Whether you are new to developing Canvas Apps or are experienced, the Power Apps Creator Kit from the PowerCAT team has been a big talk in the community. The toolkit provides a list of pre-built controls and components that can be used to design and develop your Canvas Apps and Custom Pages.
In today’s keynote session of Microsoft Build, Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications and Platform announced the preview of Microsoft Power Pages, the fifth product in the Microsoft Power Platform family. Power Pages is not entirely a new product but the evolution of Power Apps Portals. For many …
This last week, on Thursday, May 19th, Microsoft Announced the General Availability of the new Power Apps modern app designer. With this new designer builders will be able to build model-driven apps with Dataverse views, forms and custom pages with simplicity. The new modern app designer will replace the classic designer and is now in full feature parity with it. Let’s look at the different areas of the app designer.
Collaboration seems to have been on Microsoft’s roadmap for some time now, and with the updates to the Power Platform in the 2022 Wave 1 Release Plan, there are a few enhancements in this collaboration space for Model Driven apps. In this post, I will go over some of these enhancements and demonstrate how this functionality is used and displayed in your dataverse environment.
The Advanced Find features in the Microsoft Dynamics and the Power Platform has gone back since the inception of the product, and not many changes have been done throughout the years. We have seen some of the plans in the last release with table level filtering, but with the upcoming release of the Power Platform 2022 Release Wave 1, the Advanced Find is getting a makeover.
In the last Power Platform Release Wave, 2021 Wave 2, Microsoft released some enhancements to the grid control that is displayed in views and subgrids. In the upcoming release, 2022 Wave 1, Microsoft has replaced this grid control with a new read-only that will be part of this release.
In the last few months, I have been working on a migration project for a customer from a legacy system to Dataverse, and one of the functionalities included an embedded Canvas app containing multiple screens and quite a bit of functionality. The main issue that was encountered is that within some geographical regions it was taking a longer time than expected to load the app.
Late November last year, Microsoft released an experimental feature in Canvas apps to allow co-authoring, so that multiple users can work on the app at the same time. Currently, prior to this feature, if a user is working in Canvas Studio, any other user that will try to login to Canvas Studio will be blocked stating that it is locked by the previous user.
In the last blog post, I demonstrated how to use the Microsoft Multiselect Lookup control (similar to the Activity Party control), which was released as part of an update to Field Services to add new values to a backend many to many relationship. In this post, I am going to extend this further to show how to add and remove items from the multiselect control, and have them get updated in the relationship.
Earlier last year (September timeframe), Microsoft released a Multiselect Lookup control (similar to the Activity Party control) as part of an update to Field Services. The control does not seem to be available across the entire spectrum yet, but if you have a Field Services License or an Enterprise license, you should be able to use this control across your Dataverse environment.
