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Building modern apps

You can now select the columns of tables that are downloaded on mobile devices for offline use. The fewer columns you select, the faster the app downloads the data on the device for usage without connectivity.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : Apr 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Jul 2024
Jun 03, 2024
Building modern apps

Today, there's no way to view the code of a canvas App in Power Apps Studio. With this feature, makers can use code view to see their app's underlying code to better understand the app's functionality. They can also copy the code to share and paste code to create new controls.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 2, 2024
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date updated to Jun 2024
General availability date moved to Aug 2024
Jul 24, 2024
Building modern apps

The Power Platform Environment Settings app provides a modern, performant, accessible, secure, and extensible settings management experience. This app is intended to provide a single, unified experience for system administrators to create and manage settings for their applications.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 20, 2024
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Building modern apps

Device-optimized screens increase the performance and reliability of your canvas apps on iOS and Android devices. Some controls also offer improved gesture support and a user experience that matches closer to the design language of the operating system.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 12, 2023
General Availability : Feb 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Adding an AI record summary will allow users to access important information easily, thereby making them more productive by saving time and effort.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 05, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Makers can make their apps more intelligent and relevant by customizing Copilot capabilities of their app. To start with, they can make the Copilot chat experience richer for their apps by adding external knowledge sources and custom topics to the Copilot available for each model-driven app.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 05, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

The new capabilities and experience of Copilot’s form fill assistance feature make it faster and easier for users to fill forms based on copied text content, images, files, and emails.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Draft with Copilot currently helps premium end users of canvas apps to refine their text in multiline text input boxes. With this upcoming addition to the feature, users can now write prompts to generate content for their input. This will save users time they spent editing, rewriting, and coming up with well-written content. Instead, they can jot down a few ideas and let Copilot do the rest.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Administrators are responsible for managing numerous resources within their organizations. It can be challenging for them to make informed decisions about these resources without a thorough understanding of their functions. By creating AI-generated descriptions for apps, we help administrators provide the necessary information to scale up and make informed decisions on a larger scale. This feature is enabled for all apps within Managed Environments.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 05, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Aug 22, 2023
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history


General availability date moved to Jan 2025
Dec 04, 2024
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

By supporting existing tables when visualizing a complex data model, the entity relationship diagram (ERD) data experience will unblock makers to build actual meaningful business solutions on top of their existing data assets. With Copilot assistance, makers can easily find existing tables relevant to their data modeling requirements and build more robust business applications. With the ERD visualization of tables and relationships, makers can review new and existing tables side-by-side and define meaningful connections between them with a simple drag and drop interaction.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : Feb 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Jan 2025 General availability date moved to Feb 2025
Oct 31, 2024
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

The new, smart paste option in Copilot’s form fill assistance feature makes it faster and easier for users to fill forms based on text content from any source. Users can simply copy the content, smart paste by selecting a button or using the keyboard shortcut, and receive inline suggestions within the form, based on the copied content.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Oct 20, 2024
General Availability : Feb 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Oct 2024 General availability date moved to Feb 2025
Nov 01, 2024
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Adding custom document form-fill assistance in Copilot allows it to use organizational knowledge to help users complete forms faster and with more consistency.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Feb 2025
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Employees are in control of agents, overseeing their activity, which is documented online with their workflows.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

AI-generated visualizations by Copilot help end users understand patterns, trends, and relationships in their data. End users can turn tabular data into a chart easily and in context. The visualization can be further personalized to turn data into insights without needing any other analytical tool.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : Apr 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Copilot enables you to find, filter, and sort data more efficiently using natural language in views for model-driven apps, significantly reducing the time previously spent on advanced filtering and enhancing productivity.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 15, 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025

Included in:
Power Apps
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Enable enterprise scale

Microsoft is increasing the strength of its authentication across the board, including Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps. Therefore, we are removing the option to authenticate with certificates.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Enable enterprise scale

Improved testing options for Power Apps. This capability supports the handling of larger-scale Power Apps without regressions, resulting in more robust applications with fewer bugs.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Enable enterprise scale

Today, makers struggle to understand the operational health of their Power Apps once apps are in production. Monitor provides makers with visibility to app performance data and also gives recommendations for ways to improve App performance.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 25, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Dec 2024
Nov 25, 2024
Enable enterprise scale

Environment routing offers makers a personal, safe space to build with Microsoft Dataverse without the fear of others accessing their apps or data.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 30, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Apps
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Change history
Enable enterprise scale

This feature will allow Power Apps built over SQL using Entra to move smoothly from Dev to Test to Prod. Customers will not need to drop the SQL Entra data sources in their app when they move it to a new environment.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Enable enterprise scale

There is a big productivity increase to be harvested for X++ developers. Dev Div have published numbers of more than 40% of published C# code was written by Copilot, and we would like to provide similar help to X++ developers. One of the other benefits is that It helps shortening the ramp up time for new developers, which has always been a problem for the business. We're aiming for the same kind of flow as canvas apps and Dataverse have today where natural language can be used to describe certain workflows.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


General availability date moved to Mar 2025
Oct 30, 2024