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Enabling InfoPath for SharePoint Online
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I am more of a PowerApps develloper than infoPath developer. I have to say I am helping a company move from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 365 cloud. I opted to modify their forms using PowerApps and was very disappointed to see PowerApps does not support some basic SharePoint controls such as radio buttons, checkboxes and even large text areas. The radio and checkbox controls were forced into drop-down menues. The multiline boxes were collapsed into one line. With these limitations in PowerApps, I can see what SharePoint users want to continue with InfoPath as sad as that is. Microsoft needs to fix these PowerApps limitations ASAP. In fact, I would say PowerApps is not ready to replace InfoPath at this point. I wish it was...
So one other big problem with PowerApps vs InfoPath. How do you save a great powerapp form as part of a site or list template? You could do this with InfoPath and a form Library... but PowerApps are still weak in support of building real enterprise type apps.
...and external users cannot view/use powerapps forms. Not a big deal for some, but we work on major projects with multiple partners and organizations. Until MS figures this out powerapps is dead to us. If/when they permanently retire InfoPath we would have to jump to Nintex or other.
Chad WoodwardMicrosoft Forms can be used with anyone and could be a good replacement for some InfoPath forms.
Deleted Multiline text fields do exist in PowerApps and can be used with Multiline (plain text) text fields in SharePoint, and show as a multi-line control in the form. As for the radio buttons/checkboxes, yes the default is a drop down for those SharePoint choice fields... but this doesn't mean you can't use Radio Buttons and Checkboxes in your form, that get data or update data from a SharePoint choice field. You can update the default and update property on the controls to map to the SP Choice FIeld Dropdown Card values.
This is great news. Why when users click on "Open with PowerApps" does it wipe out the existing radio controls? It also shrunk the multi line fields to a single line...
