On February 18th, 2025 Microsoft announced the public preview of the data exploration agent for Model driven apps. This new agent provides the ability to find records using complex filters using Copilot and Natural language to describe what data you are looking for.
A few days ago Microsoft announced the creation and use of function in Microsoft Dataverse (currently in preview). Functions use Power Fx to execute a set of commands within Dataverse that run on the server-side.
This has been a feature that has been requested for as long as I can remember using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the Power Platform, and finally it is here.
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server Environment variables which will be able to support your Power Apps deployments as part of an ALM Process
There are many times that we want to copy contents from documents that we are working on into our Dataverse application. Normally what we would be doing is copy a single element at a time from our document and paste it into our app.
For IT pros that have worked with database modelling for much of their career, the latest feature available in the Maker Portal, Data Workspaces will be a great tool to start working with.
On May 7th, 2024 Microsoft announced the General Availability of blocking unmanaged customizations in your environments. This new feature will prevent users from making unmanaged changes in the test and production environments as well as restrict the import of unmanaged solutions into production.
Until recently, there would be a certain subset of functions were you would need to enter the names of the column within double quotes. Starting with the latest version of Canvas Studio (version 3.24042), there will be a syntax change as to how the column names will be displayed within function arguments.
Focused views, which was originally introduced as part of the Dynamics 365 Sales app allows viewing and managing records and their associated activities on a single page. It provides the ability to not navigate back and forth between screens.
As part of the 2024 Power Platform Release Wave 1, Microsoft has released (currently in Public Preview) the ability to create secured fields and mask either all or parts of the field based on regular expressions. This would allow us to show parts of the secured fields (such as the last 4 digits of a social security number) on the form without having to deal with custom scripts and not having the ability to export the full data of those fields.
