Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

Have you noticed that the Tables in Maker portal got a new a hub view and designer?. If it looks familiar, hub view and designer was only available in Power Apps for Teams app before and now its available in Maker portal too.

Hub view and designer for a table features :

Following is the list of features.

• Provides an overview of the table subcomponents (i.e., Columns, Forms, Views, Business rules, etc…) in a single view.

• New columns can be created in-line with in the table as shown below.

• Click on ‘Edit’ from above screen, will take you to a focused screen where you can Add Columns and Add Data.

• With appropriate privileges data can be created and updated by using ‘Add data’ option.

• Fill columns and tab out, the data gets auto saved.

• Now we can generate an app starting from your table. This will allow you to quickly create and play the app in your browser.

• Click on ‘Create’ will take you to ‘App Designer’, where you can further configure and Publish the App.

• Now my favorite of the lot is the ‘Tools‘ menu, where we can directly navigate to Web API links of ‘Table Definition’ and ‘Table data’.

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