PowerApps

A summary of AI development, governance and end user updates as well as community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place.

Check out the latest updates for Power Apps; Code View, Power Fx Functions, Environment Group control over AI settings, and Visualize with Copilot! As well as a great set of learning and doc updates.

Building Canvas Apps in PowerApps presents a challenge. Microsoft has provided great built-in functions, but what if your App needed something other than the built-in functions? You would have to create workarounds—repeating formulas, juggling nested logic, and spending extra time managing it all. It worked, but it wasn’t ideal. Now, Microsoft is upgrading the process

Welcome to the Power Apps update! See what's new in Power Apps. A summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout Jan.

Data workspace, the ERD data experience with Copilot is now generally available in 9 languages supporting solution and model-driven app.

Microsoft Power Apps announces preview of ability to customize in-app chat with Copilot Studio.

More Power Fx formula reuse! User defined functions can now call behavior functions with side effects and be chained. User defined types enable passing records and tables in and out of user defined functions and can type JSON and untyped objects. And enhanced component properties move to preview.

The plan designer is now available for preview for makers worldwide! The plan designer can help you transform a simple business requirement into a complete, end-to-end low-code solution in minutes!

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!

Power Apps introduces the new 'Create a Formula' feature, making it easier than ever to build and edit Power Fx formulas. Plus, now you can explain partial formulas too!

At Microsoft Ignite 2024, Power Apps is unveiling powerful new ways to modernize business applications at scale in the era of AI. Learn more.

Microsoft is excited to announce a new set of capabilities that enable you to build autonomous agents. Learn more.

Already, 60 percent of the Fortune 500 are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to accelerate business results and empower their teams. With Copilot supporting sales associates, Lumen Technologies projects $50 million dollars in savings annually. Honeywell(1) equates productivity gains to adding 187 full-time employees and Finastra is reducing creative production time from seven months to seven...

Find out what's new in Dynamics 365 (including Sales, Service, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, Business Central, and Commerce apps) and Power Platform (including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents)

Microsoft launches 2024 release wave 2 for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and role-based Microsoft Copilot offerings. Learn more.

Power Apps announces ability to co-create a solution plan with Copilot in Power Apps and improved intelligent features for data input and management.

Introducing the new ERD-view data experience that streamlines the management of complex data models with Copilot assistance.

Data workspace, the ERD-view data experience with Copilot assistance is now generally available in 9 languages from within solutions and ready to create model-driven apps.

The low-code development capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform make it possible to build and deploy modern applications faster and more cost-effectively than ever before. Whether you’re a citizen developer tinkering around the edges or a professional developer working on a complex customization, you can drive digital transformation intuitively, quickly, and at a lower cost than with traditional approaches. This white paper explores the benefits, strategies, and best practices of modernizing applications with Power Platform. It provides insights and guidance on how Power Platform can help you ensure the success of application modernization efforts as part of an organization’s digital transformation.

So, there may be six more weeks of Winter – thanks, Phil. And February may only have 28 days this go around the sun… but it was busy, no matter how long or short the groundhog shadows. February 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Topics (GA), SharePoint web part toolbox updates, ...

Get faster app load and edit times for canvas power apps when you switch to new analysis engine. Complex apps should see a significant performance boost.

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.

<p>Fusion development is getting easier. Now, developers can view and use source code in a readable YAML + Power Fx format. Code view in Power Apps Studio allows a greater level of transparency for developers as they work with canvas apps as well as the ability to copy and paste code between your preferred code editor—enabling small changes in code, reuse across your apps, and sharing code with other developers and the community.</p>

<p>Do you want to build modern and accessible apps with Power Apps? Then you will love our latest updates on modern controls and theming capabilities. You can now customize the size, style, and alignment of checkboxes, radio buttons, badges, input controls, text, and buttons. You can also choose from different appearance options and change the border radius of these controls. Plus, we are adding more styling properties and new modern controls soon. Learn more about these updates and how to use them in your apps below. </p>

<p>AI models are improving rapidly, and customers need effective tools to integrate AI into their business solutions that provide precise, reliable and consistent information, and are easy to deploy. Today we are happy to announce our latest improvements to help makers integrate AI into their low-code apps and solutions. Now available as Public Preview in Microsoft Copilot Studio, data grounding with Dataverse tables allows makers to create powerful AI prompts that are grounded with their enterprise data while enforcing real time enterprise security. Additionally, we are excited to announce that low-code plugins now support five new AI Power Fx functions, and share  how Capgemini New Zealand, a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, is leveraging these new capabilities to create value for their clients and solve business problems faster than ever before.</p>

This month, we are excited to announce some new and exciting updates to Copilot; Copilot for consumers now includes support for Apps. Updates to Copilot geography support, usage and billing updates and abuse monitoring changes.

Uncover a host of updates and enhancements to our new card visual reference labels. This February 2024 update brings many great features including improved alignment of elements, new placement options for reference labels, a new tabular style, a transparency slider for the divider, new per-card customization, and enhanced layout control.

Welcome to November and a new version of the on-premises data gateway! We are excited to announce a new feature for allowlisting which tenants can register an on-premises data gateway on a machine. Read the post to find out more.

Last year at Build 2020, we debuted the Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio – extensions that streamlined the app development process within the tools developers already knew and loved. Now, a year later at Build 2021, we’re continuing that momentum by sharing a major up...

Here’s our September release of the on-premises data gateway! As always, stay up to date for the latest functionality.