You can now refer to the whole record in ForAll and other record scope functions with ThisRecord. You can even name that record with the As operator, allowing you to clarify formulas and work with all the records in nested ForAll and Gallery controls. And finally, we’ve added Excel’s Sequence function to generate a table containing a sequence of numbers, perfect for iterating a specific number of times with ForAll.
» Más información You can now set the timeout for the Notify function, controlling how long the banner appears, from 1 millisecond to infinity. And you can now sign out the current user with the Exit function, important in situations were devices are shared such as health care.
» Más información You can now replace a canvas app with another app or a web page in the same browser tab. In addition, a control can refer to itself in formulas.
» Más información You now have a new tool to better understand, debug, and improve your apps. Similar to a network trace, Monitor provides a running list of all the activity within your app. You can examine what data requests are made from your app, how long they took, how much data was returned, and which resulted in an error.
» Más información Welcome the SetFocus function to Canvas apps! You’ve got data to enter. Get it done fast by having the app position the cursor in the input field where we should begin. And when you go to validate, the app can take you directly to the offending entry, even if it scrolled off screen.
» Más información Welcome the With function to Canvas apps! You can now simplify large formulas by dividing them into named sub-formulas, eliminate redundant sub-formulas, and easily work with functions that return records. All while staying declarative and automatically responding to dependency changes.
» Más información Explore relationships, option sets, and other Common Data Service features with the Northwind Traders sample solution, recreated from the famous Microsoft Access sample. Detailed instructions are included for building the canvas app from scratch, explaining how to easily work with Many-to-one and One-to-many relationships between entities.
» Más información Introducing the JSON function for generating JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) within a canvas app. Use it to share data with systems and APIs that require JSON. You can also this function to encode and export images in base64 for the first time. And we also added two small features: #rrggbbaa notation and Color.Transparent.
» Más información Nobody wants to lose unsaved changed. And yet there are many ways to exit a canvas app while still in a dirty state, from closing the browser tab to swiping back to the list of apps on the phone. Now there is a way to prevent losing unsaved changes. The App object has two new … Continue reading “ConfirmExit for canvas apps”
» Más información Canvas apps now fully support CDS time zone independent fields. In the CDS preview connector we had blocked them until they were working properly. All the work required has now been completed and fully deployed. Our mission was simple: Canvas and Model-driven apps should show and edit date/time values in the same manner. Entering a … Continue reading “Time zone independent fields for Canvas apps”
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