{"id":4460,"date":"2019-07-02T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/june-2019-updates-for-microsoft-powerapps\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:03:17","slug":"june-2019-updates-for-microsoft-powerapps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/june-2019-updates-for-microsoft-powerapps\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2019 updates for Microsoft PowerApps"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Microsoft Business Applications Summit<\/span><\/a>\u00a0just finishing, <\/span>it is little surprise June was an incredibly busy month for the PowerApps team.\u00a0 Even if you weren’t at the Summit all of the content is available for your viewing pleasure at: https:\/\/aka.ms\/mbasonline<\/a>
\nIn June the PowerApps team released over 16 new features and enhancements for making your application creation experience even more productive and fun.
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\nIf you don’t want to wait for this blog post you can always can view a roll up of the upcoming features here: https:\/\/aka.ms\/businessappsreleasenotes<\/span><\/a> and more fine grained PowerApps weekly release information here: https:\/\/aka.ms\/PAWeeklyReleaseNotes\u00a0<\/span><\/a>
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\nAI Builder for Power Platform<\/span><\/a>
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\nAI Builder is our low code artificial intelligence platform that supports\u00a0the\u00a0Power Platform<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0It will be available for consumption on data that already exists in the Common Data Service (CDS), the\u00a0enterprise-grade datastore included in the Power Platform. AI Builder is the platform for providing a\u00a0low-code user experience for\u00a0every\u00a0developer\u00a0to create and customize their PowerApps and Flows.
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\nPowerApps Portals: powerful low-code websites for external users<\/span><\/a>
\nPow<\/span>erApps Portals enables <\/span>PowerApps makers the ability<\/span>\u00a0to build low-code, responsive websites which allow external users to interact with the data stored in the Common Data Service.
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\nGeneral availability of embedded canvas apps in model-driven forms<\/span><\/a>
\nMakers can now <\/span>extend the power of WYSIWYG, low-code customization,<\/span>\u00a0offered by canvas apps, <\/span>to model-driven forms<\/span>. Using embedded canvas apps makers can <\/span>easily design and create rich visual areas<\/span> on model-driven forms. They can also <\/span>connect and display data from over 200+ data sources<\/span> in embedded canvas apps right next to data from the <\/span>Common Data Service<\/span>. The embedded canvas apps also provide <\/span>rich data integration capabilities<\/span> to bring in contextual data from the host model-driven form to the embedded canvas app unlocking a variety of scenarios.
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\nAutomatically validate your solutions using the PowerApps checker PowerShell Module<\/span><\/a>
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\nUsing this PowerShell module, you can directly check your solutions from your pipelines and receive the a detailed report of issues similar to what was made available to you from the\u00a0<\/span>PowerApps maker portal<\/span>.\u00a0Alternatively, you can also allow your teams validate their solutions locally by using the interactive login mode to access the checker service.<\/span>
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\nPowerApps that brings Common Data Service into Outlook<\/span><\/a>
\nApp for Outlook, a model-driven app that extends Common Data Service experiences to Outlook. PowerApps is the platform for rapidly building apps and automating business processes. For users to be most productive with these apps, what also matters is the context in which users discover them. With Outlook the place where important customer interactions start and live, PowerApps Plan 2 users can now contextually extend interactions in Outlook with PowerApps.
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\nA PowerApps Center of Excellence Starter Kit<\/span><\/a>
\nThe Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit is a collection of templatized best practices, that are designed to help organizations get started with tools needed to set up a CoE. Today the starter kit focused specifically on the Administration and Governance function of the CoE, but we do plan to grow it over time to be more encompassing of all the CoE functions listed above.<\/span>
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\nReact and Office UI Fabric React now available for PowerApps component framework public preview<\/span><\/a>
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\nThis release enables PowerApps component framework developers the ability to use React to build their components. This is a big step in allowing 3rd party developers to use components that they have already built for other applications with just a few changes needed to get those components hosted by and communicating with the framework. Let’s take a look at what you need to do to create a framework component that uses React and Office UI Fabric.
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(Find out more on the PowerApps component framework forum<\/span><\/a>)
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\nImproved data table control with column formulas<\/span><\/a>
\nThe new data table control is being released as an experimental option which inserts the new control type instead of the previous type when turned on.\u00a0 Turning on the option will not affect existing data table controls and turning off the option will not remove the new data table controls.\u00a0 This allows trying the new control with an existing app that contains the previous data table.
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\nEasyRepro automated testing framework<\/span><\/a>
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\nEasyRepro is an automated UI testing framework built specifically for testing your Dynamics 365 or Model-Driven implementations. Our Wiki documentation on <\/span>GitHub<\/span> contains information on how to quickly <\/span>Get set-up and started<\/span> on writing your tests using the framework.
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\nNorthwind Traders relational data sample<\/span><\/a>
\nThis sample is now available for everyone to download and use<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The instructions for building the canvas app from scratch are also included in our documentation<\/span><\/a>, the same articles we used in the workshop here in Atlanta.
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\nOn-premises data gateway June 2019 update<\/span><\/a>
\nThis month’s On-premises data gateway update highlights:
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