17 upcoming features included in release plans
Previously, multiple makers were blocked from editing an app at the same time. With coauthoring makers can author and edit a canvas app in real time. This experience accelerates the app development process and saves time by allowing multiple makers to collaborate and build apps quickly. Additionally, this capability enhances debugging, code reviews, and training when multiple makers are required.
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Public preview date moved to Jul 2024 General availability date updated to Sep 2024 |
Jun 17, 2024 |
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.
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Public preview date moved to Jul 2024 |
Jun 03, 2024 |
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.
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Public preview date updated to Jun 2024 General availability date moved to Aug 2024 |
Jul 24, 2024 |
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.
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.
Agent builder in Power Apps will give makers a fast and convenient way to bring their apps into agentic era by building agents directly within Power Apps Studio using a streamlined Copilot Studio experience.
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.
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.
By supporting existing tables when visualizing 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.
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Public preview date moved to Dec 2024 General availability date moved to Feb 2025 |
Oct 31, 2024 |
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.
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Public preview date moved to Oct 2024 General availability date moved to Feb 2025 |
Nov 01, 2024 |
Adding custom document form-fill assistance in Copilot allows it to use organizational knowledge to help users complete forms faster and with more consistency.
Employees are in control of agents, overseeing their activity, which is documented online with their workflows.
Users can find, filter, and sort data more efficiently with Copilot by using natural language in views for model-driven apps.
Microsoft is increasing the strength of its authentication across the board, including for the Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps. Therefore, we are removing the option to authenticate with certificates.
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.
Environment routing offers makers a personal, safe space to build with Microsoft Dataverse without the fear of others accessing their apps or data.
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.