I have no idea how you dare to suggest that this whole PowerApps / Flows / Sharepoint business is in anyway user friendly enough for any user to use. I am a database developer for a living, and I can't get any of it to work. It's a complete and utter joke!
All I want to do is create a PowerApp page with a button that uploads a local file to OneDrive. There are zero templates offering this very simple concept, and when I try to build it from scratch it asks for completely undefined parameters and there are absolutely no instructions or useful information anywhere to be found. You have developed all these little seperate interconnecting programs, that only serve to make everything that much more inconvenient. Please Help! Please design something I can use!
It takes a little to get warm with it.
I have to agree with all of the criticisms here. It is absolutely shocking to me, as a SQL developer, that so many of these choices were made. Why on earth does a table need a display name, a plural name, a schema name, a logical name, AND an Entity Set Name? Microsoft has SSMS so why on earth does Dynamics/Power Automate work like this?
I am positive any given layman could learn to make a SQL trigger to insert a row into table A based upon x criteria from table B. I have been failing at what should be an insanely simple task for days now. It's horrible for any CRUD operations other than, maybe, read.
I haven't been this frustrated with software or even been this unsuccessful with anything my entire life.
I completely agree. Microsoft have really screwed up. This crap is overcomplicated, clunky and pathetic. I have been a Microsoft developer for over 20 years and I am disgusted at how poor this is
For one, i would stop this citizen developer ideology. Its punishing skilled developers in the hopes that average people are going to have the time, will and technical knowledge to even attempt making their own stuff.
I would also allow programmers to use actual languages like C# and C++ opposed to scripting languages for a start, tying into my plumbing analogy.
indeed power automate is worst tool I have ever work on. I am a RPA architect and have working experience with various other RPA tools such as Blue Prism, UiPath, Automation Anywhere for some extent but I have never been frustrated as I am not using this tool. this is most unreliable tool you can think of and the worst part is the tool selection was from customer so I don;t have choice to change it.
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