Common Data Service polymorphic lookups are now available from canvas apps. You can now: Access, set, and filter on the Owner field of any record. Access and set the Company Name field (a Customer data type) of the Contacts entity. Access and set the Regarding field of activity entities such as Faxes, Phone Calls, Email Messages, … Continue reading “Owner, Customer, and Regarding for canvas apps”

We are very pleased to announce our latest standards whitepaper – PowerApps canvas app accessibility guidelines! Why did we write this white paper? PowerApps embodies the idea of “democratization of development”—anyone in your organization can quickly and easily create a powerful app and share it broadly. But the app maker has an ethical, and sometimes legal, obligation to support “democratization of usage” … Continue reading “PowerApps Canvas App Accessibility Guidelines”

One of the things we care most about on the PowerApps team is delivering reliable and performant experiences. We know that it doesn’t matter how easy-to-use or powerful a product is if it isn’t speedy and bug free. In order to drive the performance our customers have grown to expect, we’ve invested in a new … Continue reading “The PowerApps portal is now faster to load”

Flows make it easy to automate workflows that request approvals and act on responses to them. Currently, flow runs time-out after 30 days, causing any pending steps (like approvals) to time-out as well. While this isn’t a problem for most approvals, there are cases where responding to an approval ca...

While creating apps using the Common Data Service, makers select an entity as the data source and bind it with data controls. This allows them to add fields in the selected data source to a gallery, data table, or form. This is good for fields that are already present in the data source. However, if … Continue reading “Add new fields while creating your canvas app”

Once again the team had incredibly busy month releasing over 13 new features or enhancements for making your application creation experience even more productive and fun. If you don’t want to wait for this blog post you can always can view a roll up of the upcoming features here: http://aka.ms/businessappsreleasenotes and more fine grained PowerApps … Continue reading “April 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps”

Have you ever wondered why the Expression box in Microsoft Flow is so small? It is because Flow is a low code product and low code means that we don’t need much code. Often a one liner can do…

Recently some new options have been added to create new flows. On top of the already existing Create from template option there are now options to create an Automated, Instant or Scheduled Flow. Wh…

The new form designer now supports authoring quick create and quick view forms. All the beneficial features of the new form designer such as WYSIWYG preview, enhanced fields pane, quick-access property pane, tree view and more now extend to quick create and quick view form authoring to help enable a rich and productive experience.

In one of my latest projects we have used PowerApps to create a location aware selection of stores – and I wanted to share my experience about how to do this. So, I found an open data set about attrac…

- Bill Baer, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Search @williambaer Introducing Microsoft Search Today, we’re announcing general availability of Microsoft Search, an intelligent, enterprise search experience from Microsoft that applies the artificial intelligence technology (AI) from Bing and deep ...

Inspired by Flow in a day, and due to demand for it in my company, I've put together content for Forms and Flow in a few hours and thought I'd share it here in case it's useful for others as well. Here's the content: Exercise 1: Create Form Task 1: Login on Microsoft Forms website and c...

<p>As we open Microsoft Build 2019 this week, the Power Platform is a hot topic for software developers. That’s right: low-code has arrived as an important new capability in any professional dev…

In this post, Joao Lucindo, a Microsoft TSP hailing from Brazil shows you how to develop a Microsoft Flow Custom Connector to get audit logs from Office 365. This solution is based on the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet.

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<p>Today we have reached a key milestone, and we are happy to announce the general availability of Solution Checker. Since December, when the PowerApps team rolled out the Solution Ch…

Beginning today, we’re starting a pilot program to send regular emails to notify makers like yourself about the usage of their top performing app. This will give regular insights into how an app is performing without having to actively look at its analytics. In this first email, we’ll let you know how many people used … Continue reading “Get updates about your app right in your inbox”

Last week I posted an article on my personal blog about the infinite loop and it caused quite a bit of discussion in the community. Apparently many

Social media is brimming with several great blogs, videos, documentation and information that I want to keep up on. And there isn’t enough time in a day to watch or read all the awesome conte…

Employees at Microsoft are now able to use Bing to search internal company resources, log time off, and complete other common tasks without leaving the search engine, thanks to Microsoft Core Services Engineering’s implementation of Microsoft Search in Bing with PowerApps integration. Microsoft Search in Bing boosts productivity by making it easier for employees to find information and manage day-to-day company tasks in one place—and it’s simple to deploy, since it’s an Office 365 add-in.

We continue to release connectors for Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow taking the number of connectors available to over 250. As the number grows, we would like to empower the wider community to maintain these connectors. We now open source our connectors on GitHub. Our ability to open source connectors is made possible through two new exciting features: the Microsoft Power Platform Connectors CLI can be used to download, create, or update any custom connector and template-based policies can be used to modify the runtime behaviors for custom connectors.

I usually wait a week or two to weigh in on new announcements from Microsoft. I like to let the noise die down a little, and see how others are responding to the news. But I am way too excited abou…

Makers can now easily add and move fields and controls, to the exact location they want, directly on the form preview, and instantly see how the form will appear to end-users. Two new features added to the new form designer: drag-drop and cut-paste are making this possible. Combined with the live WYSIWYG preview of the form, these new features provide a big productivity boost when authoring forms.

When using PowerApps, we get a fair amount of settings to change our text controls but sometimes, we need that little extra touch. One of those options is the font family. We get 14 font styles that are suitable for most design ideas. We might get more in the future but now, I’m going to show you how to include any desired font that might be required for any of your projects. First approach, the HTML control The first idea that you might have tried is to use the powerful HTML control that is included in PowerApps. This control lets you format it’s contents using plain HTML code, but it has ...

<p>We launched the public preview of the Data Gateway administration feature on the Power platform admin center in January. This feature provides tenant admins with visibility into all On-premis…

Intro In this blog post we will explore a method for color control that not only aims to make app creation and color maintenance simpler but can also be easily extended to give users personalization options. We will start by setting up a basic color scheme data structure, use collections to pull t...

Today we have reached an important milestone for Microsoft PowerApps: we are announcing public preview for PowerApps component framework for model-driven apps. This is a significant step towards empowering 3rd party developers to build compelling visual components in PowerApps and Dynamics 365 using the same framework which the Microsoft team uses. Professional developers can now … Continue reading “The PowerApps component framework and the PowerApps CLI is now available for public preview”

There are several discussions regarding the use of CDS connector VS the Dynamics connector in the Power Platform. Recently I have been updating my knowledge a lot on PowerApps, PowerBI and Flow. Th…

<p>A quick note on two bite size features. Have you ever wondered why the Navigate function requires the second argument? For example: Navigate( Screen2, None ) Why not just default …