{"id":52,"date":"2018-08-16T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:07:26","slug":"enhanced-group-experimental-control-with-layout-control-and-nesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/enhanced-group-experimental-control-with-layout-control-and-nesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Container control in canvas apps enables more control over layout and nesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The enhanced group control has been renamed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powerapps\/maker\/canvas-apps\/controls\/control-container\">container control<\/a> to enable it to live alongside authoring groups.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the latest release, we have added a new experimental feature for enhanced Group control in canvas apps.\u00a0 This control changes grouping from being a Studio only grouping concept to a real grouping control in the player.\u00a0 It enables us to enhance the grouping capabilities which weren&#8217;t possible in Studio only.<\/p>\n<p>In the PowerApps Ideas forum, we had requests to improve the current Group behavior including <a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/PowerApps-Ideas\/Insert-Items-in-to-Existing-Groups\/idi-p\/81735\"><u>improved adding or removing items from an existing group<\/u><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/PowerApps-Ideas\/Groups-of-Groups-in-a-screen\/idi-p\/115852\"><u>nested groups<\/u><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/PowerApps-Ideas\/Improve-the-use-of-groups-to-manage-objects-in-design-studio\/idi-p\/104116\"><u>setting properties at the group level<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0 Additionally we needed to enable more control over keyboard interaction to match the visual structure of the page.\u00a0 A new experimental Group control was added which is used when grouping is done.\u00a0 Any existing Group controls in the app will continue to behave as a classic group.<\/p>\n<p>Since this feature is a change to an existing concept, we are starting it as an experimental feature which requires opt-in for each app to use it.\u00a0 Based on feedback we will next move it to a preview feature which defaults to on for new apps.\u00a0 Using the enhanced Group control requires the &#8220;Improved app rendering&#8221; preview feature to be enabled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enabling enhanced groups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To opt-in to the new behavior, first open the App settings &gt; Advanced settings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"App settings &gt; Advanced settings\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Advanced20settings.png\" style=\"font-size: 13.008px; width: 303px; height: 276px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then under the Experimental features section, toggle the &#8220;Try the enhanced Group control&#8221; switch.\u00a0 Now when new groups are added, it is the enhanced group instead of the classic group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 13.008px; font-family: Tahoma, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Try enhanced group control\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Try20enhanced20group20control.png\" style=\"font-family: Tahoma, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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height: 415px;\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>Adding group controls and moving children<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An empty group can be added from the Insert.\u00a0 Additionally, controls can be moved into or moved out from the group using cut and paste.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Insert group menu\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Insert20Group20command.png\" style=\"font-size: 13.008px; width: 676px; height: 408px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The new enhanced Group control provides an actual control in the player.\u00a0 This enables keyboard actions to first go through children of the group before moving to the controls after the group.\u00a0 When a classic Group was used, the grouping had no impact on the keyboarding in the app since there was no group control in the player.\u00a0 One usage of this is when there are parallel sets of control on the left and right.\u00a0 The keyboard behavior can be made to match the visual structure of the screen.\u00a0 We will be using this to update our sample apps to have the right keyboard order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group control properties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The enhanced Group control has properties which can be set or used in the expressions.\u00a0 The class Group properties were really an aggregate of the individual controls in the group.\u00a0 If you changed the value of a classic Group property, it was set on each of the children controls.\u00a0 Instead with the enhanced Group, it has its own X, Y, Height, and Width properties.\u00a0 One usage of this is to move group by just changing the group X and Y values.\u00a0 All of the child control positions are relative to the parent.\u00a0 Then all of the child controls move with the parent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Group properties\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Group20properties.png\" style=\"width: 316px; 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