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Add support for Office 365 data types

By Adam Cogan in PowerApps May 15, 2018 0 Comments

Eg. multichoice and multilingual data.

Don’t restrict us to only built-in controls 

By Adam Cogan in PowerApps May 15, 2018 0 Comments

Need the ability to implement your own custom controls.

Need Global variables 

By Adam Cogan in PowerApps May 15, 2018 0 Comments

PowerApps lacks global variables. You must resort to using hidden screens (views) with hidden controls to maintain state between views.

Note: A better way is to use an experienced developer and fill gaps by using Azure Functions.

Need a Sweet Responsive design 

By Adam Cogan in PowerApps May 15, 2018 0 Comments

There are issues with responsive design.

Need more Speed 

By Adam Cogan in PowerApps May 15, 2018 0 Comments

The SQL database connector is slow. Retrieving 100 lines + in a resultset takes about a second per row.

Help me create an entity offline

By Adam Cogan in Dynamics App May 15, 2018 0 Comments

Figure: I’d love to see an ‘add entity’ option here

Figure: I often create and use Trello boards offline. It is a nice experience

Note: you can only take your data offline when using Dynamics 365 for Outlook. It is ‘no’ to anything else (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/mobile-app/v8/go-mobile/work-offline)

Help me use my iPad in portrait mode

By Adam Cogan in Dynamics App May 15, 2018 0 Comments

Why is the Dynamics App fixed as landscape? So weird.

Figure: Why do I *have* to turn my iPad on its side?

Help me see the Story Point value with less noise in the Backlog

By Adam Cogan in Azure DevOps May 8, 2018 0 Comments

Less noise – more value :)

+ I’d like a 3rd graph for Business Value – see Do you estimate “Business Value”?

Figure: Can you hide the 4 settings under the Setting Cog… and instead show the “Average Points”

Help me see the product logo

By Adam Cogan in Azure DevOps May 8, 2018 0 Comments

I have 5 tabs open for the projects I am the Scrum Master or Product Owner of…

It would help to visually identify it with the logo or maybe I would put a picture of the Product Owner.

Figure: Allow me to put the product logo here

Allow me to receive Red Pockets without a Chinese ID

By Adam Cogan in WeChat May 7, 2018 0 Comments

Encourage worldwide adoption of WeChat!!! The best way would be to have Chinese send red packets to their western friends.

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