Power Apps and Forms: How To Easily Format your Form Control

Formatting the Form Control in Power Apps is incredibly frustrating until you learn the proper way to do it. This video covers how to move Data Cards around the form, and resize the cards properly so that your Forms are perfectly laid out, and inviting to Users to fill out. Without any of the typical hassle, or the need to create your own make shift forms with Patch Functions
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[@florianboissiere6211]

3 years later and still saving us heaps of time. thanks for this video! I've wasted hours on this.

[@fenderberg]

that form position trick blew my mind. thanks man!

[@timothyspencer7217]

Thank you for this. Really saved me some headaches.

[@georgeboydratcliff1036]

Great tips, thank you! You may have saved my sanity with this! PowerApps take me back to the “bad old days” when Microsoft refused to accept the web standards and kept trying to re-invent html and css!

[@andrewn2011]

thanks for this video. Just beginning to learn Power Apps and got to this stage. Love the tips and the comments. Going to try these out! Keep em coming!

[@adunbar22]

This video was amazing! I was going crazy prior to this video trying to figure out how to customize a simple form. Great and simple instructions and thank you for putting this together.

[@akashkaushik3267]

Thank you, so much for posting this video. It has proven immensely helpful for me in positioning the various field controls on the New, Edit, and View forms. Honestly, you should submit this guidance to Microsoft and have them officially publish it on their web site. 👍👋

[@kurosawa098]

Thanks for the excellent video. After watching the first 20seconds, I knew it was going to be useful and well explained.

[@tomk3732]

As a C# developer, hats off to anyone not killing themselves working with PowerApps - development of forms is sooo much easier and predictable with c#. Things don't move around you can design the form much, much, much quicker.

[@isabelsanchez3073]

thank you! The positioning info & tips were crucial.

[@alancrawford3563]

If you go to the advanced Tab on the right pane the X and Y fields display the positioning in Row and Column numbers. I use this to check and adjust my row /column positions.

[@powertothepeople4525]

Since you commented this tip, I've used it like 7 times.... love it! I swear, I feel like I've learned as much from comments on my channel as I have from anything else recently. Appreciate the help!

[@soulsinger1969]

I know this is 3 years old, but this saved me from pulling out what little hair i have left !! :D,... big thanks

[@HT_LBC]

Thanks for the video! The more I use Powerapps, the more it feels like half-baked product.

[@oricchannel2811]

Cool tips. Thanks for sharing. Won my LIKE !!!

[@powertothepeople4525]

Awesome, thank you!

[@erikamayumi5515]

Nice, thank you.

[@tedmoy]

I'm not sure if I'm subscribing for the content or the hotness of Nate. Both? 😁

[@enquiryplay]

It feels like I'm looking through a window into an alternative universe, in which Jesse from Breaking Bad made very different life choices.

[@powertothepeople4525]

Hahah I've never heard that one before but I'll take it! Cheers

[@hd4453]

Very Helpful tips Mate 👌

[@powertothepeople4525]

Thanks! Glad they helped!

[@Kimmy-xz3is]

Good stuff!

[@GoWstingray]

Hi mate, if you have want to select all of a forms data keys and card values to change the font size etc, click the form and change the layout from vertical to horizontal or vice versa then click the undo button once, it may look like only the first card is selected but all of them are. Cheers

[@powertothepeople4525]

No way! Gonna be testing this today... and I'm embarrassed about how excited I am about it lol. Many thanks, lain!

[@GoWstingray]

@@powertothepeople4525 No worries, pity you can't just select all the keys separately but at least its its something.

[@mrtanner87]

Mate, thanks for this great tip. Looked everywhere and everyone said it can't be done!!!! Appreciated

[@mastalayne]

AWESOME Thanks man!

[@powertothepeople4525]

Glad it was helpful!!!

[@nathanielmasih2285]

Hi Thanks for this, What if you have a form that is separated into pages or tabs i.e. a form that is 40 fields split across 4 tabs

[@niiikhiiil]

Thank you!

[@powertothepeople4525]

You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@johnhay3402]

Any idea how to change a date format from mmddyy to ddmmyy in a power app? I'm using the annual leave app but can't figure it out?

[@Bo7bbsie]

You saved my life and allowed me to not slave at my app for an entire night! Thank you for this!!!

[@powertothepeople4525]

Aww that's awesome! So glad this video was able to help. I've been suuuuuper busy lately, hence the lack of recent uploads, but I hope to have some more content coming out soon. Stay tuned!

[@Bo7bbsie]

@@powertothepeople4525 awesome looking forward to it #Subscribed 💪🏾

[@mohammedsuheb4793]

Good Video.. Best suggestion for beginners.. You need to used good mic..

[@powertothepeople4525]

Thanks for the feedback! I use a pretty decent audio technica mic but maybe I need to position it better!

[@maxrex22]

When I tried the global label text field tip it disabled the color option in my properties pallet. Now I can't change the color of my labels. Any idea what I may have done wrong?

[@Rani_7698]

Thanks for the tips, they are very helpful. Could you please advise how do i change the data entry fields, its showing as text field and i dont know how to change it

[@powertothepeople4525]

Thanks for the feedback! As far as changing the data entry fields, just insert whatever type of control you want into that Datacard, but make sure that you change the form to send that value to SharePoint instead of sending the text field back to SharePoint. It's hard to type out what I'm saying, I'm sorry if that didn't make sense lol

[@Rani_7698]

Thanks alot for responding so quickly, i was able to understand half the part - change the control type- deleting the existing text firld and adding the new control type from the input menu, but what do you mean by the remaining - how do i make the form send the value back to sharepoint.

[@powertothepeople4525]

So if you select the entire data card, you'll see a property called "update" in the advanced properties pane... make sure it is set to your new control's selected value.

[@RichardJones73]

I understand the concept but struggle to get a field to size a column over multiple rows without moving the rows fields underneath the large column field?

[@lohitdevgan6799]

Can we change the style of multiple data cards single time? or we have to format one by one?

[@powertothepeople4525]

hi! great question.... there is a comment below from user Lain Ray...… if you select the entire form, then change the layout from vertical to horizontal or vice versa then click the undo button once, it will select all Data Cards and you'll be able to format everything at once. I've tried this trick a couple times, and it works great if you want to change everything in each data card to be formatted the same way. Unfortunately, if you want to make all Title values, and all data card values formatted differently but consistently, i have not found a way to do that easily outside of dynamic formatting as explained in the video

[@Test-oc1fr]

Amazing

[@jasonralston6610]

First of all thank you. The datacards were driving me nuts. So you know. If you what the controls to stay the same size on Form Size Change. Turn Off Snap To Columns

[@smith9808]

Wish they had the format painter option or just highlight all the fields to change the colour size etc. All of this is so long winded compared to other Microsoft programs