13 upcoming features included in release plans
Power Apps 2025 release wave 1
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Makers can clean up their list of data sources and consolidate all of them into one. The new Manage feature for stored procedure data sources allows authors to add or removed stored procedures and keep the same data source name. So, all stored procedures are consolidated under one data source name.
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Re-editing data sources with stored procedures will provide faster and cleaner development. When a maker creates data sources for an application, each editing session that selects stored procedures creates a new data source. This can make it difficult to keep track of which stored procedures are in each data source if multiple editing sessions create several data sources. This feature allows the author to simply "re-edit' an existing data source with stored procedures to add or remove stored procedures. As a result, all stored procedures can be managed under a single data source.
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Makers can streamline their apps and eliminate unnecessary complexity by directly referencing external tenants through the Entra Auth connection for SQL Server.
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Large organizations often have multiple tenants for various reasons, such as legal requirements (by country or region) or security needs (data partitioning). Previously, the only way to reference a SQL database in a different tenant was through a gateway. Now, a tenant ID field is available for Entra connections in Power Apps. By default, this tenant ID matches the author's tenant, but the makers can override it to specify a different tenant. End users of the Power App with the SQL Server connection will need authentication credentials for the other tenant.
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Makers will be able to use SQL Server datatypes with Decimal. SQL Decimal provides greater accuracy for fractional decimal values, which is crucial for business transactions.
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In Power Apps, floating point values are the default data type for internal values. This means that any data flowing into Power Apps is internally represented as a float. However, floating point values can sometimes lead to precision issues, especially when dealing with fractional decimal values.
The new Decimal support in Power Apps addresses this issue by providing greater internal decimal accuracy. This ensures that decimal values are preserved more accurately when getting and putting data into SQL Server. With Decimal support, you can manage business transactions and other scenarios requiring high precision with greater confidence.
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You can now select the columns of tables that are downloaded on mobile devices for offline use. This feature is for anyone using mobile apps 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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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.
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Copilot now helps you fill out forms quickly using images, files, and emails. Model-driven app users will be able to add a file (including images) or email for Copilot to generate form field suggestions, saving valuable time on a tedious task. The form filling experience has been improved based on your feedback, giving you more control over suggestions.
Admins can manage this capability through Power Platform admin center.
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Public preview date moved to Feb 2025 General availability date updated to To be announced |
Jan 22, 2025 |
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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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Users can select the smart paste button or use the keyboard shortcut to receive suggestions for fields. The suggestions appear inline in their model-driven app's form, based on text they've copied. The user can choose to accept or ignore the suggestions. This new, smart paste option makes it easier and faster to enter data in forms.
Admins can manage this capability through Power Platform admin center.
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Public preview date moved to Oct 2024 General availability date moved to Feb 2025 |
Nov 01, 2024 |
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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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There can be a lot of legwork involved in detailing solutions to a business problem before you start to create apps, flows, and other objects that will solve your users' needs. Copilot is well versed in common solution architecture patterns and can take advantage of other sources such as images to add to the context of the problem. Copilot can help you create user roles, define role-specific requirements, and suggest data schema, apps, and other objects that would come together as a solution to the proposed business problem. You can collaborate with Copilot, iterating over user roles, requirements, schema, and objects to ensure the final solution is a great start for the business.
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Creating solutions to address business needs involves more than just developing an app. Solutions are a collection of objects from across the Power Platform that store data, provide end-user apps, and automate workflows. Regardless of the technology used to solve a business problem, the first step to success is defining your solution architecture to support various user roles and their requirements. This ensures you can build a solution that benefits your business. Copilot can now assist with detailing the scenario and requirement definitions, such as user roles, user requirements, data schemas to support data, and creating an overall solution architecture through proposed objects.
- Scenario and requirement definition: Begin with a description of your business problem and provide additional context like process diagrams, data models, or even screenshots of legacy apps. Copilot will use this input to draft user roles and requirements for the solution.
- Data modelling: Once aligned on requirements, Power Apps will propose a data model to support the solution and allow the maker to explore and make updates through a visual entity relationship diagram.
- Solution architecture: Copilot will recommend the types of apps and automation that will fit the requirements. In the initial release of this functionality, the recommendations will include canvas and model-driven apps, as well as cloud flows in Power Automate.
During the early phase of the public preview, these Copilot skills are off by default. To access these features, simply turn on the Try the new Power Apps experience toggle on the Power Apps home page. This will allow you to create and manage your plans.
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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 |
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AI-generated visualizations by Copilot help you understand patterns, trends, and relationships in your data. You can easily turn tabular data into a chart right in context. Plus, you can personalize visualization to turn data into insights without needing any other analytical tool. This means you save time and gain valuable insights faster, making your data work for you.
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You can simply select a button to turn tabular data, along with all the filters, into a chart. Drill into the data by interacting with the chart, the grid column filters, or both. Personalize the chart in place by changing the chart type, adjusting the legends, or any combination of the two. You can also expand the chart or copy it to the clipboard for easy sharing with your team.
This feature is released in preview and will be improved with each weekly release.
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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.
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The server for Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps, known as the Application Object Server (AOS), will strengthen security by removing the ability to authenticate with certificates. This means we will no longer provide the ability in the Regression suite automation tool (RSAT) to provide a certificate. The user must use a username and password, using an Entra policy, to avoid multi-factor authentication.
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Public preview date moved to Mar 2025 | Jan 21, 2025 |
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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.
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Expanded support for Test Engine tests using YAML and Power FX. Test Engine will have enhanced canvas app testing capabilities, introduce model-driven app testing, and more robust authentication options.
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Public preview date moved to Mar 2025 General availability date updated to To be announced |
Jan 13, 2025 |
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With this feature, you can view the underlying code to understand app functionality and manage source control. It’s perfect for developers who need to align with healthy and robust Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices. By using this feature, you streamline your development process, improve code quality, and support your app’s growth.
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You can now export a canvas app as a binary file with the extension .msapp. You can use Power Platform CLI to convert a .msapp file into source code files. With this feature, you no longer need to use the Power Platform CLI to convert the .msapp files. You can view the source code for the canvas app in an updated, human readable YAML format. Each screen has a separate file.
View the source code of your canvas app directly in Power Apps Studio or use external code editors.
This new capability helps you to:
- Store the files in a code repository.
- Automate generation of a canvas app.
- Improve the generative canvas app models.
- Refactor canvas apps without using the designer.
- Integrate natively with Git for Power Platform.
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Public preview date moved to Aug 2024 General availability date moved to Aug 2024 |
Aug 01, 2024 |