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February 2019

10 Reusable Components: tab control, calendar, dialog box, map control and more

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, 26 February 2019

This blog post will present a set of custom controls built using the new PowerApps component feature for Canvas apps. As a prerequisite, check out Yifie Wang’s blog post introducing the PowerApps components feature and Brian Dang’s “start your journey with components” blog post that includes instructions on importing/exporting components and more. Before we delve … Continue reading “10 Reusable Components: tab control, calendar, dialog box, map control and more”

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Quickly edit the filters for views

Anees Ansari, Principal Program Manager, Monday, 25 February 2019

Makers can now quickly and easily edit the filters for their model-driven views. The view designer displays filters in the Filter by … section in the property pane. Clicking on the individual filters in the property pane shows a dialog that allows makers to quickly update the operator and the value.

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Components: Start your Journey with Reusable Controls

Brian Dang, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Power Platform, Monday, 25 February 2019

In my first month of joining Microsoft, Emma Cooper, a Program Manager on the PowerApps team, knocked on my door with a shine of delight in her eyes. “You can copy and paste controls from one tab to another. Do you want to try it out?” Emma knew my answer without me needing to say … Continue reading “Components: Start your Journey with Reusable Controls”

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Virgin Atlantic drives agile wins for its mobile workforce with the Power Platform

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, 21 February 2019

In this post we’ll take a deep dive look at the successful adoption of the Microsoft Power Platform at Virgin Atlantic. We’ll start with a Safety and Compliance App, followed by Virgin Atlantic’s centralized administration approach to view and manage apps across the organization, and finally highlight a few additional PowerApps solutions deployed across Virgin Atlantic.

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Sharing PowerApps with multiple users

Linh Tran, Senior Program Manager, Friday, 15 February 2019

Today, we rolled out a new feature. You can share an app with a set of users in the company by simply copy and paste their names or emails instead of typing the full name for each individual user. Previously, you can only type in a single user at a time. If you paste a list … Continue reading “Sharing PowerApps with multiple users”

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Tree view has an “App” item to make app building easier

Emma Cooper, Senior Program Manager, Thursday, 14 February 2019

There’s a fancy new item in the tree view and its name is “App”. This App item is not a control, but is permanently there and contains properties of your app such as OnStart. In previous versions, the OnStart property was included in the property list of the first screen of your app. The feedback … Continue reading “Tree view has an “App” item to make app building easier”

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Relate records in Many-to-Many relationships

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, Thursday, 7 February 2019

Canvas app authors have new tools for working with Common Data Service for Apps relationships: Relate and Unrelate functions. Many-to-Many relationships Since December, you have been able to read Many-to-Many relationships using the experimental and then preview CDS connector. But it has been impossible to relate or unrelate two records and the join table is … Continue reading “Relate records in Many-to-Many relationships”

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January 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps

Evan Chaki, Principal Group Program Manager, Friday, 1 February 2019

The team has been busy the last month shipping new features and fixes for you. You can view the weekly release information here https://aka.ms/PAWeeklyReleaseNotes . Check the release table, by region, to find out when these features and fixes will be available. Canvas-app delegation of aggregate functions in Common Data Service for Apps In canvas apps, … Continue reading “January 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps”

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Digital Transformation @ SNCF (French national railway company)

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principal Program Manager, Friday, 1 February 2019

SNCF operates France’s national rail service and is a global leader in passenger and freight transport services. With 270,000 employees spread across 120 countries, it aims to become the benchmark for mobility and logistics solutions in France and worldwide. SNCF is a great partner for Microsoft and a good example of how a large company … Continue reading “Digital Transformation @ SNCF (French national railway company)”

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