{"id":4896,"date":"2019-08-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/enhanced-functionality-in-unified-interface-grids\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:02:38","slug":"enhanced-functionality-in-unified-interface-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/enhanced-functionality-in-unified-interface-grids\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced functionality in Unified Interface grids"},"content":{"rendered":"
Unified Interface grids are more productive with several improvements in preview new and available with the 2019 wave 2 release.\u00a0 The improvements span increased density, updated styling, remembering state, standard browser hyperlinks, loading indicator and improved filtering.<\/p>\n
In addition two commonly requested fixes are coming soon for editable grid error messages and for browser open in new tab.<\/p>\n
Increased grid density and updated visuals<\/strong><\/p>\n All the grids in Unified Interface have had visual adjustments to increase the amount of data that can be seen.\u00a0 This brings us to parity with the latest classic web client experience.\u00a0 Both the read-only and editable tabular grids had visual updates bringing closer to familiar Microsoft grids and lists.<\/p>\n The main grid page now remembers the filter, sort, page state when navigating away and back.\u00a0 This includes quick find, column filtering, page number, etc.\u00a0 The navigation outside the page will always open with the initial state to allow easily returning to the normal state.<\/p>\n When grids are busy retrieving data, a new loading indicator is shown which prevents accidentally causing multiple data retrievals.\u00a0 This especially helps with longer running queries or higher latency networks by indicating the the app is still working.<\/p>\n The jump bar has been updated to use the first sorted field instead of only the primary field.\u00a0 If no sort change has been made, the jump bar uses the primary field.\u00a0 If a sort change has been made, then the sort is used.\u00a0 This brings the jump bar to parity with the classic web client.<\/p>\n The activity type field now has column filtering allowing the selection of one or more types.\u00a0 Also related entity fields like owner, status, and reason can be filtered.<\/p>\n To provide a better searching, sub grids were updated to use the quick find view when the view selector is visible or when the view selector is not visible apply the quick find to the current view. This behavior was done to match the classic web client sub grid quick find.<\/p>\n Hierarchy navigation<\/strong><\/p>\n The hierarchy icon is now available in the grid row in addition to the command bar.\u00a0 Clicking navigates to the hierarchy form.<\/p>\n A fix is gradually rolling out to support the grid primary field and lookup fields using the browser context menu for opening in a new tab or window.\u00a0 This will make it much easier to take your work to a new browser tab or window.\u00a0 This new capability is in addition to the existing Ctrl+Click shortcut.<\/p>\n Another fix gradually rolling out will display record save error messages in an editable grid.\u00a0 The messages can come from either business rules or plugins which prevent the save.\u00a0 Above the grid a message is displayed that one or more records didn’t save.\u00a0 An error icon in the record will have more specific error information in a tooltip.<\/p>\n Try out these feature in preview using Early opt in to 2019 release wave 2<\/a>\u00a0and give us feedback at PowerApps Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unified Interface grids are more productive with several improvements in preview new and available with the 2019 wave 2 release.\u00a0 The improvements span increased density, updated styling, remembering state, standard browser hyperlinks, loading indicator and improved filtering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_id":[],"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","_alt_title":"","ms-ems-related-posts":[],"footnotes":""},"audience":[3378],"content-type":[3424],"job-role":[],"product":[3473],"property":[],"topic":[3421],"coauthors":[2047],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","audience-it-professional","content-type-news","product-power-apps","topic-application-modernization"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nRemember grid state<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGrid loading indicator<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJump bar using sort field<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nImproved filtering<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nOpen in new tab or windows<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nError messages in editable grid<\/strong><\/p>\n
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