If there’s something spectacular about Microsoft, it is that you can see how relentless they are with innovation.   Continuously innovating their products, keeps us ready to see what is coming next down the pipeline. The Wave Release Plans (also referred to as Release Notes) are issued twice a year and it details all the new features and capabilities. Our previous blog featured the Dynamics 365 Wave 2 2022 Release notes, but we have new updates for you, the spotlight goes to the Power Platform Release Wave 2 2022. 

Microsoft Power Platform: 2022 Release Wave 2 Highlights

Power Apps 

Power Apps will expand its governance capabilities to manage, enable, and support citizen development throughout the organization. Through Microsoft Dataverse, developers and makers, despite their skill level, will gain more productivity with modern experience to create and manage data and logic, enrich data, infuse intelligence to support development, and optimize user experiences.

1. Grid control support:

   Public preview – October 2022 

   During the last wave’s release, Microsoft introduced editable grids, and it featured infinite scrolling, inline editing within sub grids and views, and customizable cells. The Power Platform Release Wave 2 2022 takes this feature a notch higher. Microsoft rolls out features that help users be more productive in the grid by accessing related records without switching windows. The Power Apps Grid Control capabilities extend to these:

   • Aggregation: See your data clearly by enabling aggregation on single or multiple columns in a grid. Users can select to see the sum, minimum or maximum value, or average value for each column. If grouping has been applied, each group’s aggregate value will be shown
   • Grouping: Make your data more organized by grouping the data based on one column. Each group of rows can be collapsed and expanded depending on your preference
   • Nested grids: See a grid of related records by expanding a row. Several rows in the grid can be simultaneously expanded

2. Modern Advanced Find:

   Early access – July 23, 2022; General availability – October 2022 

   Through the new view management feature, users are provided tools to be more productive and collaborative. The detail of the modern advanced find is listed below:

   • Access any table in a model-driven way and explore data quickly using the search and advanced features
   • Apply the right lens to your data by editing columns, filtering data, and building views. 
   • The enhanced view selector enables users to search for a view and quickly find what they’re looking for
   • Through the personalization option, managing views become much more straightforward. Users can hide and order them based on their liking. This customized view goes with you across all devices and apps, both online and offline
   • Share views and manage the opinions shared with you.

3. Custom Pages are responsive automatically with Rich layouts: Public preview – October 2022

    

   Accelerate development by including responsive custom pages in converged apps and maintaining granular control over design.