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Performance, Refresh button, ForAll, and multiple field lookups

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Release 2.0.531 is bursting at the seams with fresh improvements and new functionality.  We’ll cover a few of the bigger items here, with the full list on the What’s New page. Performance…

Introducing PowerApps admin center

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Enterprises use PowerApps to create business apps involving data and other resources that are critical for the enterprise and need to be restricted to a specific audience. An admin role is critical…

Update for PowerApps: Enabling single sign-on and more

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We released an update to PowerApps yesterday. This update contains a number of features as well as fixes that address feedback we’ve received from users. Below is list of what’s new.

How to upload images from the camera control to Azure blob storage

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This article explains how to create a Azure API App which takes in an image file, stores it on a Azure blob storage account and returns the URL of the image. This API can then be called from any application including PowerApps.

Create an app automatically from your data in PowerApps

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Automatically create an app by connecting PowerApps to your existing data sources like a list on SharePoint Online, an Excel file on OneDrive for Business, a table in Salesforce, and many more.

PowerApps Canvas App Accessibility Guidelines

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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”…

Owner, Customer, and Regarding for canvas apps

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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,…

Sharepoint Online document libraries now supported

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SharePoint Online document libraries are now available in canvas apps. Document libraries show up from the data sources panel when you select a SharePoint Online list as a data source. You can create experiences for your end users to view a listing of files that come from a SharePoint document library. Document libraries have a unique icon…

Announcing general availability of Solution Checker

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Today we have reached a key milestone, and we are happy to announce the general availability of Solution Checker.  Since December, when the PowerApps team rolled out the Solution Checker feature into Public preview, we have seen a great uptake in usage with 100’s of customers installing the checker, inspecting their code, and fixing key performance…

Display names and GUIDs for Canvas apps graduate

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Last fall we introduced display names and GUIDs for Canvas apps as Preview features.  Both have been well received with very few issues and very few authors turning these features off.  With our latest release (3.19032) these features are now permanent. To refresh your memory, display names allow the use of friendly names such as…

Introducing the 2019 Power Platform World Tour featuring PowerApps, Flow and Power BI

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Introducing the 2019 Power Platform World Tour featuring PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Power BI content from Microsoft team members, MVPs, Champions, and Subject Matter Experts. Power Platform World Tour will bring together thousands of users in cities all around the world to learn and network to work smarter, streamline processes, and advance their skill set.…

The Power Platform World Tour: 2 Stops Down… Endless Possibilities To Go

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The Power Platform World Tour (formerly referred to as the Power BI World Tour) is well underway as it recently wrapped up its second stop in Silicon Valley, California. With 24+ breakout sessions covering topics across the entire Power Platform, expert speakers, and great conversations fueled by gallons of coffee, it’s easy to see the…

Rabobank streamlines complex process from three weeks to three minutes using Microsoft Power Platform

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As part of a broad digitization strategy, Rabobank adopted Power Platform to streamline internal processes. Rabobank currently uses more than 2,500 Power Apps and Power Automate solutions, including solutions that reduced processing time from three weeks to three minutes.

Power Apps Mixed Reality Components General Availability

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Power Apps Mixed Reality components are now generally available! Communicate better with 3D models / images, take measurements, and validate fit before work begins leveraging the native capabilities of your mobile device within the context of your Power Apps apps

Meet Power Platform Champions

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We see a champion as someone who has embraced low-code to create change and impact for their organization using Microsoft Power Platform. Below are representative examples of champions from diverse backgrounds, locations, skillsets, and stories. We hope these serve as inspiration in your own journey adopting low-code and Power Platform along with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure. Bookmark this page, aka.ms/PowerChamps, to stay updated on new champion stories. For a set of 80+ curated stories, you can visit our Microsoft Power Platform stories blog post.

What’s new: Power Apps April 2023 Feature Update

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Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share a summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. A variety of new and highly anticipated features are now available which we are very excited to share including Managed Environment Updates, new Variable and Collections experience, and improvements to offline on mobile!

Announcing General Availability for model-driven apps offline for maker

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Do your users need to work on the go with spotty connectivity? With model-driven apps offline for makers experience in general availability, it is now easier than before to set up an app to work offline. After enabling your model-driven apps for offline, people in your organization can work seamlessly without worrying about connectivity! You…

Introducing the Relevance Search API

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Introducing the Relevance Search API for Common Data Service (CDS) environments. This provides access to exciting new search capabilities in environments with Relevance Search enabled.

Solution checker enforcement in Managed Environments is generally available

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Earlier this year, we announced public preview of the solution checker enforcement feature for Managed Environments. With solution checker enforcement, Power Platform admins can ensure solutions are pre-validated for various security, reliability, and performance issues before they’re imported into the environments. Since the public preview announcement, we made several enhancements and added many new capabilities.…

Latest PowerApps update introduces the App Usage report and the new Split string function

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The newest update for PowerApps (version 690) launches a preview of the ‘Usage’ report for app authors to review the usage of their apps across their organization and the ability to use a delimiter to break a text string into parts with the Split function.

Power Apps is empowering coders with next-generation AI capabilities

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Every year at Microsoft Build, Microsoft returns to its roots and puts developers at center stage. This year, Microsoft Power Apps is announcing a powerful set of next-generation AI capabilities and developer-focused features that improve productivity for all developers—including those who code.

Connect with other makers in your organization via maker matching, now in public preview!

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We are excited to announce the public preview release of maker matching in Power Apps! Maker matching, available within the integrated virtual agent, connects new makers with other experienced makers, advisors, and internal community members who can help directly when you need it. The support bot also surfaces relevant internal resources and community channels to…

New in ISV Studio: Read-only access!

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A new feature in ISV Studio now allows publishers to give more users access to ISV Studio without also giving access to the publishing process in Partner Center!

Update forms and views more conveniently with table designer

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We are pleased to announce the public preview of Update forms and views feature in table designer. With this new experience, makers can now add columns to their forms and views on the fly, instead of navigating away from their table to update their forms and views manually. This also means when working with table…