Power Apps Mobile App: Mobile Offline Capability for Model-Driven Apps

Mobile offline synchronization capability is one the common requirements these days. Although our network and internet connections have improved a lot in last few years, there are always few scenarios like internet disconnection or weak signals due to which our device might not be able to connect to server proper and hence customers would love to have some basic functionalities when they are temporarily offline like some minor updates, quick…

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Add Power BI embedded as System Dashboard in Model-Driven Apps

Both clients and developers were waiting for this feature ever since the Power BI embedded personal dashboards were introduced in the Dynamics 365 and Model-Driven apps. Till now, we were using various tricks to embed a power bi report and dashboard in as a system dashboard but finally, we have the out-of-the-box feature to do the same. Power BI embedded dashboard feature enables developers to add a reference to an…

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Dynamics 365: Enhanced email experience in model-driven apps

In Dynamics 365 2020 release wave 1, Microsoft had introduced modern email capabilities for customers by adding features like managing inline images, composing email in a pop-up, preview of email templates prior to applying and ability to copy and paste formatted content from Office documents. Now as part of release wave 2, Microsoft has enhanced it further by adding following features: Consistent email experience: Enhanced email experience, which was earlier…

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Preview: Run canvas and model-driven apps on Power Apps mobile app

Power Apps is the mobile app which was originally built to access Canvas Apps in Andriod and iOS. Right now, using both canvas and model-driven apps together on a mobile device is a painful experience since it requires two different mobile apps to be installed on your device. We need to use Dynamics 365 apps to access model-driven apps on mobile. With the new Power Apps mobile app, we can…

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Share a model-driven app with Power Apps

Microsoft CRM/Dynamics 365/Model-Driven Apps have come a long way in the last few years. Now all Canvas apps and Model-Driven apps are consolidated and available to create, edit, play and share from one place, which is make.powerapps.com. In the past, we need to customize the Sitemap of a Dynamics 365 to ensure people with selective roles should be able to see and access only relevant records. There was no way…

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Enable creating and editing data in forms displayed as a modal dialog

One of the general requests we all hear from our users is that they would prefer to use a Dialog window to work on related records instead keep navigating from one back and forth across forms.Wells the good news is here. In the upcoming 2020 release of power platform, we will be able to open a main form as a model dialog directly from another main form. This will greatly…

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