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Matthew Weston
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Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
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Using forms

Searching form in the Insert menu offers the option to Edit form and Display form. This provides us with a native way to quickly create, view, and edit forms so that we can modify data from our data source. The setup of a form is very similar to that of a gallery or a data table, whereby we put the control on the page and select the data source.

When a form is placed on the canvas and connected to a data source that has an understanding of a user interface, for example, SharePoint, the form will automatically render the key fields, displaying both a label as well as a control, which will allow the user to change the data. These groupings of controls within the form are called data cards.

If we are connecting our form to a collection, then we need to build the form manually using custom data cards. This is a useful example to understand as you can add custom data cards to your forms even if you’ve connected them to an external data source, which you may want to use to...

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Matthew Weston

Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
Read more about Elisa Bárcena Martín