New smart paste makes filling forms as easy as copy & paste

Miti Joshi — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:25:44 +0000

Have you ever found yourself frustrated by the tedious task of filling out forms, wishing you could just pull the information directly from an email, document, or note you already have? We are thrilled to introduce the new smart paste capability in Copilot form fill assistance for model-driven apps. Smart paste is designed to make form-filling as simple as copy & paste. Now you can effortlessly fill forms based on the information you already have, saving you time and reducing errors. Get ready to experience a smarter, faster, and more intuitive way to handle forms. The announcements below begin rolling out to environments worldwide starting today.

Introducing smart paste

Smart paste is the latest capability of Copilot form fill assistance for model-driven apps, designed to make the time-consuming and frustrating task of form filling easier. Imagine this: you have some text in an email, document, or note that you need to enter into a form. Instead of manually typing it all in, you can now simply copy the text to your clipboard. Without selecting any specific field, just click the smart paste button or use the standard paste shortcut (CTRL+V or CMD+V). Copilot will reason over the form and the pasted text to suggested what text could be used to fill specific fields, and provides suggestions inline in the form. You can review and accept the suggestions that work for you—as always, nothing gets saved until you confirm. Ignoring suggestions will automatically discard it, and we are also introducing a new capability to clear all suggestions in the form.

And if you prefer the traditional way, you can still paste directly into a specific field by clicking on it first and then pasting.

You can use smart paste in your model-driven apps by updating the following two settings in Power Platform admin center, under Settings > Product > Features > AI form fill assistance section:

In the Enable this feature for field, make sure that All users immediately is selected.
Set Enable smart paste (Preview) to On.

Discover the suggestion source using new citations

We are introducing a new capability that adds even more transparency to Copilot’s suggestions. With the new citations, you can now learn more about the source of the suggestions provided by Copilot. These citations clearly identify the source, for example “Records you have updated recently” or “Clipboard”, giving you more clarity and confidence in the suggestions you receive.

Form fill assistance now available in quick create forms

Form fill assistance, including the new smart paste capability, is now available in quick create forms as well. This means you can enjoy the same time-saving benefits across even more of your forms.

Expansion to 21 languages

Form fill assistance in model-driven apps is rolling out in the following 21 languages in addition to English (US):

Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish

We want to hear from you

Learn more about this feature in the documentation. We look forward to you trying out these capabilities in your model-driven apps and sharing your feedback through the form fill assistance survey in your model-driven app.