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May 2019

5/15 Webinar: Best Practices for using Azure Blob Storage with PowerApps by Shane Young and Todd Baginski

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Monday, 13 May 2019

Welcome to another PowerApps community call. These calls we share the latest news about PowerApps, demonstrate tips and tools to help you build awesome PowerApps. You will meet the PowerApps product team and community experts to get your questions answered. In this month’s call we will discuss and demonstrate how to use Azure Blob Storage … Continue reading “5/15 Webinar: Best Practices for using Azure Blob Storage with PowerApps by Shane Young and Todd Baginski”

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Where in the world is the PowerApps World Tour next?

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Saturday, 11 May 2019

The Power Platform User Groups (Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow) are excited to announce that they have added another stop to the Power Platform World Tour – They are headed to beautiful Vienna, Austria! We have several other stops planned in 2019 such as: London Madrid Copenhagen Sao Paulo Mexico City Vienna Where would you like to … Continue reading “Where in the world is the PowerApps World Tour next?”

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Owner, Customer, and Regarding for canvas apps

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, Friday, 10 May 2019

Common Data Service polymorphic lookups are now available from canvas apps. You can now: Access, set, and filter on the Owner field of any record. Access and set the Company Name field (a Customer data type) of the Contacts entity. Access and set the Regarding field of activity entities such as Faxes, Phone Calls, Email Messages, … Continue reading “Owner, Customer, and Regarding for canvas apps”

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On-premises data gateway May 2019 update is now available

Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer, Friday, 10 May 2019

We are happy to announce that we have just released the May update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.5.185).

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PowerApps Canvas App Accessibility Guidelines

Pat Dunn, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, 9 May 2019

We are very pleased to announce our latest standards whitepaper – PowerApps canvas app accessibility guidelines! Why did we write this white paper? PowerApps embodies the idea of “democratization of development”—anyone in your organization can quickly and easily create a powerful app and share it broadly. But the app maker has an ethical, and sometimes legal, obligation to support “democratization of usage” … Continue reading “PowerApps Canvas App Accessibility Guidelines”

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The PowerApps portal is now faster to load

Matthew Bolanos, Program Manager, Thursday, 9 May 2019

One of the things we care most about on the PowerApps team is delivering reliable and performant experiences. We know that it doesn’t matter how easy-to-use or powerful a product is if it isn’t speedy and bug free.

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April 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Thursday, 9 May 2019

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.

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Add new fields while creating your canvas app

Sid Gundavarapu, Wednesday, 8 May 2019

While creating apps using the Common Data Service, makers select an entity as the data source and bind it with data controls. This allows them to add fields in the selected data source to a gallery, data table, or form. This is good for fields that are already present in the data source. However, if … Continue reading “Add new fields while creating your canvas app”

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Live now, full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019

Robert Emma, PowerApps, Community PM, Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Time to get excited – the full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit is here. Explore every breakout session and workshop coming to the conference, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia June 10 – 11, 2019. Get ready to flex your skills – and build new ones – with all things PowerApps and beyond. Deep … Continue reading “Live now, full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019”

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Extend the power of WYSIWYG form authoring to quick create and quick view forms

Anees Ansari, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, 7 May 2019

The new form designer now supports authoring quick create and quick view forms. All the beneficial features of the new form designer such as WYSIWYG preview, enhanced fields pane, quick-access property pane, tree view and more now extend to quick create and quick view form authoring to help enable a rich and productive experience.

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