Introducing Performance Insights (preview) for Model-driven apps
Performance Insights, a new feature to help you improve the performance of your Model-driven apps, is now available in public preview!
» Read more Multi-table lookups now available! (Preview)
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.
» Read moreRead NFC tags with Power Apps on iOS and Android
Power Apps adds support for reading NFC and HF-RFID tags in Canvas apps.
» Read moreNew support for image and file data types in Dataverse customer managed key (CMK) environments
All CMK organizations as of version: 9.2.21052.00103 can now support the use of the Dataverse file column (aka file data type) and Image column (Image Data Type)
» Read moreAdvanced lookup experience in model-driven Power Apps
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.
» Read moreImportant New Feature: Relationship Validation for Solutions
Until now it was all too easy to create and publish a solution and overlook the backing relationships needed for the lookups that are present in the tables. A new feature will help eliminate this issue. Before October, you will need to validate your existing solutions now to make sure you have included all required relationships for your lookups.
» Read moreImportant Upcoming Change: Publishers can modify table properties on non-customizable tables through solutions
A feature update is being released in October that will allow a publisher to modify table properties within their solutions even though Allow Customizations is set to off. You will need to validate your existing solutions to make sure you have no table property changes that you do not wish to occur.
» Read moreThree new Power Apps Solutions to enhance information discovery and create more inclusive organizations
We are excited to announce the preview release of three new Power Apps Solutions on Dataverse for Teams: Profile+, Boards, and Perspectives. These apps are an addition to the series of extendable sample apps such as Employee Ideas, Inspections, Issue Reporting, Bulletins, and Milestones. These template solutions are helping organizations accelerate their journey to integrate Line of Business applications directly into the collaboration fabric of Teams and unlocking the next stage of digital transformation. Learn more about how you can leverage these recently released template solutions to enhance information discovery and creating a more inclusive culture in your organization.
» Read moreApril 2021 Power Apps Community Call: persistent apps in Teams tabs, custom functions libraries and gestalt design principles
The April Power Apps community call will be covering: ‘Make your Power Apps sessions persistent when switching Teams tabs!’. Power Apps custom Functions Library and Rory Neary will deliver the final technical session on Make your Power Apps user experience awesome with Gestalt design principles. When: March 17, 2021 8AM Pacific Time Where: https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join
» Read moreAnnouncing data source environment variables
Today we’re excited to announce a vast new set of capabilities that provide enterprise grade application lifecycle management for the data sources used within canvas apps and cloud flows. Environment variables are now natively built into authoring experiences across canvas apps and flows as well as solution and solution import experiences. We’ve also added several new API’s to simplify working with environment variables in code and within automated ALM pipelines.
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