Power Apps June 2023 Updates (Canvas App Focused)

Power Apps June 2023 Updates

Power Apps June 2023 Updates

Enhanced Component Properties

Enhanced component properties are a new feature for Microsoft Power Apps that provide clearer and simpler concepts for properties. They are now divided into four types:

  • Data properties: Simple properties that provide input or output data.
  • Function properties: Properties that can accept arguments and return a value, but do not support data flow yet.
  • Events and Actions: Behavior properties that can change the state of the app, such as updating a variable or manipulating a data source.

The feature aims to make properties more intuitive and flexible, and to support more scenarios and behaviors. The team has updated the experimental feature and added support for SetFocus() and Select() in the existing.

Read more: Enhanced Component Properties Blog

Introducing an Easier Than Ever Experience to Import Data from Excel

The document announces the public preview of an import from Excel experience for Dataverse, a Microsoft Power Apps platform. Users can now upload Excel files and turn them into Dataverse tables and canvas apps in a one-stop experience, without needing to create or configure the table schema or use Power Query.

The new feature also highlights Copilot, an assistant that helps with table creation by generating table names, descriptions, column names, and data types based on the uploaded data. It can detect and infer repetitive values as choice columns, providing a streamlined experience for users.

Read more: Import Data from Excel Blog

Run Your Enterprise on Power Platform with New Enterprise Application Templates

Power Platform templates are a new family of end-to-end solutions that simplify and automate core business processes for various departmental use cases. The blog post introduces the templates for Procurement and Human Resources, which are available in the public preview release.

The templates connect to enterprise systems like SAP and Microsoft Dataverse, showcasing great user experiences. Customers can use the templates with existing Power Platform licenses and customize, configure, and extend them with their own technical team or system integrator partners.

Read more: Enterprise Application Templates Blog

Delegation Improvements – Async, UpdateIf, and Miscellaneous Functions

Power Apps will now delegate more Power Fx expressions to the data source server, reducing formula authoring confusion and improving app performance and correctness. Asynchronous evaluation is now automatically delegated without the need to divide expressions into separate formulas.

The blog post also introduces new functions, such as GUID, IsToday, Now, Rand, RandBetween, and Today, which will no longer break delegation and will be evaluated on the client for delegated expressions.

Read more: Delegation Improvements Blog

Announcing General Availability of Wrap for Power Apps Wizard

Wrap for Power Apps Wizard is a new feature that turns canvas apps into native mobile apps for Android and iOS in a few simple steps. It eliminates complexity, automates the process, and provides a guided experience for users.

Users can select a canvas app, choose their target platforms, enable code signing, configure API permissions, and register their mobile app in Azure cloud. They can then test and distribute their native mobile apps to end users via App Center Test and other methods.

Read more: Wrap for Power Apps Wizard Blog

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