What’s new: Power Apps April 2023 Feature Update

Clay Wesener, Partner GPM, Power Apps Studio, Dienstag, 2. Mai 2023

Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share a summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. A variety of new and highly anticipated features are now available which we are very excited to share including Managed Environment Updates, new Variable and Collections experience, and improvements to offline on mobile!

Recent improvements to the Modern App Designer

Jessica Lo, Program Manager II, Mittwoch, 26. April 2023

The Modern App Designer has been generally available since May 2022, and since then we’ve have been closely monitoring feedback from makers. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the release of a series of significant improvements to improve maker productivity when building in the Modern App Designer.   In summary, the app navigation is now…

Update forms and views more conveniently with table designer

Travis Shu, Senior Product Manager, Dienstag, 25. April 2023

We are pleased to announce the public preview of Update forms and views feature in table designer. With this new experience, makers can now add columns to their forms and views on the fly, instead of navigating away from their table to update their forms and views manually. This also means when working with table…

Streamline collaboration with the General Availability of comments in Power Apps and Power Automate

Sam Perlmutter, Montag, 24. April 2023

If you are a Power Platform user, you know how important collaboration is when it comes to building custom solutions with your fusion team. We continue to hear from our customers about the need for additional capabilities that improve maker collaboration, and we are dedicated to meeting this need. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce…

Improved variables and collections experience in Canvas Designer

Jessica Lo, Program Manager II, Montag, 24. April 2023

Creating variables and collections is an essential part of the app building process. Therefore, we are excited to announce the general availability of an improved, seamless experience that enables makers to see variables and collections directly in-line with the canvas designer! Gone are the days of switching between the app designer and backstage to set…

High five Matthew Devaney—Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2022 demo contest winner

Bryony Wolf, Donnerstag, 20. April 2023

It’s National High Five Day, and we’re excited to give a virtual high five to Matthew Devaney, one of our Microsoft Power Platform MVPs, for being one of the demo contest winners at the Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2022 (and for having an awesome career switching story too)!

Updates to simplify using JSON

Joris de Gruyter, Senior Program Manager, Donnerstag, 13. April 2023

We’re pleased to announce some exciting updates to how makers can use untyped objects. ParseJSON() and untyped objects are very flexible, but we’ve heard your feedback that improvements are needed to require less code and make untyped objects easier to use. So today’s announcement is all about implicit type conversion, or coercion. For untyped objects…

Create a Custom Connector for your Web API from within Visual Studio

Marcel Ferreira, Mittwoch, 12. April 2023

I’m excited to announce that Power Platform is now a connected service in Visual Studio 2022 Preview! Code-first developers will now be able to create both APIs and connectors from within Microsoft Visual Studio, thereby minimizing context switching when developing custom connectors for Microsoft Power Platform. Let’s explore how to create a simple Power apps…

Power Apps on Windows updates

Tristan Dehove, Principal Program Manager, Mittwoch, 5. April 2023

We built Power Apps on Windows (General Available since June 2022) so that your apps can take advantage of advanced device capabilities and offline support from your PC or tablet. We’ve added some great new features that we’d like to share with you. What’s new? Recent and pinned apps. Find recent apps and pin favorite…

PG&E saves over 38 million dollars from Power Platform solutions and a Center of Excellence

Taiki Yoshida, Principal Program Manager, Dienstag, 4. April 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) adopted Microsoft Power Platform saving them over 38.5 million US Dollars in two years and enabling over 1,300 digital creators.