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Power apps adding items to left navigation

Im unable to add items to the navigation items in leave request template and also calendar to the leave request template.i need to add calendar and set color codes for some activities on the same template please solve my issue.p

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Consider replacing that chunk of code with the following:

 

 

Concurrent(
//collection used in the left nav menu
ClearCollect(EmployeeNavigation,
{MenuItem: "My Leave Requests"},
{MenuItem: "My Leave Balance"},
{MenuItem: "Company Holidays"},
{MenuItem: "About"},
{MenuItem: "Log out"},
{MenuItem: "MyTimeSheet"}),



//collection used in the left nav menu
ClearCollect(ManagerNavigation,
{MenuItem: "Leave Requests"},
{MenuItem: "Company Holidays"},
{MenuItem: "About"},
{MenuItem: "Log out"},
{MenuItem: "MyTimeSheet"}),

 

One parenthesis in the wrong spot will generate all sorts of errors.

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BCLS776
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Hi @Sohaibmohammad,
The templates provided by Power Apps are examples to demonstrate functionality, and the Leave Request template needs some modification before it will suit particular needs. I had a quick look at it and noticed the navigation bars for managers and employees are populated by collections - as you modify the contents of those collections, the navigation bars will reflect the changes.

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Can you please explain me in detail like steps how to edit

Yes, in the OnStart action for the app, you'll see these ClearCollect functions that establish the left-hand menu items:

    //collection used in the left nav menu
    ClearCollect(EmployeeNavigation,
    {MenuItem: "My Leave Requests"},
    {MenuItem: "My Leave Balance"},
    {MenuItem: "Company Holidays"},
    {MenuItem: "About"},
    {MenuItem: "Log out"}),

    //collection used in the left nav menu
    ClearCollect(ManagerNavigation,
    {MenuItem: "Leave Requests"},
    {MenuItem: "Company Holidays"},
    {MenuItem: "About"},
    {MenuItem: "Log out"}),

You can edit those with additional MenuItem choices, or delete the ones you don't need.

That said, are you new to Power Apps? Consider a learning path to get you familiar with some of the concepts. From there, you will find lots of answers to specific questions in this community.
Cheers,
Bryan

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Thanks for your precious time.

I have one more question regarding adding of calendar to the screen and adding color codes for particular activities as shown in the attachment below. Please can you help me with that?

Your screenshot includes a gallery that is shaped to look like a calendar. Each item in the gallery has a label that contains the date, and to generate different colors the Fill property of the label is modified depending on the kind of leave date. It's a clever way to set up a gallery and you'll learn a lot from playing with the different properties and actions to see how they can change.

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Can you please provides steps for the same so that i can understand in a better way

To make one to play with and learn from, start a new, blank canvas app in Power Apps. Then, select New Screen and choose the Calendar style screen to generate a template like this:

BCLS776_0-1623175497103.png

That template pre-builds a bunch of the functionality that makes the calendar gallery work well, which saves time.

 

The coloring of individual days is handled by modifying the Fill property of the Label that forms the gallery. In the example above, it is called:

BCLS776_1-1623175931023.png

 

The Fill property has some pre-populated code that highlights the selected day and grays out days that don't fall within the month:

/*Fill value changes if the gallery item day = today, or if it lies outside of the current month*/             
If(
    /*Date selected is today*/
    DateAdd(_firstDayInView, ThisItem.Value) = Today() && DateAdd(_firstDayInView, ThisItem.Value) = _dateSelected, RGBA(0,0,0,0),
    /*Today when it is not selected*/
    DateAdd(_firstDayInView, ThisItem.Value) = Today(), ColorFade(Subcircle1.Fill, 0.67), 
    /*The day is outside the range of the currently selected month*/
    Abs(Self.Text - ThisItem.Value) > 10,RGBA(200, 200, 200, 0.3), RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0))

 

Play around with this property to change the colors of specific days, by referring to ThisItem.Value. For example, let's make the 15th day in the series a different color:

/*Fill value changes if the gallery item day = today, or if it lies outside of the current month*/             
If(
    /*Date selected is today*/
    DateAdd(_firstDayInView, ThisItem.Value) = Today() && DateAdd(_firstDayInView, ThisItem.Value) = _dateSelected, RGBA(0,0,0,0),
    /*Today when it is not selected*/
    DateAdd(_firstDayInView, ThisItem.Value) = Today(), ColorFade(Subcircle1.Fill, 0.67), 
    /*The day is outside the range of the currently selected month*/
    Abs(Self.Text - ThisItem.Value) > 10,RGBA(200, 200, 200, 0.3),
    // Make 15th day in series green in color
    ThisItem.Value = 15,Green,
    RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0)) // Default to white for all other days

which results in a calendar that looks like:

BCLS776_3-1623176807916.png

 

This is a pretty trivial example, but the Fill color can be associated with a variable or a collection value, which gives you the ability to control it with some sophisticated logic.

 

Hope that helps your app-building efforts,
Bryan

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Hello i have tried the sameway explained by you but it isnt working im getting all

the errors on the screen when i try to edit it in the collections

Can you share details on the errors and the collection's code you have edited? 

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