Enjoy two new experimental features for formula based components. Behavior properties enable a component to fire a custom event into its container, such as OnChange. Property parameters enable the passing of arguments for a property evaluation, providing our first steps toward formula based user defined functions.
» Read more 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.
Read more 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.
» Read more 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.
» Read more 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.
» Read more 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.
» Read more 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.
» Read more 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.
» Read more 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.
» Read more 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.
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