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Massively Frustrating and Useless!!!!

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Posted on 27 Jul 2017 14:33:33 by

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!  

  • WillPage Profile Picture
    2,107 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 28 Aug 2024 at 02:18:11
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    Wow, this thread has really made me laugh.

    In the entire time this thread has existed I've been introduced to Power Platform, learned how to build useful business apps and automate business processes, and then made it my career. In this time I've built hundreds of apps that are in use among dozens of businesses solving real-world business problems for a fraction of the price, both in development and also ongoing costs, than if they'd hired a full-code dev to do the same thing.

    I can imagine many other active members of this community are in the same boat. Meanwhile the responses from impatient and disgruntled developers who lost the patience to learn the thing that will ultimately replace their roles have been trickling in over the years, indignantly complaining that they couldn't figure it out on day one. How did I never see this before!?? 😆
  • David_MA Profile Picture
    11,841 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 27 Aug 2024 at 20:13:47
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    I will agree with the comments about Power Apps. I have yet to build anything useful with PowerApps and have watched numerous videos on the topic and attended two Microsoft Power Apps in a day workshops. It still hasn't made sense.
     
    But Power Automate, that is a completely different story. While it does take some time to learn, it is a lot easier to learn and understand than Power Apps. I am sure you didn't learn everything about databases in one day.
     
    Now when you say you are creating a Power App page, are you referring to Power Pages? I don't have any practical experience with those either, but from my understanding I don't think that is what you would use to create an automation to upload a file from your local drive to OneDrive.
     
    I don't think you even need automation to do what you want. You can just right-click on the file and choose to upload it to OneDrive:

    How would what you want to automate differ from this?
  • abc 123 Profile Picture
    784 Moderator on 27 Aug 2024 at 14:52:04
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    #halfbakedpie
     
    Your frustrations are 100% warranted. Don't let it get to you.
     
  • BP-27081317-0 Profile Picture
    8 on 27 Aug 2024 at 14:19:32
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    Just awful!
  • BP-27081317-0 Profile Picture
    8 on 27 Aug 2024 at 13:19:26
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    After a year of working with it, I not only HATE it I resent what it has done to me!
  • CD00131 Profile Picture
    42 on 20 Jun 2024 at 07:40:27
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    It takes a little to get warm with it.

  • data_boy Profile Picture
    42 on 05 Jun 2024 at 19:10:23
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    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.

  • murbro9 Profile Picture
    6 on 05 Jun 2024 at 16:02:33
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    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

  • Jamoy1993 Profile Picture
    14 on 17 May 2024 at 09:01:37
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    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.

  • soft888 Profile Picture
    8 on 16 May 2024 at 14:14:07
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    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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