It's that time of the year again- Microsoft has come out with their Wave 1 2024 plan, giving us a list of features planned for release between April to September 2024. These are some of my highlights from the release plan across Power Platform.
Quickly turn your Excel spreadsheets into Dataverse tables and Power Apps
Did you know that you can transform your Excel spreadsheets into fully functional, responsive canvas apps in just a few steps? In Power Apps, you can simply upload your spreadsheet, your data will be turned into a Dataverse table, and your app will be created.
6 Power Platform copilot and AI features you can try out today
Microsoft has been announcing a range of new AI features available across Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 tools. Copilot for Power Platform is an AI assistant set to transform how you build your apps, bots and flows. It lets you use natural language to describe what you wish to build, then AI will create it for you. Here's what is available to try today.
Create a free developer environment for Power Platform
A developer environment gives you a space to try out Power Platform tools and improve your skills. It’s free, doesn’t expire, and you can access and try premium features such as AI Builder, Dataverse, premium connectors, build model driven apps and Power Pages. By default, other users won’t have access to what you have built in this environment, so it’s a good option for learning and testing things out.
Run Power Automate flows from your canvas apps
If you are building a Power App you might want to automate some tasks or processes within your app- such as sending an email notification, creating a document or even updating a database record based on an input from the app. How can you do that without leaving your app and switching to another tool? The answer is Power Automate within the App Studio. You can build and manage your flows right from your canvas app, without navigating away.
Get started with the Employee Ideas app in Microsoft Teams
Are you tired of collecting employee feedback through hundreds of paper forms or clunky processes that are difficult to manage? Building a Power App is one way that you can streamline this process. However, did you know that there's already an app available in Microsoft Teams that can help you with this? The Employee Ideas app is not only ready use, but it can also be customised to fit your unique needs. In this post, we'll explore how the Teams Employee Ideas app can make the feedback collection process a breeze, and how you can tailor it to best suit your requirements.
Embed a Power App in your Power BI reports
With Power Apps visual in Power BI, you can give your users the ability to interact with a canvas app directly from a Power BI report page. In this post, we'll look at how to add the Power Apps visual to a report, create a new app based on the report data, create app screens with additional information, then see how it works within the report.
New Power Platform features: Wave 1 2023 release wave
Features across Power Platform and Dynamics 365 have been announced as part of Microsoft's Wave 1 2023 release. These are features expected to be released from April 2023 to September 2023. This post picks out some of my highlights from the Power Platform release plan for a quick look at what we can expect over the next few months.
Add Power BI report or dashboard in a Power App (model-driven app system dashboard)
A system dashboard in a model-driven app provides users an area to access reports that have been built into the app, or are embedded from Power BI. If you've build a report or dashboard in Power BI, you can make it accessible to your app users by first adding it to your app solution then configuring the app system dashboards.
Add Power BI tiles in a Power App (canvas app)
The Power BI tile control in Power Apps allows you to embed Power BI content within your Power App.