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Add dynamic functionality: Validation

Add dynamic functionality: Validation

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Add dynamic functionality: Validation

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- [Instructor] Another thing that you can do with PowerApps is validate input. Now, I'll be honest with you, you can do this directly in share point too, at least to a certain extent. More or less every column you set up in a list has a validation option. Although it's a little less obvious in the modern experience, however setting up pattern validations for things like phone numbers and zip codes and social security numbers, et cetera, well they've always been a little bit difficult because of the formulas involved. I kind of think it's actually a little easier to do this in PowerApps forms, especially if you're willing to cheat just a little bit. I'll show you what I mean in a minute. So here's a simple form with a phone number and an email field. Let's work with the phone first. Now you see I've dragged the email down a little bit so that I can enter some text. A description of what I want people to enter the…

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