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Power Apps 2025 release wave 1
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Creating offline profiles for Canvas mobile apps will be easier as makers will not need to toggle between Power Apps Studio and Power Platform admin center. All latest updates to control sync and improve user experience will be available for all app types.
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Makers will no longer need to go to the Power Platform admin center to create offline profiles for Canvas mobile apps. This feature will enable easy offline profile creation in the app development flow via the app's settings menu. All new features to control sync and improve user experience will be available to both model-driven and Canvas apps with this change.
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You can now select the columns of tables that are downloaded on mobile devices for offline use for Model driven apps (MDA). This feature is for anyone using MDA that need to work without internet connectivity. The fewer columns you select, the faster the app downloads the data on the device, saving you time.
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In the settings of your offline-enabled app in the maker portal, you can customize the offline profile for an optimized data loading experience for your users. For each table, you can select the columns that are required in the app:
- Use the suggested columns computed by the system.
- Manually select the columns.
On the main page for the offline profile, you can view the number of columns selected for download for each table.
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Public preview date moved to Jul 2024 | Jun 03, 2024 |
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Canvas app users on mobile devices will have more control over their offline and sync experience.
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Power Apps canvas mobile app users will get a new setting on the Device Status page to choose whether their data syncs on cellular networks and Wi-Fi connections, or only when connected to a Wi-Fi network.
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The refreshed header and navigation experience helps teams work efficiently by reducing time spent navigating pages, finding commands, and understanding page layouts. The new application shell minimizes distractions, shortens training time for new users, and accelerates common workflows, resulting in faster task completion and improved productivity across the organization.
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The refreshed header and navigation provide a more modern, intuitive, and efficient experience across the app shell, form page, and view page. These updates reduce visual clutter, improve access to important actions, and support a consistent look and feel across devices.
Key updates include:
- Modernized app header: Simplified app header layout with improved spacing and icons that align with modern design principles with increased brand coherence with Microsoft 365 apps.
- Streamlined sitemap: Decluttered sitemap with improved structure and readability to help you find what you need faster.
- Condensed page headers: Form and grid page headers now take up less vertical space, maximizing visible data and reducing the need to scroll.
This feature is automatically applied to all apps generated by the Plan Designer. It is available as an opt-in capability for existing apps.
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Application user productivity increases when developers bring intelligence into their apps and custom code controls using new Agent Xrm and Power App component framework APIs. These new API make it faster and easier for developers to create custom AI experiences for app users.
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New APIs allow the execution of a topic on the Microsoft Copilot Studio custom agent, which powers the model-driven app. These APIs have been incorporated into the Client API and the Power Apps component framework API. These APIs make it easier for developers to seamlessly bring custom AI intelligence into the flow of work for their business users. Developers can use these AI APIs as they build custom code through surfaces like web resources or PCF.
Both Client API and Power Apps component framework API have two new APIs:
- The
executeEvent
API uses the event name to call a specific Copilot Studio topic and passes app, page, and record context. This API also accepts additional context. - The
executePrompt
API uses the prompt for Copilot Studio to orchestrate the topic to call. This API also passes the same app, page, and record context.
These APIs leverage the custom agent outlined in Customize Copilot chat using Copilot Studio (preview).
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Application user productivity increases when makers bring intelligence into their model-driven apps using the new agent response component. This new component enables out-of-box intelligence without creating a custom Power App component framework component.
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The new agent response component allows the execution of a topic on the Microsoft Copilot Studio custom agent. This component can be added into a model-driven form and pass an event name to identify the topic.
The component supports displaying text in a markdown format or adaptive card. Use of an adaptive card enables media like videos and images.
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With Copilot, you can 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.
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You can easily find, filter, and sort your data using natural language grid filtering, which eliminates the need for complex, advanced filters by allowing you to describe what you're looking for.
For example, if you ask for cases that are high priority with an overdue follow-up by date, this filters your view to only show those relevant cases. Using natural language saves time as you no longer need to use column filters or advanced filters.
Supported features:
- Filtering of records
- Sorting
- Text search
Please note that this feature is currently in preview. It will be enhanced with each weekly release and can be turned on through the admin setting 'Natural Language Grid and View Search'.
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General availability date moved to Jun 2025 | Apr 14, 2025 |
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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.
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Are you tired of creating new tables, only to discover that they duplicate existing ones in your environment? Say hello to a smarter way of designing data models using the Copilot-assisted ERD designer. Now, instead of starting from scratch, you can leverage your existing tables to build more robust data models. Here’s how it works: Simply type out your requirements in natural language, and Copilot will craft a multi-table data model that incorporates both new and existing tables. Need to find relevant tables quickly? Copilot’s recommendations have you covered and will locate the right tables in seconds. Once you’ve assembled your tables, switch to the ERD view. There, you can review your new and existing tables side-by-side. While editing existing tables in the ERD view isn't fully supported yet, you can create lookups into the existing tables in a simple drag-and-drop interaction to define meaningful connections between tables.
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Public preview date moved to Jan 2025 General availability date moved to Mar 2025 |
Oct 31, 2024 |