Power Platform – 2019 October Release
As we know that the Microsoft Power Platform enables us to analyze, act and automate the data to digitally transform their businesses with the underlying data platform (Common Data Service).
The 2019 R2 provides the major improvements across the Power Apps:
Themes
- To enable app makers to build higher-quality apps more easily
Simplify concepts
- To improve maker and end-user productivity in PowerApps and D365
What’s New in PowerApps:
Intelligence using AI Builder:
- Add intelligence to PowerApps with AI Builder
- Easier to deliver high-quality apps:
- PowerApps component framework for canvas apps
- Build responsive, reflowing canvas pages
- Build and consume reusable canvas components
- Faster, reliable, and stable canvas and model-driven apps on mobile
- New Common Data Service form designer adds support for event handlers
- Office 365 suite header coming to PowerApps
- PowerApps component framework for model-driven apps
- Sign in using an email address in the Dynamics 365 mobile app on an Android device
- Improvements to entity designer
- Integrated experience and tooling for administrators
- Data loss prevention policy enhancements
- PowerApps cmdlets for admins
- Admin connectors for Microsoft PowerApps
- One admin center to rule them all
- Improved capacity governance
Portal capabilities for PowerApps:
- Power BI Embedded support for portals
- PowerApps Portals
- Portal Checker enhancements
Scalable enterprise solutions:
- PowerApps test framework
- Modern Solution Explorer is the default customization experience
- New solution components get full support
- Enhanced offline capabilities for apps on the Dynamics 365 mobile app
- Share apps with users outside your tenant, B2B or B2C
- The PowerApps Checker includes rules for canvas apps and flows
Unified Interface:
- Anchoring error notifications in Unified Interface
- Connection role enabled in the Unified Interface
- Form header usability improvements
- Improved usability, density, and filtering capabilities for the Unified Interface grid
- Manage email on the timeline wall in Unified Interface
- Timeline wall filter improvements
- Timeline wall improvements in Unified Interface
- Usability enhancements to lookups in Unified Interface
- View inline images for emails that are read-only
PowerApps component framework for model-driven apps:
The PowerApps component framework is generally available for model-driven apps, allowing professional developers to create custom components for use across the full breadth of PowerApps capabilities.
Third-party developers can now create their own custom components using the libraries and services of their choice and add these reusable components to any model-driven app.
The framework not only saves time but also unlocks powerful capabilities for advanced interactions.
To facilitate the development of custom components, the Microsoft PowerApps CLI tool enables:
- fast component creation
- easy debugging
- built-in validation and
- Testing using code editor of your choice.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2019wave2/index