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 more 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.
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Announcing Power Fx integration with Model-driven Power Apps commanding and Dataverse calculated columns and rollups. We have also partnered with Acumatica to evaluate how Power Fx can be leveraged with the low code/no code experience they offer to their customers. And finally we have an update on our planned open source architecture.
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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 more Dataverse is increasing the limits for Alternate Keys (previously known as Entity Keys). Prior to this change, each table was limited to 5 alternate keys.
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Check out the new demo-filled Dataverse episode of Microsoft Mechanics. The interview covers the topics we get asked about most and covers everything from building low code Power Apps with Dataverse for Teams to defining business rules to creating search powered chatbots with Power Virtual Agents to a tour of pro dev capabilities in Dataverse.
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A manufacturing plant using Microsoft Power Platform to solve machine monitoring and servicing.
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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.
» Read more This blog will cover several recent improvements for application and environment lifecycle management as well as a glimpse into our ALM roadmap. If you haven’t already, now is the time to adopt solutions and an ALM strategy!
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For the March community call we are happy to announce Reza will be delivering his: Responsive Dataverse for Teams Power Apps session. In addition, we have two additional topics “You” indicated wanting to see more of: Application Lifecycle Management and Artificial Intelligence using AI Buiilder. For March we have two of our Power CAT super stars: Phil Topness and Michael Ochs walk through how to get started with Application Life Cycle Management for Power Platform. Uday Adhikari will then walk through how to Use AI Builder to do document tagging in Power Apps.
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