During Microsoft Ignite 2017, Microsoft announced PowerApps Forms for
SharePoint Online. Earlier Microsoft announced that there will be no new
release for SharePoint Designer and InfoPath. And Microsoft advised
their users to start using PowerApps instead of InfoPath and Microsoft
Flow for SharePoint Designer.
This blog summarizes about new Custom Forms using PowerApps in
SharePoint Online.
Reasons for using InfoPath
InfoPath – Cons
Advantages of using PowerApps Forms
To make PowerApps Forms as real replacement for InfoPath, PowerApps
Forms is integrated to the SharePoint List Modern UX. Below are the
changes in SharePoint Online List the users can expect in the coming
days.
First, from the SharePoint Online List, whenever the user clicks on the
list item, an embedded form is shown to the right as below with new
option “Customize”.
Once the user clicks on it, the user is taken to the PowerApps studio to
build the form. By default PowerApps generates a form using the fields
in the list. The generated form is automatically tied with the list and
there will be a new option “Back to SharePoint” to save the app and get
back to SharePoint list where we started.
In the SharePoint List Settings -> Form Settings, users will see the
new option to select the forms from InfoPath or from PowerApps as below.
Once you have made PowerApps Forms as the default form, your users will
start seeing the new PowerApps Forms embedded in the SharePoint List
Modern UX.
In a nutshell, below describes the new changes related to PowerApps
Forms in SharePoint Online.
