August Power Apps Community Call: Performance Insights, event calendar apps and game development

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, 08 August 2021

The August Power Apps community call we will be looking at: How the Feed your dragon game was created by Gerard Simpson, building Event Calendar Apps by Juli Reid. Varda Shrivastava will walk through how to analyze Model-driven applications performance data using Performance Insights. Power Platform Patterns and Practices updates by April Dunham with host and creator of the Power Apps community call, Power Platform MVP, Todd Baginski covering what’s new in Power Platform.

Try out the Power Apps October 2021 Release Wave 2 updates today!

Evan Chaki, Principal Group Program Manager, 02 August 2021

The Power Apps October release wave 2 makes discovering data much easier and comes with enhanced UI experiences that are modern; take advantage of these now for your Model-driven apps.

Announcing Monitor model-driven apps using Application Insights (Preview)

TJ Vassar, 01 August 2021

Use Application Insights to monitor & analyze service telemetry data produced by UCI page and form loads, Platform API calls, custom plug-ins, and more.

Announcing command designer with Power Fx (preview)

Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager, 28 July 2021

For the first time ever you can use command designer and Power Fx to customize model-driven app command bars! We’re excited to introduce many new low-code capabilities that also work with custom pages in converged apps.

Announcing public preview of Custom Pages for converging model-driven apps and canvas apps

Adrian Orth, Principal Program Manager, 27 July 2021

Announcing the public preview of Custom Pages which is a big leap forward in the convergence of model-driven apps and canvas apps into a single Power App.

Introducing Performance Insights (preview) for Model-driven apps

Varda Shrivastava, 20 July 2021

Performance Insights, a new feature to help you improve the performance of your Model-driven apps, is now available in public preview!

Multi-table lookups now available! (Preview)

Nathan Helgren, 06 July 2021

Multi-table lookups (also sometimes known as Polymorphic Lookups) allow the creation of a lookup in one table that looks up records in multiple other tables at once. This provides much greater flexibility in retrieving data within your environments. With multi-table lookups, you can perform a lookup on 2 or more tables at the same time and locate the record you want from the referenced tables.

Advanced lookup experience in model-driven Power Apps

Srihari Srinivasa, Principal Program Manager, 16 June 2021

Lookups are a core component of model-driven apps, as they help bring underlying data relationships in Microsoft Dataverse to life. Advanced lookup helps end users explore and find that data easily, so they are more productive with data-entry tasks.

Rename your Power Apps action-based data sources

Lance Delano, Principal Program Manager, 15 June 2021

Rename of connectors

Announcing the general availability of Power Apps component framework for Canvas apps

Hemant Gaur, Principal Program Manager, 11 June 2021

Today we are happy to announce the general availability (GA) of Power Apps component framework for canvas apps. This release marks a significant milestone for Power Apps to bridge the gap between code-first and citizen developers and offer true no-cliffs extensibility.