Tree view has an “App” item to make app building easier

Emma Cooper, Program Manager II, 2019年2月14日

There’s a fancy new item in the tree view and its name is “App”.  This App item is not a control, but is permanently there and contains properties of your app such as OnStart. In previous versions, the OnStart property was included in the property list of the first screen of your app. The feedback …

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Relate records in Many-to-Many relationships

Greg Lindhorst, Principal Program Manager, 2019年2月7日

Canvas app authors have new tools for working with Common Data Service for Apps relationships: Relate and Unrelate functions. Many-to-Many relationships Since December, you have been able to read Many-to-Many relationships using the experimental and then preview CDS connector.  But it has been impossible to relate or unrelate two records and the join table is …

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January 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps

Evan Chaki, Principal Program Manager, 2019年2月1日

The team has been busy the last month shipping new features and fixes for you.  You can view the weekly release information here https://aka.ms/PAWeeklyReleaseNotes .  Check the release table, by region, to find out when these features and fixes will be available.   Canvas-app delegation of aggregate functions in Common Data Service for Apps In canvas apps, …

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Digital Transformation @ SNCF (French national railway company)

Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Principle Program Manager, 2019年2月1日

SNCF operates France’s national rail service and is a global leader in passenger and freight transport services. With 270,000 employees spread across 120 countries, it aims to become the benchmark for mobility and logistics solutions in France and worldwide. SNCF is a great partner for Microsoft and a good example of how a large company …

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Introducing canvas components

Yifei Wang, Program Manager, 2019年1月31日

I am very excited to announce that canvas components are now available in production as an experimental feature! Canvas components make it easier to build reusable controls, such as navigation menus and dialogs. The ‘master’ / ‘instance’ behavior makes it easy to reuse them as building blocks inside the app or shared between apps. Why components? …

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SaveData and LoadData Unleashed

Greg Lindhorst, Principal Program Manager, 2019年1月31日

Some big news!   Or at least much bigger news. Canvas app SaveData and LoadData functions are now only limited by the amount of available app memory and local storage on a device.  The previous limit of a few megabytes no longer applies.   This is a huge improvement that will increase the stability of any app that …

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PowerShell scripts to discover and manage specific features in the Power Platform

Denise Moran, Program Manager, 2019年1月30日

As the number of users, apps and flows in a tenant grows, it can be hard to manage what connections are being used by which apps and flows. Use the PowerShell scripts below, which are built with the PowerApps and Flow Administration module, to discover which PowerApps and Flows use specific features like custom connectors/APIs, …

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Upgrade your previous version Common Data Service database, apps, and flows

Jim Daly, Senior Program Manager, 2019年1月30日

Learn how to upgrade your previous version Common Data Service (CDS) database along with any canvas apps and flows that depend on it to the new CDS for Apps database. Or, delete your previous version CDS database and create a new empty CDS for Apps database.

Power Platform World Tour in Silicon Valley, CA on February 19-20th

Robert Emma, PowerApps, Community PM, 2019年1月25日

Learn about the latest Power Platform innovations straight from the source and transform the way you use do business by attending the Power Platform World Tour in Silicon Valley, CA on February 19-20. You’ll learn how to bring your company through the digital transformation by gaining new understandings of your data and deepening your knowledge …

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Do you sell your apps? We’d like to talk to you!

Max Peterschmidt, 2019年1月24日

Are you an Independent Software Vendor?  Have you built a PowerApps App that wasn’t custom-built for a specific organization? We want to meet with you to learn more about how you work, and how we can make PowerApps work better for you and others like you! If you fit this description and are willing to …

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