Power Apps Hack To Style All Form Controls In Seconds

This strange hack makes it possible to quickly update the style of all DataCardKeys and DataCardValues in a Power Apps form. Normally its simple to update multiple controls at once. Just select a group of controls then change the desired problem. But a Power Apps form makes it impossible to select multiple controls from different data cards.

Impossible unless you use this Power Apps hack…

1. Select the Power Apps form in the tree view
2. Change the form layout property from vertical to horizontal
3. Click the undo button
4. Now all DataCardKeys and DataCardValues in the form are selected
5. Use the Tree View search to quickly unselect either the keys or values
6. Change any property of the remaining selected controls in one-click.

[michelhegeraat]

Tricks like this are priceless Matthew !!! Who could have thought there actually was a way to do this. Selecting the fields one by one was such a pain. Thanks

[AmyCustomer]

This is most helpful, thank you Matthew. Sadly when you have 62 columns, it's still a lot of work. I wish there was a way to create our own template edit form with the styling the way we always want to start out rather than the styling being nothing you're interested in and have to change every field if you want different colors for hover or pressed events. It's so tiring the impetus to make a copy of your current app for your next one (and use a create from existing for your list - which has problems with at least lookup fields and maybe every complex field) is very high. But then you have all the modifications you have to do to UN DO the parts that aren't needed for the new app. It's exhausting. But this helps certainly to change the font size of everything in one swoop. But the inability to filter for, say, just combo boxes so you can make them all uniform is also a pain having to click off all the fields that aren't comboboxes then make the change, then do the whole vertical to horizontal again, and unchoosing everything that isn't, say, a textInput field, then repeat for Dates... omg it's still a ton of work. If you have any suggestions for making that easier, I'm all eyes 😻

[peterbennett]

WARNING: If you have customized the form controls, this hack will mess them up! I had a bunch of Yes/No switches that I removed the titles from, moved the actual switch control and shrunk the container size. It moved all of the switch controls back to their original locations and when I hit Undo, it did not undo properly. I lost an hour fixing them.

So only do this with uncustomized form fields, for your sanity's sake!

[jrockno]

Great stuff Matt! Just what I needed.

[pixilladesigns]

Mr. Devaney, you magnificent bastard! I can't even imagine the bonkers situation that led to this discovery! Thank you for all your contributions, sir. I enjoyed your Error Handling session at MPPC2023!

[komanglayang]

That is actually a very neat trick. Thanks for the video!

[bexbalmer]

You are today's hero!! A million thank yous!!!

[chairattangthong]

Thank you so much Teacher.. you have helped me a lot

[richardchukwu]

Hi Matthew, do you mind making and sharing a video from your blog with the topic "Power Apps Tabbed Form With An Awesome-Looking Design"? It will really be nice to see the step by step process.

[nazuu]

Great call dude. Keep up the good work.

[danielavasques]

Hi! Thank you for helping out ☺️ I have a question regarding the forms. I have 7 user groups defined in my sharepoint and I already defined their permissions for a certain list in sharepoint. I created a power app where I have an edit form for that list. What I want to do now is make some fields editable by certain user groups and others only readable by other certain user groups. How can I do that?

[yousssefkhatttab]

Thanks a lot, that was very helpful ❤

[napoleonnilo]

wonderful! thank's for sharing Matt!

[mehtabidreesi]

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