I work for a large organisation and in my department we have many documents which we use over and over again. these are audit documents, or task lists. As an exercise to streamline the processes we have, I have been to try and streamline these tasks, automate them etc.
By using an automated system it will cut down on non value added activities, as well as being able to do these tasks on a mobile electronic device we will reduce paper/ink wastage. I have spent quite a lot of hours creating Power App templates to allow us to easily achieve. However when I come to use the template I run into so many issues.
For example I have just set up a Task List template which uses a datasource of a SharePoint list. There are only a few columns - Title (Text), Status (Choice), Due Date (Date Picker), Task Type (Choice). Priority (Choice) & Task Description (Multiline text).
I have a Gallery Screen and a New Task Screen. Using a SharePoint list template, the app works perfectly well. Tested many times to ensure all the functionality and it works fine. The trouble comes where I want to change the Data Source to an identical (Renamed) SharePoint list. Although changing the gallery is pretty painless and it is fairly straight forward to update to the new data-source, the New Task screen is far from easy. When I look at the New Task form there are so many more error flags and I am having to update numerous controls with the new data source. Even when I repair links to the new data source many of the controls do not work, especially combo boxes.
Is there a more round about way to tackle this type of problem. I am probably doing it all wrong. I would like to be able to delegate these tasks to guys within the team who are not very savvy with things like this.
