Introducing improvements to data storage in Common Data Services

Maya Dumesh, Principal Program Manager, CAP platform, Montag, 9. Dezember 2019

File and Image data type to store file data in Common Data Services.

Announcing Power Platform dataflows general availability

Mahesh Prakriya, GPM, Donnerstag, 21. November 2019

A few months ago we announced a Public Preview of Power Platform analytical dataflows. Now, we’re extremely excited to announce that Power Platform analytical dataflows are generally available!

Public Preview: New File Data Type Available Via API

Nathan Helgren, Dienstag, 19. November 2019

An exciting new enhancement is available as a preview for Power Apps, the addition of a File data type. Out of the box, Common Data Service can now naively support: Files can now be added as a data type to any entity Multiple File fields can exist on one entity Use of blob storage for large file types to reduce consumption of relational storage

What’s new in Dataflows in Power Apps this month?

Miguel Llopis, Principal PM Lead - Power Query and Dataflows, Mittwoch, 6. November 2019

Over the past few weeks we have released several new features in Dataflows, allowing users to seamlessly ingest and prepare data that can be widely reused by other users across the Power Platform, including lots of new data connectors, data transformations and other Power Query enhancements.

Environment variables available in preview!

Casey Burke, Program Manager II, Montag, 4. November 2019

Power Platform customizations often require different input parameters and configuration across different environments. Environment variables feature in solutions provides a robust tool set for this automation. They allow you to define different input parameters across environments and manage the values outside of your apps or code.

Exporting CDS data to Azure Data Lake (Preview)

Sabin Nair, Principal Program Manager, Donnerstag, 31. Oktober 2019

Preview announcement for Export to data lake service. The Export to data lake service enables continuous replication of Common Data Service entity data to Azure data lake which can then be used to run analytics such as Power BI reporting, ML, data warehousing or other downstream integration purposes. It simplifies the technical and administrative complexity of operationalizing entities for analytics and managing schema and data. Within a matter of minutes, customers will be able to link their Common Data Service environment to a data lake in their Azure subscription, select standard or customer entities and export it to data lake. Any data or metadata changes (initial and incremental) in the Common Data Service is automatically pushed to the Azure data lake without any additional actions.

What’s New in Dataflows and Data Integration – September 2019

Miguel Llopis, Principal PM Lead - Power Query and Dataflows, Donnerstag, 19. September 2019

We’ve released lots of new features and enhancements to our Data Integration capabilities in PowerApps recently, enabling users to seamlessly connect to, transform and combine data from a wide range of data sources and load it into the Common Data Service, from where it can be used for creating apps, automated flows or analytics.

Custom connectors now available in solutions (Preview)

Casey Burke, Program Manager II, Mittwoch, 11. September 2019

Want to migrate your custom connectors between environments? Now you’re able to move multiple custom connectors along with Canvas apps, Flows, and CDS customizations in a single package.

Announcing the general availability of the new model-driven form designer

Anees Ansari, Principal Program Manager, Donnerstag, 5. September 2019

Today we are happy to announce that the new model-driven form designer is out of preview and available for general use. Few months back, we had started on the journey of providing a new form designer that helps take your form authoring experience to the next level.  Over that period, so many of you have actively used the new form designer and given us great, actionable feedback, thank you! All that feedback has helped us provide new features and updates in the form designer that meet your needs and boosts your productivity.

Preview for Improve data source experience and Common Data Service views

Adrian Orth, Principal Program Manager, Mittwoch, 14. August 2019

We are happy to announce the preview version roll out for the Improve data source experience and Common Data Service views feature this week.  This feature has been evolving under the experimental flag and is ready to be on for all new canvas apps by defaulting the feature on.