Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

The Power Platform release plan (formerly release notes) for the 2020 release wave 1 has been published with great new features.

Refer here for the details and download from here for the full list of features.

Following are the standout features for me:

• Canvas apps:
  • Monitor tool – Allow makers to diagnose and troubleshoot their applications quicker
  • Create an app from data in a landscape format instead of just a phone layout.
• Model Driven Apps:
  • Edit/Create related records without navigating away – Users do not have to navigate away from a form to create or edit a related record

• Power app Portal:
  • Web APIs for CRUD operations on Common Data Service entities – This is much awaited feature as former portal versions would only allow Read outside of ‘Entity Forms’ using Liquid script.
  • Power BI Embedded component in portal designer – Portal provides the first party integration with Power BI by using the liquid tags
  • Simplified themes in portals Studio
  • Support for additional entities in global search – Now you can enable Global Search on Custom entities as well using a ‘Site Setting’ configuration.

• Power Automate:
  • Solutioning support for UI flows – With this feature, you can create your UI flows in solutions, easily export them into a package, and then import them across different environments for your ALM needs.
  • Azure integration with Power Automate – Option to create flows by using a template from the Azure portal
  • Copy and paste in Power Automate – If you want to duplicate actions in the Power Automate designer, you can now copy and paste them.
  • UI Flows – With UI flows in Power Automate, you can record mouse clicks, keyboard use, and data entry to automate manual, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks to improve workplace productivity
• Power Virtual Agent:
  • Add a Power Virtual Agents bot into Power Apps canvas app.
  • Add images and videos to topics.

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