What Is PowerApps Collection And How To Create A Collection In PowerApp

On this blog, here I am going to describe about that the meaning of Power Apps collection and how to create a collection in Power Apps. Here, also I have used four steps to described about create a collection in Power Apps.

In simple words, collection by mean is a group of items. Power Apps provides most useful feature i.e. Power Apps Collection. It is an array that is use to keep data in Power Apps memory.

 

Create a Collection in Power Apps

 

Syntax

 

Collect (Collection Name, record(s))

 

Here,

 

Collect = this is the default function name provided by Power Apps to create the collection.

 

Collection Name = we need to give any name to our collection.

 

Record(s) = we are providing values to our collection, each record stores item values within curly braces.

 

Steps to Create Collection

 

Step 1

 

Open Power Apps window. Select OnStart Property.

 

 

Step 2

 

Let’s take a simple example for Employee details showing employee id and designation. Add the following formula OnStart method.

 

Collect (EmployeeDetails, {EmpID: "11021051", Designation: "Software Developer"}, {EmpID: "11021052", Designation: "Product Manager"}, {EmpID: "11021052", Designation: "HR"})

 

 

Step 3

 

Now save and publish the app. And reopen the app in edit mode. Go to View ->Collections.

 

 

Step 4

 

Clicking on Collection will show you the collection you have made.