Time Entry – A simple solution

Introduction

I was recently brought into a project that was primarily a CE implementation. I love such projects because there are numerous opportunities that arise in such implementations where Power Apps come in and fix gaps. One such use case was to provide users with the ability to add create time entries while they work on certain tasks.

Time entry requirement

The core requirement was super simple - provide users with the ability to start and stop a time entry and link it to the contact that they were working on. There was one other requirement that was interesting - to allow users to navigate to different tabs within the contact form with the time entry running in the background. And then finally, the last requirement was to navigate the users to the newly created time entry record for them to make any adjustments as needed.

Solution - time entry embedded app

Because of the 2nd requirement, I ruled out custom pages. So the next option was to use an embedded canvas app. Ever since the launch of custom pages, I always pick them over embedded canvas apps. But this was a unique use case that required me to go back to embedded canvas apps. To learn how to embed a canvas app, click here.

Here is a quick demo of the app I built:

As with all projects though, this wasn't the end of it all! Stay tuned for the next set of requirements!

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