Summary: Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share what’s new in Power Apps. A summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. This month we’re excited to shared a simplified approach to writing Power Fx with Copilot, Performance improvements to the Canvas designer, Studio visual updates, and smart paste for model driven apps!

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Check out some of our latest improvements in this month’s Power Apps Pulse!

This month, it’s all about adding that shine! Power Apps Studio has a fresh new look, we’ve given you more ways to add web resources, and now you can customize your modern themes to get exactly the right color at each step of the ramp. Get in the know with this month’s Power Apps Pulse!

Power Apps Formula Creation with Natural Language Input

The latest update to the Power Apps formula bar introduces a new “Create a Formula” option, allowing users to craft Power Fx formulas using natural language. This innovation simplifies the formula creation process, making it more accessible for users of all skill levels. Enable this preview feature in your app settings, and then by typing a desired action in plain language, the AI suggests the appropriate formula, which can then be applied to the selected control and property.

Additionally, the update enhances the formula explanation capability, enabling users to select a portion of a formula and receive a plain language explanation of the selected part. This is particularly beneficial for understanding long or complex formulas. The Copilot in the formula bar now supports more languages, broadening the feature’s accessibility.

Modernization and visual update of the Power Apps Studio

In the effort to provide better out of the box accessibility, performance, and alignment with Microsoft product set we’ve updated the Power Apps Studio across both the canvas and model driven designers. This milestone creates a modern look and feel, as well as improved coherence throughout the Power Apps authoring experience for makers working across multiple app types, the plan designer and data workspace. No action is required to see the new updates, rolling out now.

Improved Studio performance with the new analysis engine

While you edit or play your app in Studio, a continuous analysis of app elements and their interactions is happening in the background. For example, this allows us to know that if you change an expression `Set(x, 5)` to `Set(x, {Lorem: “Ipsum”})` that the type of `x` is now a record instead of a number, and any references in your app to `x + 1` will therefore be marked as erroneous.  

To improve performance and reliability while building apps, we released the updated analysis engine, Generally Available and will be on by default for all Canvas apps, starting February 2025. To migrate ahead of this, go to app settings, and turn on ‘New analysis engine’ setting under Updates > New.

Performance Boost: The New Analysis Engine optimizes how we approach that analysis, complex Canvas apps that previously took minutes to load should now load much faster. Note that this is an authoring load time and edit time performance improvement and has no impact on app run time performance.

Accuracy: The New Analysis Engine enables more accurate determination of variable and collection types, reliably identifies the columns used in your app, and enhances Data Source call performance in published apps.

Intelligent Apps

New smart paste available in your model-driven apps

Smart paste is designed to make form-filling in model-driven apps as simple as copy & paste. Now you can effortlessly fill forms based on the information you already have, transforming the tedious task of filling forms with a smarter, faster, and more intuitive way to handle forms. We are also introducing citations so you can easily identify where suggestions come from, and expanding form fill assistance (including the new smart paste) to quick create forms.  

To learn more, read the blog at New smart paste makes filling forms as easy as copy & paste – Microsoft Power Platform Blog and documentation at Use Copilot’s form fill assistance feature in model-driven apps – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn.  

Learning and Documentation Updates

Training Paths and Labs

Updated Training

• Create a Dataverse table for the machine ordering app – Online workshop – Training
• Integrate a Power Apps app with Power Automate – Online Workshop – Training
• Create a model-driven Power Apps app for machine ordering – Online Workshop – Training

Documentation Updates

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Summary: Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share what’s new in Power Apps. A summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. This month we’re excited to share the GA of field suggestions for Model Driven makers, Data workspace in 9 langagues worldwide and improved ALM for virtual tables and Copilot Studio!

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See highlights of what’s new this month on Power Apps Pulse!

We’ve got some great enhancements to share this month! It’s never been easier to share your canvas apps, check out new ways to work with JSON-based data with updates to how you can use ParseJSON(), and build UI faster with improvements to the Copilot button inline action. Get in the know with this month’s Power Apps Pulse!

Copilot Field Suggestions for Model Driven Apps Forms and Views is available in GA

We are excited to announce that makers can leverage Copilot for column suggestions when creating new Forms and Views. You don’t have to start from blank any longer. When creating a new View, for example, makers can select Get AI generated column suggestions, which will enable Copilot to generate suggested columns for the View based on the Table columns, and View name or descriptions if they are available. This option is also available for new Quick view and Quick create forms.

The feature is available worldwide for English language users.

Data workspace is now generally available in 9 languages worldwide 

Craft your data model from natural language input, Excel file, or SharePoint list with Copilot assistance. Build deployment-ready business solutions involving multiple tables at a time in ERD view. Create not just canvas apps, but also model-driven apps on top of your business data — all available through Data Workspace in 9 languages now!

Comment Generated Formulas is now GA and available in multiple languages!

We are excited to announce that our Comment Generated Formulas feature is now generally available (GA)! This innovative tool allows you to create Power Fx formulas directly from code comments by typing // followed by your natural language request, making it easier than ever to create Power Fx formulas. Simply direct the Copilot on what you want to do in plain language, and our AI will generate the corresponding formula for you by leveraging the context of the application.

In addition to its general availability, the Comment Generated Formulas feature now supports multiple languages beyond English. This enhancement ensures that users around the globe can take full advantage of this powerful tool in their native language, whether it’s French, Spanish, German, or any other supported language. For all new apps, this feature is enabled automatically. For existing apps, you can easily turn it on from the New Settings. So make sure you have enabled the feature, and start transforming your comments into functional formulas today!

Enterprise-Grade Governance

New Rule for Generative AI features

Since some Copilots and generative AI features are not available in all geos or languages, we previously introduced two settings that enable Copilot features by allowing processing of data outside of region. This month, we are announcing a way to manage these settings at scale by using a new rule for environment groups.

Tenant admins can configure environment groups and publish the “Generative AI settings” rule to enable/disable cross-geo data movement and/or Bing search. For more information on these settings, see Turn on copilots and generative AI features – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn.

Application Lifecycle Management for Virtual Tables

We’re thrilled to announce an enhancement for virtual tables—Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capability! This new functionality enables developers to streamline the transition of virtual tables in Solutions across Power Platform environments using environment variables.

Environment variables are essential to effective ALM, allowing developers to adjust connection references as virtual tables move from one environment to another. For example, when integrating with SharePoint, developers can update the connection reference to reflect a test or production URL. Similarly, for SQL integrations, switching between test and production servers is now straightforward.

With this new feature you can add virtual tables to a solution, export the solution, and import it into other environments, complete with all virtual table settings. This enhancement simplifies deployment and management, empowering developers to build with even greater efficiency and flexibility.

Healthy ALM in Microsoft Copilot Studio: Solution Explorer in Microsoft Copilot Studio (MCS) is in Public Preview

Solution explorer in Copilot studio is now available in public preview, and the team is thrilled to announce the launch of the latest features designed to manage copilots and their components like knowledge, topics, actions and more! Whether you’re Maker or ISV or End customer, Solution explorer offers capabilities to transport & deploy copilots and components between environments, to customize and extend existing copilot with proper controls. ALM in Copilot Studio is our desire to democratize conversational AI as a part of that mission to empower. We’ve listened to our customers’ needs and worked tirelessly to bring an ALM that truly stands out.   

Feature #1 Access solutions in MCS: In addition to accessing Solutions in MCS, customers can now create a new solution, add existing copilot to the solution and view all the objects related to the copilots, all within MCS without navigating out of the current platform. 

Feature #2: Create Copilot using solution: Customers can now create copilot using a solution which is their preferred solution within MCS. This prevents us from having any orphaned customizations

Feature #3 Edit and Extend copilot and components using solutions: Customers can now edit and extend copilot and its components using a solution which is their preferred solution within MCS. This helps to seamlessly upgrade and deploy copilots. 

Feature #4 Deploy copilot and components using Pipelines with a single click: Customers can now use pipelines as a single click process to deploy Copilots to Prod environment and is a very secure way to accomplish this migration.  

Create and manage custom solutions – Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

Export and import copilots using solutions – Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

Export and import copilot components using solutions – Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

Learning and Documentation Updates

Training Paths and Labs

Updated Training

• Build your first app with Power Apps and Dataverse for Teams
• Build a mobile-optimized app from Power Apps
• Work with canvas app source code
• Configure forms, charts, and dashboards in model-driven apps
• Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
• Design a Power Apps canvas app by using Figma
• Get started with Power Apps and SharePoint
• Use specialized components in a model-driven form

Documentation Updates

The post What’s new in Power Apps: October 2024 Feature Update appeared first on Microsoft Power Platform Blog.

Summary: Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share what’s new in Power Apps. A summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. This month we’re excited to share some key announcements from Power Platform Community Conference, Explain this in GCC, the GA of Power Catalog and more!

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This month on Power Apps Pulse!

This month we’re excited to share improvements to Modern Theming, a new responsive template to create a list and details screen with lightning speed, a way to choose a data source for multiple controls on a screen with one click, and a new way to open existing .msapp files. See how in this month’s Power Apps Pulse!

Start building from plans, announced at PPCC

Great solutions don’t (usually) start in code, or by immediately designing the UI. Most experienced developers and teams start with an understanding of the problem, the users involved, and their requirements, before they even write the first line of code or draft a first app screen. We’re excited to bring the ability to build a plan to the Power Apps Studio. With this ability developers will be able to start working on the business problem in an iterative discussion with Copilot in Power Apps – they will be able to better keep connection between the business requirements and the solution they are building. This iterative and outcome focused development cycle can all happen right within Power Apps Studio.

Plan designer is rolling out initially as an Early Adopters Program, you can read the blog to find out how to sign up.

Copilot Power Fx Formula Explanations now available in GCC

We are excited to share that we are bringing the Copilot experience to our Government Cloud customers! As of September 24th, you will begin to see the Formula Bar Copilot button enabled for GCC (Government Community Cloud) environments and tenants that have authorized the use of Copilot and have enabled cross-region data movement for the environment. From the Copilot button, you can select the option to Explain the Formula and receive a natural language description of what the formula is doing in the context of the app. The “Explain the Formula” feature can help you quickly diagnose problems in an app by explaining each formula in simple to understand terms.

More exciting Copilot features for GCC are on the way! We can’t wait for you to try it out! Please share your thoughts and any feedback you may have by clicking the Thumb Up/Down icon in the explanation window.

Intelligent Application workload guidance as part of Power Platform Well-Architected

We are excited to announce the release of new documentation on Intelligent Application Workloads in Power Platform, as part of Power Platform Well-Architected. This comprehensive guide provides actionable insights for planning, developing, and maintaining intelligent application workloads, leveraging the Power Platform Well-Architected design principles. Key areas covered include responsible AI, security and compliance, performance optimization, deployment and testing, and integration options. Whether you’re a workload owner, technical stakeholder, or business stakeholder, this guide is designed to help you build robust, secure, and efficient intelligent applications.

Enterprise-Grade Governance

Announcing Public preview for mask sensitive data with column-level security

All enterprise and financial customers are required to protect their customers’ personal data and sensitive information from data leaks.

Highly privileged users who have access to customers’ personal data and sensitive fields can see these fields in their entirety. There is a risk when these employees can download sensitive information using bulk export operations. With this feature, the admin can mask sensitive fields and eliminate the risk of sensitive data being bulk exported.

Column-level security – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

Create and manage masking rules (preview) – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

General availability for cross-tenant license recognition Power Apps using Dataverse

To reduce administrative overhead for multi-tenant organizations using Power Apps, we are super excited to announce the general availability of cross tenant license recognition for canvas and model driven apps using Dataverse! When end-users access an app outside of their home tenant, Power Apps recognizes use rights the user has in both their home tenant or in the resource tenant (where the app is hosted). This is an enhancement to the cross tenant license recognition that already existed for canvas apps not using Dataverse.

Power catalog is Generally Available

The catalog enables makers to share and install re-usable components and templates that are customized for their orgs, by their orgs. This provides much more useful starting points than generic templates. 

Because the Catalog is built on top of our Solutions framework, you can also easily install Catalog items from any environment in a tenant, update items so that makers use the most recent, authoritative version, and have Catalog components accessible from authoring experiences, like Canvas Studio.

The Catalog also comes with Enterprise level security. By default, Catalog items must be approved by a delegated approver before they can be officially published and accessible by your org. There are also access controls for users to be able to submit, acquire, approve, or administer the Catalog. In order to resubmit new versions, a maker needs to belong to the original publishing group. The Catalog now enables you to manage your re-usable assets across your tenant in a secure way.

Virtual table to Dataverse native table relationship

Unlocking the power of Virtual Tables 

In the fast-paced world of data management, the ability to seamlessly integrate and relate data across various sources is essential. One of Dataverse’s features is its support for virtual tables, which enables real-time data access from external systems without the need to duplicate data within Dataverse. We are announcing General Availability of new capability which allows Makers the ability to create N:1 relationships between Dataverse virtual tables and Dataverse native tables.  

Enhancement Enables Business Value 

Unified Data View: With this feature users can take business decisions with a more cohesive data view that spans across native and external data sources. This is especially useful for organizations that maintain critical data in external systems but want to leverage the powerful data view and relationship capabilities of Dataverse.  

Streamlined User Experience: For end-users, this means a more seamless experience. They can work with data from various sources without needing to know or care where the data is physically stored. Whether it’s a customer record in Dataverse or an order history stored in an external SQL database, the user interaction remains consistent. 

By relating virtual and native tables, you can unlock new possibilities in reporting and analytics. Imagine creating a report that combines data from an external ERP system with native Dataverse data, all within the same environment. 

Content: Setting up relationships with virtual tables with Power Apps – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn​​​

Learning and Documentation Updates

Training Paths and Labs

Updated Training

• Create formulas that use tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps – Training
• Create formulas to change properties in a Power Apps canvas app – Training
• Set up low-code plug-ins – Training
• Get started with Power Apps canvas apps – Training
• Create tables in Microsoft Dataverse – Training
• How to build the User Interface in a canvas app in Power Apps – Training
• Make your app like a pro – Training
• Use Power Query to load data in Dataverse – Training
• Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app – Training

Documentation Updates

The post What’s new in Power Apps: September 2024 Feature Update appeared first on Microsoft Power Platform Blog.

By 2026, 40% of net-new applications will be intelligent apps…[that] incorporate AI to enhance existing experiences and form new use cases

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Developer and DevOps 2024 Predictions

Copilot will continue to bring a tremendous opportunity for developers and end users to be more productive. Power Apps will enable makers and end users with Copilot and a team of agents, each with rich domain skills across solution architecture, data modelling, and data exploration. Makers will be able to build intelligent solutions that solve business problems faster and with less effort.

Start with a plan

Great solutions don’t (usually) start in code, or by immediately designing the UI. Most experienced developers and teams start with an understanding of the problem, the users involved, and their requirements, before they even write the first line of code or draft a first app screen. We’re excited to bring the ability to build a plan to the Power Apps Studio. With this ability developers will be able to start working on the business problem in an iterative discussion with Copilot in Power Apps – they will be able to better keep connection between the business requirements and the solution they are building. This iterative and outcome focused development cycle can all happen right within Power Apps Studio.

Makers will be able to start with a description of their business problem as well as provide additional context like process diagrams, data models, or even screenshots of legacy apps. Copilot will use this input to draft user roles and requirements for the solution. From this starting point, makers can continue to add or change roles and their requirements directly or with the assistance of Copilot.

Once the team will be aligned on requirements, Power Apps will propose a data model to support the solution and allow the maker to explore and make updates through a visual entity relationship diagram (ERD).

When the maker will be ready to start building the solution components, the plan designer will recommend what types of apps and automation will fit their requirements. In the initial release of this functionality, the recommendations will include Canvas and model driven apps, and cloud flows in Power Automate.

This entire process of building a plan and generating solution components is iterative and collaborative. At any point makers are able to make changes to defined user roles, requirements, data model, or the proposed user experiences.

And this additional context and grounding isn’t available just for the creation experience – the plan will now live alongside the solution, changing with it and making sure the understanding of the problem and requirements isn’t lost. This way anyone who comes to edit the existing solutions can not only see the actual status quo, but the rationale that led to it.

From the view of suggested apps, makers can jump into app generation, see a live preview of the app for quick validation, and leverage the full power of the canvas and model driven designers to customize and continuing building the app.

Power Apps Studio is evolving to enable developers throughout the entire software development cycle, centered on the end user and their requirements. The plan designer is going to be available through Early Adopters Program, before entering public preview. You can request to join at https://aka.ms/LetsBuildaPlan – this doesn’t grant immediate access but will get you on the list as we expand to more users to engage with the product team, provide feedback, and get hands-on with the plan designer and intelligent apps.

Collaborate with Copilot and your team

While building alongside Copilot continues to improve, so does working alongside the rest of your team. We’re extremely excited to announce that Coauthoring in Power Apps is now generally available. The ability to work with a team of developers, business users, and other stakeholders in a single pane of glass brings great advantages. Especially in a world where low-code and code-first development happens in one solution.

Building apps that are intelligent from the start

This week we also announced updates for end users to easily work with data in their apps. With smart paste, instead of tediously searching for the right inputs, the end user can copy text from an e-mail or other source, let Copilot identify the right information, and map the content directly to their form. From there, users can decide what to accept or change.

Additionally, when working over a large number of records, Copilot is able to help search and filter the data for users. Instead of numerous point-and-click actions, they can use natural language to quickly filter and search through data directly on the grid.

These updates, available in Public Preview, continue to bring intelligent skills to core tasks for our end users, without the need for the developer to custom build an experience.

Request to join and become an early adopter

If you’re passionate about these updates coming for makers and end users, please join our Early Adopters Program. This doesn’t grant immediate access but will get you on the list as we expand to more users to engage with the product team, provide feedback, and get hands-on with the plan designer and intelligent apps.

You can request to join here: https://aka.ms/LetsBuildaPlan

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Summary: Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share what’s new in Power Apps. A summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. This month we’re excited to share Copilot updates, GA of some key features for our makers and a huge set of Learning and Documentation updates.

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Introducing our first episode of Power Apps Pulse!

We’re delighted to share with you a new series highlighting incremental improvements each month aimed at making app building faster, easier, and more delightful for your app users. Check out these updates and get making with Power Apps Pulse!

Use Copilot to filter to quickly filter, sort, and search canvas app galleries with SharePoint lists

We are excited to announce that Power Apps application runtime users can now use Copilot to filter to quickly filter, sort, and search the items in canvas app galleries with SharePoint. Copilot to filter uses your natural language to generate a query to the database that scopes the current view of records in a gallery so you can quickly find the records you need. This feature is available only for Power Apps canvas web apps and only at runtime for all applications that have been republished after version 7.4 which is expected to be available starting on July 29. It will be fully rolled out to all regions several weeks later. This premium feature is on by default and authors may disable if required.

Unlocking Power Apps: Exploring New Copilot Features with April Dunnam | Copilot Learning Hub

Join us on Copilot Learning Hub as we dive into the latest Copilot capabilities within Microsoft Power Apps. In this episode, Dona welcomes April Dunnam, a Power Apps expert, to showcase the innovative features that are transforming how users interact with Power Apps. From a comprehensive walkthrough of the new capabilities to practical demos, this episode is packed with insights for both beginners and advanced users. Discover how to leverage Copilot in Power Apps to enhance your productivity and streamline your workflows. Don’t miss out on this informative session.

Call SQL Server procedures directly in Power Fx (GA)

We are excited to announce that calling SQL Server stored procedures in Power Fx is now generally available in all regions. You do not need to call a Power Automate Flow to use a stored procedure making development of Power Apps for SQL easier for authors and faster overall performance for both authors and end users. The ability to call stored procedures for the SQL connector directly is an extension to the existing tabular model and gives users access to tables, views, and stored procedures. This feature extends our ongoing support of SQL Server as a primary development target for Power Apps.

Enterprise-Grade Governance

General availability for delete app users and view platform app users

Admins can take advantage of a modern and accessible UI to manage application users. Admins can do this by using the Application users page in the environment settings in the Power Platform admin center. Application users can be added, updated (or refreshed), and deactivated. Now deactivated application users can be deleted. Admins can also view the list of platform application users with their respective security role assigned.

General Availability for Delete stub, unlicensed, and removed Microsoft Entra group users.

Previously, stub users, unlicensed, or removed Microsoft Entra group users couldn’t be deleted from a Dataverse environment. These types of users remained in a Dataverse environment with a disabled status and were unable to log into the environment. You can now delete these users with the disabled status in your environment to comply with privacy laws, regulatory requirements, and to free up storage space.

Learning and Documentation Updates

Training paths and Labs

Updated Training

• Create a machine ordering Power Apps canvas app – Online Workshop
• Integrate a Power Apps app with Power Automate – Online Workshop
• Create a Dataverse table for the machine ordering app – Online workshop
• Create a model-driven Power Apps app for machine ordering – Online Workshop
• Use Copilot in Power Apps

Documentation Updates

The post What’s new in Power Apps: August 2024 Feature Update appeared first on Microsoft Power Platform Blog.

Summary: Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share what’s new in Power Apps. A summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. This month we’re excited to share Copilot updates, GA of some key features for our makers and a huge set of Learning and Documentation updates.

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Explain formulas in more languages!

Comment generated formulas is now on by default for new apps

More makers now have access to the ability to generate Power Fx from natural language using Copilot. Any new app that is created will allow makers to use the comment (// or /*) syntax to input a text description of what they want the formula to do, pause and wait a few seconds or push enter to have copilot begin generating a formula.  If a formula can be generated on the prompt provided, it is shown and the user can accept or reject the suggestion or can rewrite the prompt to have the copilot try again.

To turn on this capability for existing apps, go to Canvas Studio settings > Updates > Preview > and turn the toggle to On for “Copilot comment-generated formulas”

Learn more

Explore and test Dataverse in the Web API playground

The API playground is a preauthenticated software testing tool that helps makers quickly and conveniently interact with the Microsoft Dataverse Web API. This web application allows developers to test and experiment with different API endpoints without the need for extensive setup or authentication processes. It also conveniently presents certain available actions and links to documentation for faster learning. Use this tool to explore what’s possible in the RESTful API, test user-defined workflows, and more.

Key features
• Securely pre-authenticated: All API interactions occur within a secure and controlled platform environment, leveraging existing platform security features to ensure only authorized users can make API calls. No more third parties to rely on or worry about.
• Convenient web interface: Quickly interact with the Dataverse Web API without the need for extensive setup like software downloads or non-Microsoft account setup. You can access the tool from the Dataverse accelerator, a Microsoft app available in all new Dataverse environments and can be installed in any environment.
• Educational & user friendly: Presents the various actions and capabilities available in the Dataverse Web API, making it easy to quickly learn what’s possible and how to implement it. Implemented with adherence to Microsoft Coherence best practices + latest Fluent 2 alignment with first party maker portal standards.

Learn more

New Analysis Engine Now Generally Available

While you edit or play your app in Studio, a continuous analysis of app elements and their interactions is happening in the background. This lets Studio determine the types of all the variables and collections in your app, maintain a real time dependency graph of relationships between different expressions, and keep track of what columns your app uses from every data source. For example, this allows us to know that if you change an expression Set(x, 5) to Set(x, {Lorem: “Ipsum”}) that the type of x is now a record instead of a number, and any references in your app to x + 1 will therefore be marked as erroneous.

We’re thrilled to announce that the New Analysis Engine is now generally available (GA)! This major milestone is all thanks to the feedback from our early adopters and app makers during the experimental and preview stages.

Learn more

Call SQL Server procedures directly in Power Fx

We are excited to announce that calling SQL Server stored procedures in Power Fx is now generally available in all regions. You do not need to call a Power Automate Flow to use a stored procedure making development of Power Apps for SQL easier for authors and faster overall performance for both authors and end users. The ability to call stored procedures for the SQL connector directly is an extension to the existing tabular model and gives users access to tables, views, and stored procedures. This feature extends our ongoing support of SQL Server as a primary development target for Power Apps.

Learn more

Enhanced file upload experience for file attachments in Power Pages

We’re thrilled to announce that Microsoft Power Pages now support file uploads up to 10GB! But that’s not all—your end users will also enjoy an enhanced experience with these new capabilities.

Now you can upload files of sizes up to 10GB for form attachments with Azure Blob Storage integration. No more small file attachment size limits! Plus, you can also enjoy the improved file upload experience with features like file size and upload progress, delete and download files, and error messages. And if you need more customization, you can use our web API to access and manage your attachments stored in Azure.

Learn more

Learning and Documentation Updates

Videos

Demo: Build intelligent and scalable solutions with Power Apps and Power Platform

In this extensive demo you can see the most up-to-date ways to build enterprise-grade solutions with Power Apps and Power Platform. Understand how Copilot in Power Apps, intuitive Power Apps Studio experience, integration with developer tools, and collaborative features help developers accelerate their work.

Rapid Multi-Table App Development with Power Apps Copilot

In this video you’ll see how to simplify your business solutions with Power Apps Copilot. You’ll learn how to work with complex data models and create multi-table entity relationship diagrams based on your AI prompt and turn that into a fully functional business application with a Dataverse data structure and responsive, offline capable Power Apps canvas app front end.

Boost productivity with this Power Apps YAML hack

YAML is here in Power Apps and making it easier than ever to share and copy and paste code between Power Apps… but are you using it wisely? In this video you’ll learn what you can do with YAML copy/paste in Power Apps and what approaches you should consider when using YAML code snippets to boost your productivity and avoid maintenance nightmares.

Training paths and Labs

New Training Paths

Updated Training

• Create a machine ordering Power Apps canvas app – Online Workshop
• Integrate a Power Apps app with Power Automate – Online Workshop
• Create a Dataverse table for the machine ordering app – Online workshop
• Create a model-driven Power Apps app for machine ordering – Online Workshop
• Use Copilot in Power Apps

Documentation Updates

The post What’s new in Power Apps: July 2024 Feature Update appeared first on Microsoft Power Platform Blog.

Microsoft Power Platform enables developers of all kinds to build solutions for AI era

We live in an era of a technological shift, which is pushing development up the stack. Already today, 75% of knowledge workers use AI at work, while 60% of leaders worry their organization’s leadership lacks a plan and vision to implement AI.¹  

Organizations must rethink and modernize their software to stay relevant and competitive in the age of AI. Traditional software development still has its undeniable place in the dev stack, yet the developers and leaders must combine it with other approaches to get the most value out of limited resources. It’s hard to imagine a reality where traditional code wielding will be fast enough in covering the immense demand of users for AI-enabled software. 

This AI-era shift is another reason that motivates more and more organizations to turn to low-code. Microsoft Power Platform, which we consider the most comprehensive low-code platform, enables them to build applications, automations, pages, and intelligent copilots quickly and easily, with less code writing. Yet, when needed, developers can easily work with underlying code as well.  

The value that developers build brings more than 33 million users to Microsoft Power Platform every month² and also drives the 40% year-on-year growth for Power Apps users.³

Microsoft Power Platform and Power Apps allow for building of intelligent and scalable solutions that leverage the power of AI, data, and cloud on a unified platform that works seamlessly together and shares a common data model, AI engine, and governance framework. And that is what a true development platform for the age of AI needs. 

AI-powered development and authoring in Power Apps 

Microsoft Copilot is revolutionizing day-to-day business for organizations. Heavy Microsoft Teams users save eight hours a week thanks to Copilot meeting summaries and 66% of leaders surveyed in Microsoft’s Work Trend Index Report already say they wouldn’t hire someone without AI skills.  

AI-powered authoring is also one of the key differentiators of Microsoft Power Platform. Power Apps and Microsoft Power Platform have used AI for years—in 2019, we started with AI Builder and in 2021, we brought natural language to Microsoft Power Fx formulas functionality.  

Today, Microsoft Power Platform embedded with Copilot gives developers generative AI assistance through the whole app building process—from first idea through editing, until publishing. More than 330,000 organizations have already used Copilot in Microsoft Power Platform. 

With Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps, for example, you can start building an app by describing it. Copilot brings back tables for underlying data. You can continue to edit the tables, add new ones, or adjust the relationships between the data. Of course, you can do the same with the studio visual editor and seamlessly switch between point-and-click and natural language editing for maximum productivity.  

Once you land in the application view, you continue editing via Copilot chat back-and-forth exchange. You can also use natural language when crafting, fixing, and editing the Power Fx formulas. Copilot also helps you when you’re facing an unfamiliar formula in an app that someone else built—simply ask Copilot to explain it in the formula bar. 

Similar simplicity and synergy of natural language, visual editor, and code is present throughout Microsoft Power Platform products—Microsoft Power Pages, Microsoft Power Automate, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. 

Copilot drives real developer speed—in Power Apps, we see makers with Copilot build 60% faster and in Power Automate, their speed is doubled.⁴ It is not just a tool for beginners or non-developers, it is also a powerful productivity booster for professional developers who can use it to accelerate their development process, reduce errors, and learn best practices.  

Build solutions for enterprise scale

One of reasons why customers choose to build on Microsoft Power Platform and with Power Apps is the scale it enables. Built on Microsoft Cloud and Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power Platform gives organizations the tools to manage and secure apps, data, and environments across an entire enterprise scale with the ease, simplicity, and security you expect from Microsoft. 

Let’s look at Deutsche Bahn (DB) Group, for example. It operates the largest rail infrastructure in Europe, and it uses Microsoft Power Platform with all of is employees to accelerate innovation and leverage the Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence and Managed Environments to govern the large-scale adoption. Or Centrica, a leading energy services and solutions provider and the UK’s biggest retailer of zero-carbon electricity, now has more than 800 business solutions that support more than 15,000 users across the company. Accenture has all of its more than 700,000 employees enabled with premium licenses to drive the culture of innovation, and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the largest utility in the US, is using Microsoft Power Platform to save more than $75 million in operating costs and more than half a million hours of human effort every year. 

Microsoft Power Platform is built for scale. Customers like DB, Centrica, Accenture, PG&E, and many others enjoy the visibility, control, and ease of governing their solution ecosystem with Microsoft Power Platform. They are able to do what anyone would expect of an enterprise-ready application platform: 

• Create and manage multiple environments for lifecycle stages (development, testing, production). 
• Automatically route new developers to properly set up environments with rules and limitations. 
• Set up and apply policies and rules to control access, permissions, and resources for your environments, apps, and data. 
• Monitor and audit the usage, performance, and health of apps and environments within the Microsoft Power Platform admin center. 
• Use pipelines to automate and streamline application lifecycle management, including source control, testing, deployment, and updates. 

There’s much more that Power Apps as part of Microsoft Power Platform has to offer for administrators and developers when it comes to security and governance. Professional developers, citizen developers, business users, and administrators can all work together on the same platform and share their skills and expertise. Microsoft Power Platform also integrates with other Microsoft tools and platforms, such as Azure, Microsoft 365, Teams, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and GitHub to provide a seamless and consistent experience across the Microsoft stack. The recently announced integration with Azure DevOps Git repository also creates a smoother experience for developers and enables citizen developers to build alongside professional developers using the same processes and workflows all in one place. 

Get started today 

If you want to learn more about how Power Apps and Microsoft Power Platform help to build intelligent and scalable apps, you can: 

• Watch the demo video that showcases the end-to-end capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform. 
• Dive into the Microsoft Power Platform Well-Architected framework to understand the architecture and value proposition of Microsoft Power Platform.
• Get started with Power Apps Developer Plan. 

Sources:

¹AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part (microsoft.com)

²Microsoft Fiscal Year 2023 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call

³Microsoft Fiscal Year 2024 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call

⁴Power Apps is making it easier for developers to build with Microsoft Copilot and each other – Microsoft Power Platform Blog

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Summary: Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share what’s new in Power Apps. A summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. This month we’re excited to share collaboration updates for canvas, the release of the Copilot enabled ERD view and Catalog, key updates for security and a huge set of Learning and Documentation updates.

AI-powered Development

Build as a team with Canvas Coauthoring

Work with complex data models in an ERD view assisted by Copilot

To build meaningful business applications, data models consisting of multiple tables are almost always essential. We’re excited to announce the public preview of a brand-new data experience that simplifies working with complex data models in an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) view with the assistance of Copilot.

This innovative feature revolutionizes the way you work with data from various sources, including natural language inputs, Excel files, and SharePoint lists, all through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. What’s more, with Copilot by your side, it’s time to say goodbye to repetitive tasks. Copilot will handle the heavy lifting, like populating sample data and configuring table metadata, so you can focus on what matters most – creativity and strategy.

Learn more

Share and install components with catalog

Catalog enables makers to share and install re-usable components and templates that are customized for their orgs, by their orgs. This provides much more useful starting points than generic templates. 

Because the Catalog is built on top of our Solutions framework, you can also easily install catalog items from any environment in a tenant, update items so that makers use the most recent, authoritative version, and have catalog components accessible from authoring experiences, like Power Apps Studio. The catalog also comes with Enterprise level security. By default, catalog items must be approved by a delegated approver before they can be officially published and accessible by your org. There are also access controls for users to be able to submit, acquire, approve, or administer the catalog. In order to resubmit new versions, a maker needs to belong to the original publishing group. The catalog now enables you to manage your re-usable assets across your tenant in a secure way.

Learn more

Developer environment and plan now available in Sovereign clouds

We’re thrilled to announce that the Power Apps Developer Plan is now available in sovereign clouds starting with GCC and later this year will be available in GCCH and DOD.

Developer Plan is needed to get Developer Environments, which offer personalized spaces for makers to experiment, innovate, and build. They provide premium capabilities like Dataverse and premium connectors at no additional cost. These environments also adhere to your organization’s default Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy for security. Striking a balance between control and empowerment.

Learn more

Improved management of new and preview features for canvas apps

We’ve introduced a new category in canvas app settings to help you identify between newly released and preview features. We needed a new category that clearly indicates that features are GA and the long-term direction of the product, and yet still needed the flexibility of having a switch to control the feature. The switch allows us to slowly deploy the feature and watch for problems, and at the same time gives you control to enable the feature for your production workloads on your own schedule especially when a breaking change is involved.

Learn more

Enterprise-grade governance

Public preview for delete app users and view platform app users

Admins can take advantage of a modern and accessible UI to manage application users. Admins can do this by using the Application users page in the environment settings in the Power Platform admin center. Application users can be added, updated (or refreshed), and now inactivate application users can be deleted. Admins can also view the list of platform application users with their respective security role assigned.

Learn more

General availability of delete group team members when the associating Microsoft Entra group is deleted.

When a Microsoft Entra group is deleted from the Azure portal, all Dataverse group team members will be removed within 24 hours. Previously, if a group team member logged into Dataverse after the Microsoft Entra group was deleted, the team member was removed from the Dataverse group team. This left other team members in the Dataverse group team because they did not access the system. To eliminate any unauthorized data access issues, all team members are automatically removed from the group team upon deletion of its associated Microsoft Entra group.

Learn more

IP firewall support for TDS endpoint

Currently, the IP firewall is set up to support only the Dataverse OData endpoint, which means that IP-based access restrictions do not apply to the TDS endpoint. This implies that customers are unable to set up IP-based access controls for the TDS endpoint. However, the recent introduction of IP firewall capabilities for the TDS endpoint now allows customers to apply IP restrictions, enhancing the security of their TDS endpoint access.

Learn more

Learning and Documentation Updates

Videos

Evolving education framework with Power Platform

Join Scott Durow as he chats with Scott McKenzie from Fort Vermilion School District in Canada, who showcases an inspiring education framework app that he has developed giving teachers the ability to interact with millions of rows of student data stored in Dataverse, using a beautiful drag and drop user interface. The speed at which he has used Power Apps to transform their educational data management and student assessments system is truly inspiring.

YAML Essentials for the Power Platform

You may have heard about something called YAML and wondered what it is. In this beginner’s guide to YAML for Power Platform, I’ll give you an overview of what YAML is and explain the key concepts of YAML like data types and key-value pairs. I’ll also walk you through why you need to know about YAML as a Power Platform developer and how and where you can use it within the Power Platform including in Copilot Studio and Power Apps. By the end of the video, you’ll have a solid grasp of YAML and be ready to start using it in Power Apps and Copilot Studio.

Training paths and Labs

New Training Paths

• Create AI Builder grounded prompts with Dataverse data
• Get started with security concepts in Dataverse

Updated Training

• Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app
• Get started with Power Apps canvas apps
• Get started with security roles in Microsoft Dataverse
• Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app
• Create a relationship between tables in Microsoft Dataverse
• Create formulas to change behaviors in a Power Apps canvas app
• Publish, share, and maintain a canvas app

Documentation Updates

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Summary: Today, we are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated Canvas Coauthoring experience is entering Preview and is now available for the public worldwide, including sovereign clouds. Coauthoring will bring a new level of collaboration and productivity to Power Apps developers.

Accelerate collaboration and productivity  

Gone are the days of waiting for one person to finish their edits before you can jump in! Now, multiple makers can edit a canvas app simultaneously in the same editing session. Coauthors will be able to see their own and colleagues’ changes compiled into a running app in real-time. Similar to Office-style collaboration, you will be able to see your teammates’ real-time presence via adorners in the command bar, tree view, and most importantly, authoring canvas so you will know exactly where and what your colleagues are working on in the app.  

Coauthoring allows multiple makers to work on different parts of a canvas app at the same time, speeding up the development process. This is dramatically faster than traditional development cycles of merging and compiling local changes that the previous solo editor experience allowed. This is also a major improvement for current Power Apps development teams, removing the need to divide efforts or consolidate changes from multiple app instances. We believe this will accelerate your app development cycles and we can’t wait to hear the amount of time and effort Coauthoring has saved your fusion teams! 

This is the latest in our collaboration updates, including Commenting and Coauthoring for Model Driven apps to drive collaboration and increase productivity for Power Apps developers.

How to start working with other developers

During Preview, Canvas Coauthoring will be off-by-default. To enable this experience, makers will need to toggle on the Coauthoring setting in the app they would like to coauthor in by going to Settings > Updates > Preview.   

The inital preview includes some limitations, documented here. As we build towards General Availability, you can expect fewer limitations and we would love your feedback on which features we should include next in our Coauthoring journey.  

Get started now 

We can’t wait for you to try Canvas Coauthoring while in the Preview stage. Your feedback will be instrumental in shaping the future of this feature as we journey towards GA. Please visit our documentation to learn more details about this experience.  

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Trust

• Public Preview for cross-tenant license recognition Power Apps using Dataverse 
• Announcing preview for converting Owner team to Access team and reassigning team’s records 
• Announcing the General Availability of Environment Groups in Power Platform Admin Center   
• Introducing the General Availability of Environment Routing for Power Platform 
• Develop a tenant environment strategy to adopt Power Platform at scale 
• IP firewall support for TDS endpoint (preview) 
• Announcing Power Platform Well-Architected 

Maker Productivity

• Field selection in canvas apps by Copilot 
• Announcing preview for bypass business logic 
• Power Apps Canvas Modern Screen Templates (Wave 2) 

End user productivity

• Find mobile apps quickly with new app launching improvements.
• Major updates for modern controls and theming! 
• Screens get optimized for iOS and Android automatically 

Trust

Public Preview for cross-tenant license recognition Power Apps using Dataverse 

To reduce administrative overhead for multi-tenant organizations using Power Apps, we are super excited to announce public preview of cross tenant license recognition for canvas and model driven apps using Dataverse! When end-users access an app outside of their home tenant, Power Apps recognizes use rights the user has in both their home tenant or in the resource tenant (where the app is hosted). This is an enhancement to the cross tenant license recognition that already existed for canvas apps not using Dataverse.

Learn more at Share a canvas app with guest users (contains video) – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

Announcing preview for converting Owner team to Access team and reassigning team’s records 

You can now convert owner team to access team and reassign team’s records to another user/team in Power Platform admin center.  Previously you can only perform these functions in the legacy Web application. Now you can perform these functions in Power Platform admin center. Admins can perform all Dataverse team management in a centralized location under the Environment/Settings/Users + Permissions\Teams area.  

Learn more at Teams in Dataverse – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

Announcing the General Availability of Environment Groups in Power Platform Admin Center   

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Environment Groups in the Power Platform Admin Center, a feature that revolutionizes the way enterprises manage their digital ecosystems. This new capability allows administrators to organize and oversee multiple environments with unprecedented ease and clarity, marking a significant leap forward in governance and operational efficiency.

With Environment Groups, you can now categorize environments into logical clusters, streamlining the management process and enhancing security oversight. This feature is designed to support the growing complexity of enterprise-scale deployments, providing a robust framework for administrators to maintain order as the number of environments expands.

Embrace the power of structured governance with Environment Groups, and take the first step towards a more organized, secure, and scalable Power Platform experience. This update is a testament to our commitment to continuous innovation and our dedication to empowering organizations to achieve more with Microsoft Power Platform.

Learn more at Environment groups – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

Introducing the General Availability of Environment Routing for Power Platform 

We are excited to announce the general availability of Environment Routing in the Power Platform Admin Center. This innovative feature is set to transform the way organizations manage user access and workflows within the Power Platform ecosystem. Environment Routing enables administrators to direct users to the most appropriate environment based on predefined criteria, ensuring a seamless and efficient user experience. 

The introduction of Environment Routing marks a milestone in our journey towards providing a more intuitive and agile platform. It allows for smarter distribution of resources and more granular control over user access, which is essential for organizations operating at scale. This feature simplifies the user journey and enhances productivity by intelligently guiding users to the right environment, right when they need it. 

As we roll out Environment Routing, we invite you to explore its capabilities and integrate it into your governance strategy. This release underscores our commitment to delivering solutions that meet the complex needs of our customers, helping them to manage their Power Platform environments with greater ease and sophistication. 

Learn more at Environment routing – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

IP firewall support for TDS endpoint (preview) 

Currently, the IP firewall is set up to support only the Dataverse OData endpoint, which means that IP-based access restrictions do not apply to the TDS endpoint. This implies that customers are unable to set up IP-based access controls for the TDS endpoint. However, the recent introduction of IP firewall capabilities for the TDS endpoint now allows customers to apply IP restrictions, enhancing the security of their TDS endpoint access. 

Learn more at IP firewall in Power Platform environments – Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

Announcing Power Platform Well-Architected 

Power Platform Well-Architected is a set of best practices, architecture guidance, and review tools that help customers design and develop Power Platform workloads that are built to change and built to last.  

Learn more at Announcing Power Platform Well-Architected | Microsoft Power Apps

Maker Productivity

Field selection in canvas apps by Copilot 

Field suggestion by Copilot is a feature for Power Apps makers that helps you choose the best fields to display in your app when you are binding a data source to a control. Instead of using the default fields that Power Apps picks for you, you can see up to 10 suggestions from Copilot that are based on the data schema and the context of your app. You can review the suggestions and make adjustments as you need, saving you time and improving the quality of your app. 

Learn more at How to use field suggestions by Copilot in Power Apps Studio – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

Announcing preview for bypass business logic 

Bypass Business logic is useful for bulk data operations where you don’t want custom business logic to be applied, such as when you’re sure the data meets organizational requirements or when you plan to implement the logic by other means. We are introducing two optional parameters that developers can use during data operations 

1. BypassBusinessLogicExecution: This parameter allows you to bypass synchronous logic, asynchronous logic, or both. 
2. BypassBusinessLogicExecutionStepIds: With this parameter, you can pass a comma-separated list of plug-in step registrations to bypass only the specified plug-in steps. This provides more granular control over which business logic is bypassed. 

These new parameters target custom business logic applied to your organization, and when used, all custom plug-ins and workflows are disabled except for those that are part of the core Microsoft Dataverse system or part of a solution where Microsoft is the publisher. 

Learn more at New capabilities to bypass custom business logic (preview) – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

Power Apps Canvas Modern Screen Templates (Wave 2) 

The 2nd release of modern screen templates in Canvas studio will be available in North America starting on 6/17. This release includes the new “Header and form” and “Header and table” templates. Makers can insert these new screens using the same “+ New screen” entry point and connect to a data source within a few clicks! These templates contain only modern controls, are responsive by default, and can be inserted using copilot as well.  

Learn more at Add a screen to a canvas app and navigate between screens – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

End User Productivity

Find mobile apps quickly with new app launching improvements.

Power Apps mobile is now updated with features to help frontline workers find their apps quickly.

• Featured apps are surfaced in the bottom navigation bar so users can easily find admin-featured apps without having to search.
• Users can directly share apps with colleagues by swiping right on an app and selecting ‘Share’.
• A new bottom context menu enables users to use features like sharing, marking as startup, and pinning app to home.
• Swipe left on the app and select ‘Set startup’ to set an app to immediately open whenever Power Apps mobile is launched, saving time in getting to the right app

Learn more at Set an app as a startup app – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

Major updates for modern controls and theming! 

Modern controls are now much more customizable and have tons of new features available. Button control gets icon support and custom theming get new capabilities including classic compatibility. Three more controls are generally available now with more to follow soon. 

Learn more at May 2024 updates for modern controls and theming | Microsoft Power Apps

Screens get optimized for iOS and Android automatically 

When opting-in your app to be “Device optimized” (preview setting) your app gets better look and feel while gaining on performance and reliability on mobile devices. With this update, makers no longer need to enable individual screens. Power Apps will automatically activate screens where all controls are “Device optimized”. 

Learn more at Optimize for devices overview (preview) – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

We’ve also released new, and made updates to some of our documentation – see a summary before of some of the key updates:

For Admins

• Early release cycle environments
• Set address record settings 
• Delete users from an environment 
• Finance and operations storage capacity 
• Set up Application Insights with Power Automate 
• Export data to Application Insights 
• Use Power Platform Advisor 
• Combined effect of multiple data policies 
• Impact of data policies on apps and flows  
• View policies and scope 
• Data policies for Managed Environments 
• Manage data policies  
• Data policies 
• Tenant-level analytics  
• Create users 
• Manage the encryption key 
• Turn on copilots and generative AI features  
• View Power Platform administrative logs using auditing solutions in Microsoft Purview  
• Enable maker welcome content 
• Free up storage space  
• Manage your customer-managed encryption key in Power Platform 
• FAQ for Dataverse search 
• Manage feature settings  
• View and manage on-premises data gateways (preview)  
• Create and manage environments in the Power Platform admin center 
• Power Platform environments overview 
• Environment routing 
• Environment groups 
• Configure Dataverse search to improve search results and performance  
• Manage application users in the Power Platform admin center 
• View and manage on-premises data gateways 
• Use service admin roles to manage your tenant  
• Use Entra Privileged Identity Management in Power Platform admin center to manage high-privileged admin roles  
• Teams in Dataverse  
• Data storage and governance in Power Platform 
• Set up Virtual Network support for Power Platform 
• Managed Environments overview 
• IP firewall in Power Platform environments 

For Makers

• Get preview features early with the Dataverse accelerator (preview) 
• Monitor and troubleshoot Dataverse plug-in runs (preview) 
• Use field suggestions by Copilot 
• FAQs for field suggestions by Copilot 
• Create low-code plug-ins to use with a copilot (preview) 
• Microsoft Dataverse low-code plug-ins tips and known issues (preview) 
• Transition from legacy data generation services 
• Understand app functionality through code view (preview) 
• Use field suggestions by Copilot 
• FAQs for field suggestions by Copilot 
• Avatar modern control in Power Apps (preview) 
• FAQ about filtering, sorting, and searching canvas galleries with Copilot  
• Copilot in Power Apps overview 
• Share a canvas app with guest users 
• Known issues with custom pages in a model-driven app 
• Connect to Excel from Power Apps 
• Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse 
• View table data in Power BI Desktop 
• Embed a Power BI report in a model-driven app main form 
• Dataverse long term data retention FAQ 
• Use Microsoft SQL Server securely with Power Apps 
• Use modern themes in canvas apps (preview) 
• Common issues and resolutions for solution checker 
• Create Azure Key Vault for wrap in Power Apps 
• Set a data retention policy for a table 
• Dataverse long term data retention FAQ 
• Monitor and manage real-time workflow processes 
• System requirements, limits, and configuration values for Power Apps 
• Power Apps grid control 
• Use modern themes in canvas apps (preview) 
• Define calculated columns to automate calculations 
• Add copilot for app users in model-driven apps 
• Changing release channels for model-driven apps 
• Upgrade or update a solution 
• Behavior and format of the date and time column 
• How to build your first model-driven app with Dataverse – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Build a Power Apps component – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Connect to other data in a Power Apps canvas app – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Customize views and forms for model-driven apps – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Create a Dataverse table for the machine ordering app – Online workshop – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Discover and use Web APIs with Power Apps – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Understanding Low Code as a Traditional Developer – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Integrate a Power Apps app with Power Automate – Online Workshop – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Plan your app project like a pro – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Create tables in Microsoft Dataverse – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Write to a data source in an expense report app – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Create a model-driven Power Apps app for machine ordering – Online Workshop – Training | Microsoft Learn 
• Create a machine ordering Power Apps canvas app – Online Workshop – Training | Microsoft Learn 

For Users

• Filter, sort, and search galleries with Copilot (preview) 
• FAQ about filtering, sorting, and searching Power Apps canvas galleries with Copilot  
• Mobile offline capabilities and limitations 
• Optimize for devices (preview) 
• Optimize for devices overview (preview)  
• Explore data on a grid page 

For Developers

• SolutionPackager tool 
• Retrieve the list of rulesets 
• Retrieve the list of rules 
• Use the Power Apps checker web API 

Please continue sending us your feedback on features you would like to see in Power Apps. We hope that you enjoy the update!

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