From the Microsoft Power Platform blogs: Fields in custom pages; Automate formula writing; Better flows; Consistent copilots

In this review of the Microsoft Power Platform blogs:

• Make fields required in your custom pages to prevent missing data
• How to automate formula writing in Power Automate using Copilot
• 5 fundamental Power Automate ideas that will make your flows better
• From Teams to Outlook to SharePoint: How to make your Copilot work consistently everywhere

Make fields required in your custom pages to prevent missing data

Writing on her blog, Megan Walker stated that creating a custom page is pretty straightforward. Once you understand the basics, you can build the main structure quickly and even add some functionality, such as using a Patch statement to update your records. 

Walker noted that the harder part is the fine tuning, ensuring that the custom page works correctly every time and doesn’t let users submit the form more than once or click a button without filling in the fields you need. If you work with model-driven apps, it's easy to mark a field as required right on the table, she explained. However, with custom pages, you need to do a bit more. 

Walker then offered a few tips for making fields required in your custom pages or at least making them look required to guide users the right way.

How to automate formula writing in Power Automate using Copilot

Writing on the Inogic blog, Sam Kumar wrote that while Power Automate is used frequently to cut down on manual effort, improve accuracy, and make repeated tasks run smoothly, one common challenge keeps coming up: writing expressions.