Generative pages are an AI-driven feature in app development, particularly within model-driven apps. They allow users to create pages by simply describing their needs in natural language, which the system then translates into structured layouts and code
Side Panes in Model Driven Apps have been around for some time now, and we have used them for showing Entity Lists, Entity Records and web resources. In addition to the standard types that we can display in the side panes we can also display custom pages and PCF controls
Generative Pages have been in Private Preview for a few months now and there is a lot of excitement on this feature. If you have not heard about this feature yet, Generative Pages leverage AI to simplify the creation of pages in model-driven apps.
On February 18th, 2025 Microsoft announced the public preview of the data exploration agent for Model driven apps. This new agent provides the ability to find records using complex filters using Copilot and Natural language to describe what data you are looking for.
This has been a feature that has been requested for as long as I can remember using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the Power Platform, and finally it is here.
In a recent project a needed to create a PCF control, to display a notification within the form. The MessageBar Fluent UI v9 component provided the functionality that we were looking for, so we decided to go ahead and take advantage of that. The PCF Builder extension for Visual Studio …
There are many times that we want to copy contents from documents that we are working on into our Dataverse application. Normally what we would be doing is copy a single element at a time from our document and paste it into our app.
Focused views, which was originally introduced as part of the Dynamics 365 Sales app allows viewing and managing records and their associated activities on a single page. It provides the ability to not navigate back and forth between screens.
Microsoft provides new and updated features for model-driven apps on a regular basis. Until recently, those feature updates were rolled out in two release waves called the semi-annual release waves, which is the default setting for all of the existing apps and environments.
As part of the 2024 Power Platform Release Wave 1, Microsoft has released (currently in Public Preview) the ability to create secured fields and mask either all or parts of the field based on regular expressions. This would allow us to show parts of the secured fields (such as the last 4 digits of a social security number) on the form without having to deal with custom scripts and not having the ability to export the full data of those fields.
