{"id":1789,"date":"2018-08-21T15:28:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T19:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T19:28:41","slug":"how-to-add-like-functionality-to-powerapps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/how-to-add-like-functionality-to-powerapps\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO: Add &#8216;Like&#8217; Functionality To PowerApps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One common thing people want to implement in PowerApps is <em>&#8216;Like&#8217;<\/em> functionality, just like you see on Facebook, or LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>This video demonstrates how to add <em>&#8216;Like&#8217;<\/em> functionality to PowerApps.\u00a0 In the video I extend the Shoutouts PowerApps sample template and provide the ability for users to <em>&#8216;Like&#8217;<\/em> Shoutouts in the app. I also demonstrate the following concepts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to display how many likes a Shoutout has.<\/li>\n<li>How to ensure someone can only &#8216;Like&#8217; a Shoutout once.<\/li>\n<li>How to display pictures for the people who liked a Shoutout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Shoutouts PowerApps sample template uses Excel as a data source, but the same approach may be used for any back end data source.<\/p>\n<p>You can get the Shoutouts PowerApp sample template on web.powerapps.com.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qRHpZShASgQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One common thing people want to implement in PowerApps is &#8216;Like&#8217; functionality, just like you see on Facebook, or LinkedIn. This video demonstrates how to add<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,96,104,121],"tags":[42,10,5,122,54,45,112],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-mobile","category-office-365","category-powerapps","tag-cloud","tag-custom-development","tag-helpful-code","tag-how-to-powerapps","tag-mobile","tag-o365","tag-powerapps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}