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.
What are Power App Cards?
Cards are embeddable, no/low code mini-apps you can create in Power Apps. They are based on Adaptive Cards, but are built with the no-code designer and Power Fx formula language used across Power Apps & other Power Platform tools. Screenshot of Power Apps Cards designer You can get started building cards at https://make.powerapps.com/. The Microsoft … Continue reading What are Power App Cards?
Microsoft Ignite 2022: Power Platform & Microsoft Teams announcement highlights
At last week's Microsoft Ignite conference, there were some big announcements made for new features coming across Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, AI and more. In this post I'll highlight some of the announcements across Power Platform and Microsoft Teams that were personal favourites of mine.
How to export and import your solutions (such as saving what you’ve built during App in a Day)
If you've attended training such as App in a Day, and you don't want to lose what you've built, here's how you can save your work. You can export your solution even if you haven't finished building it yet. For example, if your trial account is about to expire and you want to keep working … Continue reading How to export and import your solutions (such as saving what you’ve built during App in a Day)
Create a new trial environment to use Power Platform tools
If you've signed up to use Power Apps, you may need to create a new environment. Keep in mind that most people will not be able to do this in their normal work accounts, it is something that has likely been restricted to admins only. I've put this together for people who may be participating in Power Platform training using a trial tenant and are required to create an environment.
Sign up for a free trial to try out Microsoft 365 + Power Platform tools
With a free trial of Microsoft 365 you can use the Power Platform and Microsoft 365 tools without interfering with your normal work account. Useful for creating demos or for training.
New Power Platform features: picks from the Wave 2 2022 release wave
Microsoft has published the Wave 2 2022 release wave, which gives us a list of new features across Power Platform and Dynamics 365 we can look forward to. I'm highlighting my 5 top picks for Power Platform here.
How can I export an app, bot or flow I’ve created in Microsoft Teams?
As with solutions built in a full Dataverse environment (i.e. outside of Teams) you can save and export a .zip file of your Teams-based creations. This can be done either via the Power Apps Teams app or the Power Automate website.