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Announcing the rich text editor (RTE) control

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Announcing the rich text editor (RTE) control

Update your bookmarks for web.powerapps.com

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Please update your bookmarks; content and services hosted at web.powerapps.com is moving to either make.powerapps.com or apps.powerapps.com

Email usability enhancements for 2020

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Email enhancements for 2020

Gartner Magic Quadrant Names Microsoft Power Apps a Leader for Low Code Application Platforms

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Today, we are announcing that Microsoft is a leader in the Gartner Low Code Application Platform (LCAP) Magic Quadrant. In the report, you’ll learn about Gartner’s assessment of the products in this market and explore their features.

Easily add and move fields and controls on a form using drag-drop and cut-paste

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Makers can now easily add and move fields and controls, to the exact location they want, directly on the form preview, and instantly see how the form will appear to end-users. Two new features added to the new form designer: drag-drop and cut-paste are making this possible. Combined with the live WYSIWYG preview of the form, these new features provide a big productivity boost when authoring forms.

April 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps

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Once again the team had incredibly busy month releasing over 13 new features or enhancements for making your application creation experience even more productive and fun.

Refine your data easily with updated column filtering and quick find on grids

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Grids in unified interface have intuitive and intelligent column filtering options that help you refine your data quickly and gain insights. Slicing your data with an Excel-like experience helps you be more productive and serves you a powerful tool to create filters that can be used for one-off filters or to create personal views.

Improved data source selection and Common Data Service views

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We are excited to announce that we have added a new experience rolling out this week for selecting data sources in canvas apps and to allow using the Common Data Services views as a filter on entities.  Configuring a gallery or data table control is much easier with a prompt guiding the data source or connector to use. With this new experience is an improved data access to Common Data Service and will soon include all of the recent connection improvements.  To streamline use of Common Data Service, the data source selection includes a list of suggested entities.  The ability to use entity views as a filter allows more advanced queries to be used without delegation limits.

Enable Common Data Service connector to select an environment

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Canvas apps now support changing the environment within the Common Data Service connector. The default behavior hasn’t changed and existing Common Data Service connections will continue to use the canvas app’s current environment. When adding a new data source, we now display the environment at the top of the list of entities. The default appears […]

IKEA Sweden – Reimagining the customer experience with Microsoft Power Platform

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IKEA Sweden partnered with Capgemini to build a Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solution for its sales staff to improve the kitchen buying experience for individual (B2C) and businesses (B2B) customers. This post describes details of the solution and key benefits to the team at IKEA.

Copilot now helps users draft text input in canvas apps

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We’re excited to announce Copilot assistance for inputting text when using Canvas apps. This new feature leverages the power of AI to help users craft well-written text, simplifying and speeding up the process of entering text in an app.

Modern advanced find with enhanced view management in model-driven apps

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We are announcing the availability of a modern advanced find in model-driven apps, including usability improvements to view management, all of which enable you to be more productive with data exploration. Now available for admins to enable with 2022 Release wave 1.

Best practices and workbooks to accelerate your Microsoft Power Platform adoption

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We have just launched new content and workbooks designed to help you create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary for your organization to succeed with Microsoft Power Platform: https://adoption.microsoft.com/powerplatform

Improving sales conversion by placing products directly in your customer’s space with Mixed Reality

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Showing products in a customer’s environment helps sales teams have better conversations about how a product might fit into a space, including how it impacts lines-of-sight and egress. By using Mixed Reality (MR), you can visualize products at real size in context of the physical world to close deals that would not have happened with just images or videos and differentiate your company from its competitors. Learn how to use the Power Apps Mixed Reality controls to land larger opportunities faster, increase customer satisfaction, and optimize brand performance – without the need for a specialized team of 3D / MR content creators, developers, and designers through low-code.

Power Apps portals: Announcing General Availability (GA) of Power Virtual Agents integration using “Chatbot” component

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We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Power Virtual Agents integration using “Chatbot” component that was introduced in May 2021 release as a preview feature.

Make higher quality Apps with Solution checker

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Have you ever asked yourself, “how can I increase the performance and reliability of my customizations and extensions?” and you just didn’t know where to start. Or the pressure to meet those new…

Microsoft Business Applications Summit is back – join us June 10-11, 2019 in Atlanta!

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Connect with experts, collaborate with your community and maximize learning opportunities at Microsoft Business Applications Summit, returning June 10-11, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. Back for its second…

Microsoft Ignite 2018 Event Recap – PowerApps & Microsoft Flow sessions

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List of sessions related to PowerApps and Microsoft Flow at the Microsoft Ignite 2018 event at Orlando

October PowerApps updates are rolling out. Say hello to many new features!

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We’re excited to share that many of the items in the October Release Notes are now beginning to roll into preview environments and in some cases are already available in production! We’ve focused across the board on quality, more powerful CDS capabilities, more productive makers, great end user experiences, and improved admin visibility.

Implementing Offline Capabilities for Relational Data

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As you may already know, POWERAPPS provides offline capabilities for your applications to enable users to be productive when there is limited internet access or no connectivity. Here is a blog which…

Announcing New Office Template series

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With its breadth of scope and depth of data, Microsoft Graph is quickly becoming the go-to API for app makers looking to increase productivity and build for business scenarios. The PowerApps team is…

Next in the Office Template series: Shoutouts

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Today, we’re thrilled to unveil the newest addition to the Office Template series: Shoutouts. Like the Out of Office app, it is a brand new template, available to customize, use as is, customize or use as an inspiration to build your own powerapp. By using the PowerApps Office 365 Outlook connector, and Office 365 Users connector, the app allows you to utilize the power of Microsoft APIs to better connect to and appreciate your peers.

Updates to Rules panel and image rotation support

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This update of PowerApps brings a number of enhancements to the Rules panel and Image control! Rename rules and Rule filtering improvement Rule panel now allows renaming rules to provide descriptive…