From the course: Power Apps: Building Data-Driven Apps with Excel
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Adding field validation
From the course: Power Apps: Building Data-Driven Apps with Excel
Adding field validation
- [Instructor] Another thing you can do with Power Apps is validate input. This is fairly easy to do with Power Apps, especially if you're willing to cheat just a little bit. I'll show you what I mean in a minute. So, here's that employee record form that we were looking at earlier with a phone number field. Now I've fixed the layout so that all the fields fit and I've also renamed the phone field in my tree to make it easier to find. Now, I'm going to stretch the phone card down just a little bit because I want to put a label in, telling people what I'm expecting. It's never a bad idea to clarify your expectations, right? So, with the card selected, I'll click insert, text label. Oh, I have to unlock that. Well, it unlocked it for me. That was good. That was nice. And we'll kind of move that into the position I want it to be in. About there. And I'll tell people what I'm looking for. I'm going to make this font…
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