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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.
0 likes • Jun 3
@Dustin Rocksvold Good luck! 😅
1 like • 15d
@Dustin Rocksvold I finally uncovered the reason for my Power App performance issues I mentioned in this feed - and maybe it's something you haven't investigated yet with regard to your Power Automate issues you were experiencing. I'm in South Africa, and the 'Data location' for everything in my client's Microsoft 365 environment is set to South Africa - see screenshot below. You can check the Data location settings for your environment here: Microsoft 365 Admin Center → Settings → Org settings → Organization profile, although its only accessible by global admins. (Which is why I didn't even know it was a thing, since I'm not a global admin.) Anyhow, I happened to stumble upon the fact that my Power Platform environment was set to Europe region, whereas it needed to have been set to South Africa in order to pair most efficiently with the geographical location in which my client's SharePoint data is being hosted, and that there is a link between an environment's region setting and the tenant's data location settings. What was happening as a result of this mismatch was that every data request made in my Power App was having to travel across continents to pull it from SharePoint, which was contributing to the latency in app response-time. I'm ecstatic to share that the problem has indeed resolved itself. I created a brand new environment and painstakingly moved everything over. And now my app is FAST! I opened one of my larger Power Automate flows, and that is FAST now as well!🥳 Go figure! 🙈🙈🙈 Maybe you have the same mismatch? Ask a global admin to send you a screenshot of your tenant's Data location settings, so you can check it against your environment location setting.
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?
1 like • 20d
@Dustin Rocksvold Thank you Dustin, your $0.02 is very helpful actually. It gives me peace. So yes, my client has expressed the desire to convert the app I've built to a web-based app, and commercialise it. Which kind of does my head in a bit, as he gave zero input into it. Not the first time this has happened to me though, after I poured heart and soul into a project... it's why I left my last job! Anyhow, I'm going to give in and hand over the unmanaged solution backups to him, but before I do that – apparently there is a way I can restrict the solution to only install on his tenant, so just busy figuring that out at the moment. Thanks for taking the time to write. I appreciate it.
0 likes • 19d
@Dustin Rocksvold Oof that is painful!😭 Maybe you can do what I'm about to do though? I had an epiphany over the weekend that I can take the solution I've built for my client, and adapt it to suit a different industry. In fact, I can build in features to suit several different industries. My client can own his version if he likes, but I'll own the concept and keep reinventing it to market to other organisations. I gather you are in an employed role. But maybe you can take that solution you've built and sell it to other companies that don't have it? Let your colleagues beta test it for you over the next few months, then package it up and market it.
Power Apps outage?
Is power apps down today, or is it just me? (Had to happen when I'm behind with my deadline!😱)
2 likes • Jan 20
@Darren Neese Thanks Darren. Was down for about 3 hours - total panic, and then I was like that cat trying to catch up for lost time 😄
2 likes • Jan 20
@Elvis Eyobor Thanks Elvis. It did come back eventually, and is much faster now - so all is well with the world again 🙂
PowerApps Competitors
Who has tried other lowcode platforms out there.. Share you experience with us.. i wanna hear it😃
2 likes • Aug '25
@Guy Johnsen I was quite interested in learning Airtable, and I researched it quite a bit recently. I may be wrong in my understanding of things, but it seemed that Airtable is simpler to work with but it does have limitations, and that Power Apps is the better tool if developing more complex business apps.
Drag & Drop Tasks
I’ve done a lot of research over the last 9-10 months on solutions to queries I have in Power Apps. Some of which were probably too advanced for my skills at the time. Nevertheless, I followed guidance on YouTube and eventually modified what I saw to work to my needs. I probably didn’t understand why it was working but I made it work. I then came across @Darren Neese and the Learn Power Apps community. There is so much useful information and guidance offered that I recently purchased the PPC course to advance my knowledge. That brings me back to why I’m posting. One thing I would like to see on the channel is a solution to dynamically drag and drop for tasks. i.e. having a list of tasks/jobs that I can drag and assign to a user/time slot just like scheduling our production or maintenance jobs. I found a really good solution by Scott Durow where he provided a component which allowed me do it (link below). https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhgOm-Jpmt82JvLdJFx3Zqo89h_deWJQF&si=Iioh8BXLOVnosTqz It was fairly in depth and took me a lot of time to get up and running, but I did get it working, well sort of. I could drag and drop my tasks but could not figure out how to get the Patch back to my datasource to work as I was trying to adapt his instruction to my app needs. Like I mentioned earlier, I was probably trying to achieve something far too advanced for my understanding at the time. If I looked at it again, I may stand a better chance of achieving the final goal of saving my drag and drop changes. Is it possible to come up with a solution that achieves a similar result without the need for installing the components that Scott provides? It’s a big ask but, if I’ve learned anything, you have to think a bit out of the box and that’s what this community and its contributors do best.
1 like • Nov '24
@Nick McDermott Not at my computer right now, but I'll send you the code tomorrow.
1 like • Aug '25
@Dustin Rocksvold Hi Dustin. Not been on here for a while, so apologies for the delay in seeing your message. I did get Scott Durow's drag & drop component working with SharePoint for a client app I built some time back. It was an Audit Scheduling tool that I built, and everything was working well last time I checked. The drag & drop worked and records were being saved successfully, the visual adjustments on drop were working, and users can edit, etc. Client seemed happy. 😄 I believe that the drag & drop feature is now available out the box for model-driven apps, but I only work with SharePoint so will stick with Scott's component although it can be temperamental. There was one version of my app that crashed, I think due to a mismatch between the Power Apps update and Scott's component, but fortunately I had a previous app version to go back to and it was fine so long as I didn't turn on certain new features. (Sorry for vagueness, but I can't recall now what the exact issue was.) I may use the component again soon for a Kanban style "Requirements Checklist" thingey I'm building at present, although it maybe feels a bit of an overkill putting this into an app since SharePoint does actually have its own Kanban list view already built in... 😉
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Wendy Meyer
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I'm a SharePoint/Power Apps developer and ISO 9001 systems specialist from South Africa – constantly learning and growing with the Power Platform.

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