another suggested using Chrome to edit the flow and see if it had the same issue as Edge.
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@Wendy Meyer they just pushed updates to the work computer yesterday. Here's to hoping it fixes what ever was causing that. I just pushed that app to production today and got to deal with all the subsequent issues. Like I forgot to grant access to the SharePoint site for the M365 group that was set up to access the app and the site. Like the flows not binding to the Production version. Here's to hoping when all the users hit it tomorrow it doesn't poop the bed!
Session 02 of the AI + VS Code Application Development Course
Yes, you are welcome to join tonight! 5pm EST. - https://www.skool.com/learn-power-apps-9036/calendar - https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/235519031250369?p=zHeqlPwS8vGk6GmNPs - Meeting ID: 235 519 031 250 369 - Passcode: bw3dd6r2 Tonight's Topic: Exploring our toolkit!
Session 02 of the AI + VS Code Application Development Course
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Sorry I was knee deep in testing an app this afternoon. Any chance of seeing a recording?
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@Darren Neese any word on the recording?
2026 will be the last year I create Power Platform content
💯 ... at least, those are my plans. Sometime between now and Jan 1st, 2027, I'll be releasing a good deal of Power Platform content, but, for those of you who took the Power Fx Coding course with me, you'll know that: - I'm developing a code generator that will generate all your canvas Power apps for you. So... - Will there be a need to know Power Apps if AI can generate it all for you? 📺 The attached video was made with AI of course. It needs a lot of work, but would your intelligence be insulted if I generated content with AI. It would still be my style of content: conversational tutorials, but it would be more concise and to the point. The first few would be trial & error & responding to your feedback on what you like/didn't like.📈 If you want to see the first draft of this video that was hilarious, look here: - 🤖 https://youtu.be/pcirnx8ac3M The one I have attached is here: - ✅ https://youtu.be/VJcFwtdc090 Super POWER (💪🏋️⚡🧨) Labs has always been about helping you develop your "super powers" as a professional "screen worker". I was going to say "office worker" (spanning all fields), but some of us work at home. 😅 The tech has definitely shifted after the "Chat GPT" moment and everything that's come out since. People are being laid off in droves. If you don't want to be
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It drives me crazy when the person's mouth doesn't match the audio. It's like watching old kung fu movies that were dubbed over in English.
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AI says, "You know that's a deep cut reference". 😅 Movie reference: Finding Forrester. Great film.
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Ask it to open the pod bay doors...
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