2021 Power Apps demo extravaganza open for submissions May 10

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, zaterdag 8 mei 2021

“Demo Extravaganza” is an incredibly fun community event where the contributors submits samples, community votes on which samples they want to see more of and have the top three authors show how their sample were built, best practices employed and challenges they overcame! If you want to participate here are the key dates! Entries start – May 10th Finalist voting starts – June 1st Finalist voting ends – June 30th Application Finals / Winner Announced – July 21st Component Finals demonstrate -August 18th

Portals support for Power Apps CLI (public preview)

Neeraj Nandwana, Senior Program Manager, woensdag 5 mei 2021

Power Apps CLI tooling is the first step toward a comprehensive application life-cycle management (ALM) story where the enterprise developers and ISVs can create, build, debug, and publish their extensions and customizations quickly and efficiently. More information: What is Microsoft Power Apps CLI? With this feature, Microsoft Power Apps portals supports Power Apps CLI to enable CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) of portal configuration. You can now check-in the portal configuration to source control and move portal configuration to any environment using Power Apps CLI.

Increased Alternate Key Limits

Nathan Helgren, dinsdag 4 mei 2021

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.

Better together: introducing Custom Pages and the Modern App Designer

Ryan Cunningham, Director PM, Power Apps, dinsdag 4 mei 2021

Today at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, we’re showing off a big step forward for the unification of the platform. Bring the full flexibility of the Power Apps canvas – from unlimited UX control to hundreds of data sources – directly into model-driven applications as a custom page using the new App Designer.

Dataverse demystified | Using the Power Platform’s advanced data backend for all your apps

Marc Mercuri, dinsdag 4 mei 2021

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.

How to Run a Manufacturing Facility Using the One Microsoft Cloud

Shayne Boyer, Principal Cloud Advocate, donderdag 29 april 2021

A manufacturing plant using Microsoft Power Platform to solve machine monitoring and servicing.

Join us for Microsoft Business Applications Summit! May 4th, 2021

Heather Newman, woensdag 28 april 2021

Join CVP, Charles Lamanna, and Ryan Cunningham, and the Power Apps Team on May 4th, 2021 at Microsoft Business Applications Summit!

Improve data density with High-Density Headers in model-driven apps.

Mark Spilde, Sr. Product Manager, dinsdag 27 april 2021

Build high productive forms with High-Density form headers.

Updates to the Azure File Storage and Excel Online (Business) connectors

Lance Delano, Principal Program Manager, maandag 19 april 2021

Azure File Storage and Excel Online (Business) Connector upgrade

April 2021 Power Apps Community Call: persistent apps in Teams tabs, custom functions libraries and gestalt design principles

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, zondag 18 april 2021

The April Power Apps community call will be covering: ‘Make your Power Apps sessions persistent when switching Teams tabs!’. Power Apps custom Functions Library and Rory Neary will deliver the final technical session on Make your Power Apps user experience awesome with Gestalt design principles. When: March 17, 2021 8AM Pacific Time Where: https://aka.ms/powerappscall-join