Build a CHAT experience in Power Apps using SharePoint Lists

Learn how to build a chat-like interface in Power Apps by leveraging the "Comments" feature from Modern SharePoint Lists! This step-by-step guide shows you how to retrieve and display SharePoint list item comments in Power Apps using a Gallery (Chat Style), post new comments, and more. It is also possible to @mention users for direct feedback and notifications.

Let's get started with building a Chat like experience in Power Apps using SharePoint Lists!

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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Build a Chat system in Power Apps
0:37 - SharePoint List Item COMMENTS feature
3:10 - SharePoint Comments add and reply chat feature in PowerApps?
4:49 - Call flow to get Comments for SharePoint List Item
9:19 - Show chat comments for List Item in Power App
15:25 - POST a chat comment from Power Apps
20:29 - Advanced Scenario: Chat with @mention

[EMiller]

Brilliant! And excellently explained! Thanks so much, Reza!

[ryaniwanowski]

Great video! I follow quite a few Power Platform YouTubers, but Reza is my favorite to learn things that nobody else has even thought of trying yet!

[Bit_surfer]

What would we do in this world without Reza? That man is my god

[dougydoe]

Just catching up on videos after my brief holiday and I surely wasn't disappointed. Great video and great concept. One of the great features about your videos is that, it shows me what's possible even though I may not have a use case for it as yet. It goes into the "Bank" nonetheless. Thanks for sharing and enjoyed it.

[TheKermit]

v useful Reza, love the way you build on prior tutorial solutions, so its easier to digest. Thanks so much

[ericmild]

Thanks raza. I soent the day learning graph api from you. My search is out of control now!
You're the best bro

[sibidi]

I love your excellent R and D. You help us see what is possible.

[JorgeOyanadel]

Awesome!!!, very well explained
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences

[muktirashmi]

Game changer!!! I almost want to cancel my plans tonight and try this out instead! Jk! 🙃 Looking forward to opening the complete solution soon to understand the @mention version.

Thank you Reza for all that you do for this community of Power Platform learners!

[js]

You are the best! How could you be such great?!

[cimarrnargent]

awesome! I keep improving my app full powered by Reza

[javiergamella]

Thanks Reza really good functionallity.

[AntonOraievskyi]

Cool! Great and useful explanation. Reza, do you have any solutions for making chat experience in model-driven app based on dataverse? Thank you!

[gholmes]

Hi Reza, thanks for another fantastic video. I am early into my Power Platforms journey but you have helped immensely this far. Do you know if it would be possible to use the form control which could be used to populate the comments field? I am trying to think of a way to create an app to document audit findings and this could be a great fit if it could be used with a form. Really appreciate any info you can provide.

[ilovejesus-dn]

Thank you so much for the super helpful video Reza. I can't wait to try implementing this. I also wanted to display this chat (following the same format) in an email whenever a user adds a new comment to the ticket. How can I display this field using a power automate flow? Thank you!

[Tasneem-ee]

I have a general question that's not directly related to this video. Whenever I create a new screen, I find myself constantly referring back to previous screens to match colors, sizes, and other control settings. Is there a way to centralize these layout elements so that any new controls I add automatically inherit the width, height, font, and other design properties, saving me from manually adjusting them each time?

[tibobago]

Another great video Reza. The @ mention is great but the email notification redirects people to the list instead of the app which isn’t ideal in our use case. We'll likely end up reproducing a similar experience by using another list to store our comments instead. We might even go nuts and attempt a reply button to keep them in threads 🎉

[EasyProj]

AWESOME! Once I wanted to show Title and Comments columns in Power BI but the @mention is object instead of user name. No sure if anyone can extract Email or User Name from @mention.

[paddysheeran]

Hi Reza, thanks for this. I have built something based on the video but curious on how to filter the chat based on a date range, displaying the date is fine but would like the dynamically control the view of the comments,

[georgeloughery]

Great tutorial. Please post tutorial to make the Issue Tracking Dashboard used for this, thank you.