Canvas offline apps are easy. Here’s why.

Are you using LoadData/SaveData to cache and sync data for offline use? Do you need to support users in the field who work in low connectivity areas? Now, with the built-in Dataverse offline for canvas, build your app with standard Power Fx formulas enable the app for offline in the Power Apps Studio, and you’re done! (See Why use offline for canvas apps instead of LoadData/SaveData? | Microsoft Learn)

The first time a user open an app, all required data is downloaded to the device. If the app is configured to auto-generate an offline profile, the system identifies and syncs all data required to make the app run. We recommend this default mode for simple apps with small to medium-sized data sets. If the app needs to access large data sets with complex relationships, you can optimize the app’s performance by creating a custom offline profile (See Set up mobile offline for canvas apps  – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn).

Canvas offline apps work in an “offline first” approach

Once data is downloaded, the offline enabled canvas app works in an offline first approach. The app reads and writes data to a local store on the device regardless of network availability. Local and server-side changes are regularly synchronized when the network is available.

By enabling offline, you can also improve the user experience when the app is connected to the network, especially when the user creates or updates rows in Dataverse. Reading and writing offline data access is usually much faster than waiting for online calls over a mobile network, so your user experience will be responsive even while the app is synchronizing data in the background.

Out of the box support for Dataverse files and images

In an offline-enabled canvas app, you can choose between downloading files and images on view or on sync. When files and images are configured to be downloaded:

• On view: the content is downloaded when the user opens a file or when an image is presented to the user.
• On sync: files and images are downloaded during the offline sync when the device is connected.

With these two options, you can decide to optimize for offline availability or disk usage depending on your business needs. See Configure files and images in offline canvas apps  – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn.

Tips for creating great offline-enabled apps

We are introducing two new Power Fx functions: Connection.Sync to retrieve network and sync statuses and ShowHostInfo to display a more detailed device status page. See Set up mobile offline for canvas apps – Power Apps | Microsoft Learn.

We also recommend following this offline best practices to ensure a faster user experience.

Limitations and Availability

• Non-Dataverse connectors such as SharePoint are not supported in offline-enabled apps.
• The canvas app must be in a solution

Power Apps developers can turn on the canvas offline feature in the Power Apps Studio by navigating to the settings dialog of the canvas app (Settings > General ) and toggling “Can be used offline”.

For more details, see the documentation.

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Celebrating Successes

The Power Up Program’s vision was simple yet powerful: to equip individuals worldwide with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in the era of digital transformation. And the response was nothing short of phenomenal. Participants, hailing from diverse backgrounds, united under the common goal of mastering low-code skills, bridging the gap between ambition and proficiency.

• 25,000+ Participants: From every corner of the globe, individuals took the plunge into the world of low-code development, driven by a shared enthusiasm for learning and growth.
• 180+ Countries Represented: The program transcended borders, cultures, and languages, fostering a truly global community of learners united by their eagerness to empower themselves.
• 12-Week Upskilling Journey: The self-serve curriculum guided participants through a transformative 12-week experience, honing their Power Platform skills and unleashing their potential.

One of the most inspiring aspects of the Power Up Program’s inaugural year was witnessing the success stories that emerged from the community. From career transitions to groundbreaking projects, the impact of newfound skills reverberated globally, validating the program’s mission to empower individuals to create their paths in the digital landscape. Watch some Power Up Program graduates share their success stories.

Paving the Way Forward

As the Power Up Program embarks on its second year, the excitement continues to build. We’re thrilled to introduce a groundbreaking feature that amplifies the learning experience – Group Learning! The program continues to evolve for learners and volunteers.

In year two, we will offer more interactive and visual learning including the opportunity to attend Microsoft partner-led App in a Day workshops. In addition, participants can now join as teams, fostering a sense of camaraderie and collaboration.

Introducing Group Learning

Colleagues, friends and family now can challenge each other on a learning journey to become low-code app makers. To get started, a group leader applies and creates a team name. Once accepted, the group leader will select their preferred start date and send invitations to group members.

Throughout the learning journey, group members can monitor each other’s advancement on the leaderboard, fostering healthy competition and collective growth.

Recognizing our volunteers

We are pleased to recognize 13 Power Up champs as our first recipients of the Star Champ badge who displayed exemplary commitment and dedication in our first year. Let’s give a shoutout to the first round of Star Champs: Ahmed Salih, Akah Mandela Munab, Asia Platt, Barend Buizer, Christina Wheeler, Davy De Roeck, Drew Poggeman, Neil Hambly, Pavel Vecer, Remi Dyon, Rishona Elijah, Sheryl Netley, and Zeeshan Saeed.

This badge will be awarded to champs who have contributed more than 15 hours over the last 6 months across various volunteering categories such as supporting Power Up learners during live Q&A sessions, responding to learner questions on discussions boards and grading final app challenge submissions. We are excited for champs to have the opportunity to earn this badge that recognizes their commitment and support for the Power Up learners and to inspire many others to volunteer.

As you make your New Year’s resolutions, add building an application with Microsoft Power Platform to the list and join the Power Up Program as an individual, a group or as a volunteer!

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With model-driven apps offline for makers experience in general availability, it is now easier than before to set up an app to work offline. After enabling your model-driven apps for offline, people in your organization can work seamlessly without worrying about connectivity!

You can also choose the offline mode for your mobile apps. We are happy to announce the General Availability of the Offline-first mode that is optimized to improve the device performance and to work better in low-network conditions than “classic offline” mode.

Enable your app for offline from the app designer

In just a few clicks, you, the maker, can enable offline for your mobile users right in the maker portal. You can easily enable the app for offline to all users having access to the app (Default), or to a selected list of Users or Group of users (This option requires admin right).

Once enabled for offline, you will have to associate and offline profile to the app. The offline profile is the configuration of the data to download on the device. If you pick “New profile with current app data”, you will be able to quickly create a new offline profile precomputed by the system from the data configured in your app. You can also select an existing offline profile.

You can update the offline profile anytime, and add filters or any optimization as recommended in the guidelines.

Offline first

With the mobile “offline first” experience enabled for your model-driven apps, your users will see better device performance, a more responsive app, and lower battery usage as apps make fewer connections to the server.

With “Offline first”, data presented in your app is consistent regardless of the network connectivity. There is no toggle anymore for users to switch from offline to online mode, so users will not forget to sync their changes back to the server. The app will do it automatically. (learn more about the difference between “offline first” and “classic offline”)

We are looking forward to your feedback

Your feedback will help us continue to build on and improve the capabilities of this feature. Share your feedback in comments or on our Power Apps community forum post.

For more details, see the documentation.

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Over the past few months, we have invested heavily in the Human Resources templates that enables modern CHRO or VP of Human Resources to recruit, manage, reward, and retain their top-performing talent in our constantly changing business environment more easily and efficiently. Productivity of a company’s human capital has never been more important, due to tight labor markets and persistent inflation. According to the 2023 Work trend Index report, feeling uninspired is one of the top obstacles to employee productivity. Enterprises must empower their employees to do their best work in hybrid and mobile environments. Human Resources must be re-imagined and extended to meet the new challenges of a global, diverse and hybrid workforce.

Employee Kudos template

Employee Kudos is one of the most used Power Apps solutions internally at Microsoft and was made publicly available with the initial launch of Enterprise templates back in June and can be downloaded from here. Now every customer can leverage the best practices from Microsoft in their own company. Employee Kudos template improves the employee experience by providing an easy and friendly way to engage in peer-to-peer praise. Learn more.

Employee Awards and Recognition template

The Awards and Recognition template streamlines and automates the process of acknowledging outstanding efforts in an organization. By facilitating an engaging and efficient awards system, this template aims to encourage a positive work culture that recognizes and appreciates exceptional contributions. You can download the template from here. Learn more about the template here.

Employee Onboarding Buddy template

Data from the 2022 Work Trend Report suggests that Onboarding buddies help new hires expand their networks and become more productive n their new role. Onboarding Buddy template enables an organization to automate a program whereby employees sign up as “onboarding buddies” so that they can be paired with new hires or transfers into a group to help them onboard and ramp up successfully. Learn more about the template here. Download the template from here.

We will continue to invest in more solutions such as Onboarding Hub which will be released in the upcoming months to make Hire to Retire process easy and seamless for you with Power Platform. We are also investing in Power for IT to help transform your core IT processes. The first solution for Power for IT, IT Procurement & Asset Management will be released soon. Stay tuned!

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The shortcut for this blog post is https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformResources.

I am NEW, help me get started

• Building Tech Intensity with Microsoft Power Platform – Satya Nadella
• The future of App Development – Charles Lamanna
• Overview sites – Power Platform | Power Apps | Power Automate | Power Pages | Power BI | Power Virtual Agents | Dataverse | Security and Governance | Connectors
• Announcements – Low-code announcements at Build | Latest Power Apps features
• Customer stories – 100+ stories | 75+ videos | 25+ hero profiles | Pro-dev stories | Automation stories
• Create your first – Canvas App | Model-driven app | Flow | Dashboard | Chatbot
• Training labs – Power Platform “In a Day” trainings | App in a Day | Automation in a Day | Power Pages in a Day | Power Virtual Agents in a Day | Training modules on Learn
• Take the free Power Platform course on Udacity – https://aka.ms/UdacityPower, #Udacity
• Browse documentation – Power Apps | Power Automate | Power Pages | Power Virtual Agents | Power BI | Dataverse | Connectors
• Sign-in and explore samples and templates – Power Apps | Power Automate | Power Virtual Agents
• Power Platform Admin Center – documentation | portal
• Microsoft Mechanics videos – Power Platform playlist 
• YouTube channels – Power Platform | Power Apps | Power Automate | Power BI | Power Virtual Agents | Power Platform on Microsoft Mechanics
• Community – Community Home | User groups
• Get expert help from partners – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/partners/
• Licensing – Understanding Power Platform licensing article | licensing guide | FAQ
• Resources curated by the community each week – Power Platform Weekly

I have SOME EXPERIENCE

• *new* Power Platform Adoption – homepage | workbook | best practices | maturity model 
• Power Platform Guidance Center – documentation | architecture video series
• 2021 updates – April 2021 launch event | Demo by Charles Lamanna
• 2021 release waves: Wave 2 (Oct 2021 – Apr 2022) | Wave 1 (Apr 2021 – Sep 2021)
• Latest shipped features – Weekly release notes
• Conference sessions – Ignite 2021 | Power Platform Community Conference | Ignite 2020
• Intermediate / advanced architecture series – Power CAT Live
• Useful Power Apps reference – Controls and properties | Formulas
• Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) gallery – community gallery
• Additional labs – Power Platform labs and challenges | Power Platform labs
• Power Automate how-to videos – webinars and videos gallery
• Power Automate guidance – Enterprise automation techniques for RPA | Planning a Power Automate project
• Real-world usage patterns – architecture patterns | scenario patterns | index of stories by scenario category

I am interested in ADMINISTRATION & GOVERNANCE

• Power Platform Admin Center – video | documentation
• Power Platform Governance – whitepaper | Admin in a Day lab | blog posts
• Establishing a Center of Excellence – CoE Starter Kit | videos | adoption maturity model
• Power Platform Governance Enhancements – Feb 2021 – blog post
• Power Platform Guidance Center: documentation | architecture video series
• Conference presentations: Ignite 2020 | MBAS 2019 |
• Build a customized Admin experience using the Power Apps admin connectors – blog post with sample admin dashboard | admin connector documentation
• Strategies for improving app discoverability in your enterprise – part 1 | part 2 | part 3
• Security and certifications – Microsoft Trust Center
• Manage Power Apps licenses in your organization – documentation | FAQ | licensing guide | planning and managing licensing and capacity (Ignite 2019)
• Pricing and licensing – Summary | Licensing documentation
• Licensing Terms & SLA information of Microsoft Power Apps and other online Services – Online Services
• Microsoft’s approach to deploying Power Apps for all employees – blog post |  Pat Dunn’s presentation at Biz Apps Summit

Resources for PRO DEVELOPERS and FUSION TEAMS

• Microsoft Power Platform is the best way for teams to build together – blog post with resources
• Pro-dev features and learning paths – webinar | learning path | ebook | BUILD session
• New Power Apps developer plan – get started | documentation
• Microsoft Mechanics episode on pro-dev adoption of Power Platform – blog | video
• Low code application development on Azure – landing page | YouTube video playlist | tours
• Power Apps and Microsoft Azure better together – landing page | TEI report | ROI calculator
• POWERful Devs virtual conference and ongoing videos – video series
• Additional pro-dev topics:
  • Azure APIM Connector on the Power Platform – blog post
  • GitHub actions for Power Platform – blog post
  • Power Apps for enterprise developers – documentation
  • Register and use custom connections – documentation
  • Build and certify your own connector – blog post | documentation
  • Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) – documentation | community gallery
  • Calling Azure AD protected Azure Functions using a Custom Connector – blog post | documentation
  • Register and use custom connectors in Power Apps 

I am a MICROSOFT PARTNER

• Start at https://powerapps.microsoft.com/partners/
• Join the Power Apps Partner Program
• Become a Recognized Solution Architect
• You can also sign-up to deliver trainings for our customers
• View Power Platform partner stories

Show me REAL WORLD CUSTOMER STORIES

• The curated stories list is now being maintained at – https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformStories
• Additional links – customer story videos | pro-dev stories | automation stories | hero profiles

How do I GET INVOLVED and STAY CONNECTED

• Ways to collaborate with the Power Apps team – blog post
• Stay updated – product team blog | webinars
• Community sites – main community page | forums | community blog | best practices & app gallery
• Get support – blog post | support page
• Submit an idea

COPILOT AND GENERATIVE AI

CONNECTORS AND DATA INTEGRATION

• Power Platform connectors – documentation | Power Automate connectors list
• Data integrator – documentation
• Power Query – documentation
• On-premises data gateway – documentation
• Common Data Model – documentation and printable CDM poster
• Microsoft Dataverse and Power BI – documentation
• Introduction to the Microsoft Common Data Model – Ignite 2019 talk

I use SHAREPOINT, how can I integrate with Power Apps

• SharePoint welcomes Power Apps and Flow
• Integrate Power Apps with SharePoint Online
• The Power Platform for SharePoint people (Ignite 2019)
• Power Apps, the successor to InfoPath | Modernize InfoPath forms with Power Apps
• Custom list forms in SharePoint with Power Apps – blog post | demo | documentation
• Reinvent business processes in SharePoint – blog post
• Pro tips for transitioning from InfoPath to Power Apps – part 1 | part 2
• Embed Power Apps in SharePoint pages – blog post
• SharePoint Online document libraries supported in Canvas apps – blog post | documentation

I use ACCESS WEB APPS, how can I leverage Power Apps

• Introduction to Microsoft Power Apps for Access web apps developers
• Access Services in SharePoint Roadmap

LABS, CERTIFICATIONS, COURSES & BOOKS

• Summary list of labs and training content – https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformLabs
• Microsoft certifications – Power Platform Exams & Certifications | PL-100 | PL-200 | PL-400 | PL-900 |
• Pluralsight – Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals
• LinkedIn Learning – Power Platform classes
• Udemy – Power Platform classes | Power Apps | Power Automate | Power BI
• Power Platform Academy by Rory Neary – free courses
•  Books:
  • Pro Microsoft Power Platform (published by Apress)
  • Learn Microsoft Power Apps (by Matthew Weston)

BEST PRACTICES & COMMON USE CASES

• Community content – community app and component gallery | working with data | design discussion
• UX/UI design tips – video | UX patterns | managing fonts and colors
• Performance best practices: documentation | optimization techniques | performance considerations | more tips
• Power Apps accessibility guidelines – blog post
• Customize list forms in SharePoint with Power Apps – blog post | demo | documentation
• Access web apps migration to Power Apps – whitepaper
• Approval workflows – blog post |documentation | guided learning
• Using the on-premises gateway – overview | installation & FAQ | proxy configuration
• Build an offline app – blog post
• Creating dialogs in Power Apps – blog post | video
• Display a map using the Image control – step-by-step walkthrough | video
• Send an email from your Power Apps app – video
• Connect to Microsoft Cognitive Services – video
• Implement role-based security – blog post
• Build a customized interactive calendar – step-by-step guide
• Notify user that new data is available – step-by-step guide | push notifications feature
• Deep link into an app using URL parameters – step-by-step guide
• Audit scenario solution – blog post from community member

PRODUCT PAGES

Power Apps

• Website | Blog | Documentation | Community | Suggest Ideas | Webinars
• Product updates
• Guided Learning | YouTube playlist
• Licensing / Pricing
• Support – known issues | view/report issues | create a support ticket

Power Automate

• Website | Blog | Documentation | Community | Suggest Ideas | Webinars
• Product updates
• Guided Learning | YouTube Playlist
• Licensing / Pricing
• Support

Copilot Studio

• Website | Blog | Documentation | Community | Suggest Ideas 
• Licensing / Pricing

Power BI

• Website | Blog | Documentation | Community 
• Product updates
• Guided Learning | YouTube Playlist
• Licensing / Pricing

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Today, we’re helping accelerate that trend with the public preview release of new enterprise application templates for Power Platform — a family of end-to-end solutions that simplify and automate core business processes for a range of common departmental use cases. We’re starting with pre-built solutions for Procurement and Human Resources, and will expand to additional departmental use cases in the coming year.

These new templates are not training tools for beginners — they are designed to be accelerators for rapid transformation in production. They connect to enterprise systems like SAP and Microsoft Dataverse, showcase great user experiences, and are directly based on apps that are already successfully deployed inside Microsoft and other global customers. You can use these applications with existing Power Platform premium licenses, and they can be customized, configured and extended by your own technical team or system integrator partners.

Finance Templates

The first Power Platform application template is the SAP Procurement template, which improves the procurement process by simplifying vendor management, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders. It consists of procurement-focused Power Apps, corresponding Power Automate cloud flows, and the new Power Platform SAP Connector announced in December 2022.

This SAP Procurement template dramatically simplifies fundamental and time-intensive procurement processes (like adding vendors or creating a PO) for any customer running SAP. SAP is a complex ERP (financial system of record) often requiring significant training and expertise to complete basic tasks like creating a new vendor. Beginning all the way upstream at vendor management and ultimately finishing downstream with vendor payments, the SAP Procurement template enable customers to accelerate the PR/PO process, drive down days payable outstanding, reduce manual invoice reconciliations, and capture early payment discounts. By using a user-friendly, one-screen, modern Power App UI, Power Platform customers who also use the SAP ERP will reduce the time required to complete these procurement activities and increase employee satisfaction.

We will release additional capabilities for the SAP Procurement template including goods receipt, vendor invoices and vendor payments apps in the near future. Over time, we will add templates for additional finance and procurement processes. Learn more.

Human Resources Templates

The productivity of a company’s human capital has never been more important, due to tight labor markets and persistent inflation. Enterprises must empower their employees to do their best work in hybrid and mobile environments. Human Resources must be re-imagined and extended to meet the new challenges of a global, diverse and hybrid workforce. The Power Platform templates for Human Resources enable the modern CHRO or VP of Human Resources to recruit, manage, reward, and retain their top-performing talent in our constantly changing business environment.

This initial release is composed of three initial application templates for Human Resources: the Employee Kudos template which enables individual teammates to celebrate co-workers for their contributions, the Employee Awards & Recognitions template which enables employees & managers to nominate individuals for special awards, and the Employee Onboarding template which partners new employees with current employees and mentors to enable new employees to onboard and ramp as quickly as possible. The Employee Kudos template is available today. Awards & Recognitions and Employee Onboarding templates will be available in the near future.

Employee Kudos is one of the most used Power Apps solutions internally at Microsoft. Now every customer can leverage the best practices from Microsoft in their own company. We will continue to release more relevant templates to improve the employee experiences over the course of 2023 for the entire Hire-to-Retire process. Learn more.

What’s Next

The Power Platform will revolutionize the enterprise through employee empowerment with AI, rapid low code application development, and automation of time-intensive processes. We will be releasing additional application templates for other areas of the enterprise over time, including Sales, Marketing, IT, and Supply Chain.

How to Get Started

Customers and Systems Integration Partners can get started by accessing the template offers on Microsoft AppSource:

• Finance templates
  • SAP Procurement template (https://aka.ms/AccessSAPProcurementTemplate)
• HR templates
  • Employee Kudos template (https://aka.ms/AccessEmployeeKudosTemplate)
  • Employee Awards & Recognition template (coming soon)
  • Employee Onboarding template (coming soon)

Learn more about the templates and how to get started here. If you have any questions regarding the templates, please let us know in the comments below.

Helpful Links

• Documentation – https://aka.ms/LearnTemplatesForPowerPlatform
• Microsoft AppSource – https://appsource.microsoft.com/

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Offline is critical in today’s world, but difficult.

Mobility is crucial in our modern world. It is natural to access your data anytime and anywhere. You don’t want to have to think about it! But, to create an offline app for canvas today is hard. Makers have to implement complex logic within the app, download data (many tables with a large variety of sizes) on the device, synchronize and merge the data when you make changes on your device, decide whether the app should work against the local content or the server, and track network availability – which can be challenging in spotty connectivity areas.

With this new canvas offline feature, the built-in offline engine does all of the hard work for you!

Canvas offline apps are easy. Here’s why.

Offline with Power Apps Canvas is easy. First, enable your tables for offline. Then, enable the App for offline and you’re on your way. Here is what happens in the background: an offline enabled Power App first downloads all of the data it needs from the server. A customizable offline profile defines what data is downloaded to the device. Once your data is downloaded, your offline enabled canvas app works in an offline first approach – the app reads and writes data to a local store on the device whether or not the network is available. It doesn’t have to be connected to work. Then, your changes and changes on the server are regularly synchronized for you automatically in the background when the network is available.

Limitations and Availability

• Dataverse Files and Images are not yet supported for this feature. We know how important it is for users and we are doing our best to enable it as soon as possible.
• Non-Dataverse connectors like Sharepoint are not supported in offline.

Power Apps developers can turn on the canvas offline feature in the Power Apps Studio by navigating to list of experimental features in settings dialog of the canvas app (Settings > Upcoming Features > Experimental) and toggling “Dataverse offline”.

The feature will roll out country by country from May 15th, 2023 to May 30th, 2023 in https://make.powerapps.com. It requires the latest version of the Power Apps mobile applications in the iOS, Android and Windows stores. Check out the prerequisites for more details.

We are looking forward to your feedback

Your feedback will help us make this new app even better. Share your feedback on our Power Apps forum.

You can also reach us by filling out this form and we’ll get back to you right away. We are particularly interested to understand how you are using offline in your apps.

For more details, see the documentation.

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1. Modern – A focused and less cluttered design that supports richer interaction states and elevation, provides a higher usability baseline to build your low code apps from. These controls are based on Microsoft’s own Fluent design system which powers majority of Microsoft experiences across all products like Microsoft Teams, Word and more.

2. Fast – Built for performance. We are making critical investments for this new suite to ensure your apps are fast and fluid. 
   
3. Accessible – These controls are WCAG 2.1 compliant with accessibility built in by default. We will provide a comprehensive set of properties for our developers to configure. 

4. Theming – Designed with theming in mind. Although not part of the initial launch, support for theming and per control styling is coming to the preview soon. 

Here is a look at side by side comparison for the same app on new vs classic controls:

The preview will be updated frequently over the next few months. The goal is to provide a full suite of modern controls that are easy to style and fast. There are 13 new controls in the initial release. 

We are far from done though.  There are several awesome capabilities that we are going to be bringing over the coming weeks: 

1. Per control styling – color and font support that will work with the new theming system. 

2. New theming system – We are introducing a new theming system that will allow you to customize the look and feel of apps with greater ease and flexibility.  

3. More controls – Lots more controls are on the way. There will be more atomic elements like toggle, breadcrumb, and multi-select dropdown, as well as updated form, gallery, and new composed controls. 

4. Improved authoring & controls experience – We are making enhancements to the authoring experience, to make it much quicker and easier to build apps.

How to enable this feature?

Power Apps developers can turn on modern controls feature in Power Apps Studio by navigating to list of preview features in settings dialog.

After turning the feature on, developers can view the list of controls on insert pane in left panel.

To learn more about modern controls, please see – Overview of modern controls. 

If you have any questions or feedback about the model controls for canvas apps, please reach out to us. You can provide feedback to improve controls within Power Apps Studio or use community forum to discuss with us and more community members. 

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Power Apps is excited to share that users can now request a license from their admin – directly in product! If a user is trying to run an app that requires a license, they will see the option to ‘Request a license’, in addition to the buy a license or start a trial option (if eligible). Once a request is submitted, a confirmation message will appear at the top of the page saying the request was successfully sent to their admin.

A user can also request a license, during an active trial, using the banner at the top which will notify users of how many days they have remaining in the trial.

Once an admin as acted on a request, a confirmation email will be sent notifying users of the status of their request. Learn more here.

Managing license requests for Admins

An admin will be notified of all incoming licensing requests on the Microsoft 365 Home page.

Following the steps to completion, an admin will be able to approve or reject multiple requests at once and include a message for their users.

An admin can also continue using their organizations’ custom license request process and configure the proper settings in Microsoft 365 Admin center.

To learn more about how to manage all license requests and settings, please see the following documentation

We look forward to hearing your feedback!

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To use this feature, Managed Environments must be enabled. The settings panel for Managed Environments gives you the ability to customize Markdown content and define a URL for the welcome content:

Once a welcome message is set up, makers will see a modal pop up in the maker portal when they enter an environment where this feature is enabled.

Makers can choose to not see this again, and will be able to access it on the Learn page at any time.

Any updates admins make to the content will override the “do not see this again” checkbox and show the updated modal to makers. Because of this behavior, admins can also use the maker welcome content as a “push notification” system. Organizations can use it to provide updated information on policies, prompts to fill out surveys, or information on popular apps. The possibilities are endless!

We’d like to hear from you

To learn more about the maker welcome content, see our documentation here. If you have any feedback to share, please visit our community forum. We’d love to hear how you’re using the maker welcome content!

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