How Microsoft built and adopted a customized “Release Planner” app

Luis Camino, Thursday, January 21, 2021

The Microsoft Business Application Group created an ingenious Power App to coordinate hundreds of product updates and releases. Through open-source technology, this same Power App can benefit your business or organization.

Announcing the General Availability of Geospatial Features in Power Apps

Jessica Lo, Program Manager II, Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Announcing the general availability of geospatial features in Power Apps

Source code files for Canvas apps

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, Thursday, January 14, 2021

Imagine using GitHub and Visual Studio Code with the text formulas of a Canvas app.  Teams can collaborate on apps: they can work on private branches, diff changes, create pull requests for review, and merge into master. We are very pleased to announce the experimental release of a tool that enables these modern miracles.  It is but the first step as we make application lifecycle management easier for formulas and Canvas apps.

Use the Innovation Backlog to manage app and flow ideas

Manuela Pichler, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, January 14, 2021

We’re excited to introduce you to the Innovation Backlog – a new app that’s part of the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit. The Innovation Backlog app gives your business users a place to record and prioritize their wish list of digital innovations. Your teams can use this app to submit ideas for apps and flows and describe pain points with the current process. Using a wizard to describe the current process, team members provide information about the people involved, the tools used, and ways to measure improvement.

3 low-code trends: why low-code will be big in your 2021 tech strategy

Dona Sarkar, Principal Cloud Advocate, Thursday, January 14, 2021

Whether you’re a software developer or someone who uses technology for their job, the way we work has fundamentally changed this year. Much of the workforce was spread out and working remotely. Serving customers became a challenge. Organizations needed to transform basic pen and paper processes, like paper timesheets submitted in the office and processed manually, and digitize them quickly with minimal business disruption.

Now available: model-driven app push notifications

Anthony Uitz, Principal Product Manager, Tuesday, January 12, 2021

With our updated push notification connector, you can now send push notifications to model-driven apps with Power Automate. These notifications can direct users straight to a specific page or section of your app – like the relevant entity view or form. Use any of the hundreds of pre-built connectors to trigger and provide dynamic data to push notifications for your apps today.

January Power Apps Community Call: Portals, Monitoring and Azure Integration!

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Monday, January 11, 2021

Bring in the new year with an amazing set of Power Apps community all stars: Brian Knighting showing how to get started with Power Apps Portals and creating anonymous access solutions with the Power Platform. Demo Extravaganza all-star Deepak Shrivastava demystifying how to use Azure API management with the Power Platform and monitoring and simplifying Power Apps debugging by Microsoft’s own Hazim SharafelDin

Stroke sufferer uses Power Apps to help other survivors

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Sunday, January 10, 2021

Modern day hero, Paul Burns shows how Power Apps can be used to help Stroke survivors regain hand and eye coordination

Announcing the General Availability (GA) of Monitor in Power Apps

Hazim SharafelDin, Thursday, January 7, 2021

Since its early announcement back in October, 2019, Monitor has helped thousands of Citizen and professional developers to efficiently troubleshoot and more rapidly solve issues they come across while building their Power apps and solutions. Now, we are excited to announce this tool is generally available (GA). We have introduced a new collaborative troubleshooting capability “Connect User” in Monitor to better facilitate team collaboration and troubleshooting.

You can now share Dataverse for Teams apps beyond a team

Matthew Bolanos, Program Manager, Wednesday, January 6, 2021

With broad distribution apps, you can now take an app that was built within a Teams team and share it with others inside of your company. This means you and a centralized development team can now build an app on top of Dataverse for Teams and then share it with a bunch of users who don’t belong to the original development team.