Create code less reusable components in PowerApps

You might have come across a situation where you feel that you are investing so much time in PowerApps to recreate same UI controls across apps or across different screen. E.g. Header section, Navigation menu, Approve reject buttons, Dialog box etc.

Yes, we can put together many controls and build one component and reuse it across mutliple screens in same app. In next article we will see how can we make use of components library so that we can reuse these components aross apps.

Components – what is it?

Its set of controls put together – building blocks
Component can have input and output properties to communicate with hosting app
If any changes are made then the changes will be reflected to all instances of component automatically
Easy to maintain, reduce duplication efforts
It can be app scoped, used in multiple screens in same app
It can be published to component library and used across multiple apps
You can't access controls in the component from outside of the component. And you can't refer to anything outside of the component from inside the component

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Sarvesh Shinde

Sarvesh is a Microsoft 365 consultant. Working on Power Platform extensively, having 12 years of experience in software development. Working on Office 365 suite products like PowerApps, PowerBI, FLOW, SharePoint Online, Teams, Yammer etc. Reach out to me if you have any question in this area.