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Microsoft Dataverse support for Power BI Direct Query reaches general availability

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Announcing general availability of Microsoft Dataverse support for Power BI Direct Query.

Announcing Visual Data Prep public preview (Diagram View in Power Platform Dataflows)

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This post is an overview of ‘Visual Data Prep’ (Diagram View) within Power Platform dataflows which is going into Public Preview.

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.

Power BI embedded as system dashboard in model-driven apps (preview)

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Announcing the public preview of Power BI embedded as a system dashboard in the Power Apps model-driven app.

Important Bug Fix Information: ActivityPointer Tables Cannot Add Custom Columns

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A bug fix to prevent users from adding columns to ActivityPointer is being deployed. If users added any custom columns to ActivityPointer they may need to take action.

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

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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.    

Table Permissions in portals Studio

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Introducing table permissions to portals Studio.

Canvas app layout containers are now generally available

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We are excited to announce the general availability of the container, horizontal container and vertical container layout controls in canvas apps! These controls help you automatically reflow and resize controls within them to enable easy, no expression layouts in canvas apps.

Power Apps portals: Edit portal with Power Platform VS Code Extension (public preview)

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The VS Code extension for portals adds the capability to configure portals using VS Code, and utilize the built-in Liquid language IntelliSense enabling help with code completion, assistance and hinting while customizing portals interface using VS Code

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

Power Apps portals: Start using code components with portals (Preview)

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Power Apps component framework support is now extended to Power Apps portals for field type of code components. This feature is currently available as public preview starting with portal 9.3.3.x update and starter portal package version 9.2.2103.x

World Cup 2018 Prediction Game with PowerApps

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If you are a soccer fan then this blog is for you. With the world cup kicking off in just a week, I thought I would share a fun app that you can deploy within your organization to get your colleagues…

Auto-generate thumbnails using an Azure Function and Azure Blob Storage

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Now that you can use the Azure Blob Storage connector inside of your canvas PowerApp, you can leverage the advanced capabilities of Azure functions inside of your Azure blob storage. A common…

Faster authoring canvas and an easier way to click and move buttons while editing apps

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In the latest release, we made a significant update to the way the canvas is rendered that will improve authoring performance and to better align it with the actual experience of end users. While…

Building Power BI reports for the Common Data Service for Apps

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In the May update of Power BI desktop, we are excited to see the release of the new Power BI connector for the Common Data Service for Apps. The CDS for Apps Power BI connector allows you to connect directly to your entities and build compelling reports and dashboards, and share them with users on Power BI online and mobile apps.

ShowError function changes its name to Notify as it learns some new tricks

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A quick note.  A few months ago we introduced a new ShowError function that could display a banner error message. We heard from the community that they liked it but wished they could display…

New Capabilities for Testing Model-Driven Apps

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We are excited to announce several key enhancements and updates to automated testing capabilities for Dynamics 365 and model-driven standalone PowerApps.  With this release we are providing…

Upload files from PowerApps using the Azure Blob Storage connector

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One of the more common request we have seen from customers is that they want to use PowerApps and use Azure Blob storage to store their media files. So far, this has not been possible out of the box –…

Guest Blog: Build Custom API on Microsoft Flow and PowerApps with Authentication

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Guest blog post from Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki, where he shows us how to build an use a custom api and the authentication with Azure AD and Google account

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…

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…

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.

Creative Apps and Design Challenge – Part 3 The Annimated Pie Chart

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As a last step in my creative challenge, we learn to make the animated pie chart as an app focal point. It’s really as easy as 1-2-3!

Working with large SharePoint lists in PowerApps

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Today we are happy to announce support for building apps that connect to large SharePoint lists using PowerApps, a top request from our users.

Creative Apps and Design Challenge – Part 2 – The How

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It is easy to create apps that are beautiful, as well as easy to use, when you leverage PowerApps formulas alongside media components which can act as custom controls. In this blog, we’ll learn how to create a single page app that requires no typing at all to submit humidity and temperature data to a SharePoint list. This part of the app build will take around 20 minutes to complete.