Power Apps Ideas

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

It would be great if as an admin I could login as another user in order to troubleshoot issues that arise. Instead of having to waste a license for my test user so I can change the test users security roles to mimmick that of the individual having issues.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

When you place a field on a form that has a long name, the name of the field fades. In CRM 2011, the field name would wrap. Fading causes some of the important content to not be visible. It would be more desirable to have the full field name visible via the old behavior of wrapping than to fade it. This would also allow for better future protection of moving to a more responsive web design that could accommodate more varied screen resolutions (and different devices) The best practice would be to shorten the field names, or change the field label width in the section to accommodate long fields, and those are the current workarounds.

dnaedwards · ‎02-04-2019

Please consider adding the ability to designate the default entity for lookup fields like Potential Customer on the Opportunity. We have several implementations where we might use the Account or Contact entity but not both. Additionally, clients might want to require or prefer a particular entity over another and want the lookup field to, at a minimum, default to the desired entity type. I've had two client requests in the past week alone for this feature. Thank you,

PramitaWinata · ‎07-14-2021

As we would allow inline-scripting without violating 'unsafe-inline' CSP, we would like to enable nonce for our inline-scripts. Setting the nonce in the CSP header will not automatically add the nonce to the script sections in the generated page, thus the settings has no effect. Moreover, the nonce should be generated randomly for every request, according to standard, thus setting it in the CSP header using the site settings will not be a viable solution. An important security aspect when using a nonce is that you need to generate a new nonce each time a page is loaded and make sure the nonce is not predictable in any way . An attacker who can guess the nonce will still be able to run inline code. Place the generated nonce in your CSP header dynamically and insert the same nonce dynamically in the page source that contains the inline code blocks. A proper solution will be generating a nonce per request and adding this nonce to the inline script sections of the page, and to the CSP header. Technically, this might be avoided with not allowing unsafe-inline and use js webfiles. However, in the case when this is not feasible and inline scripting must be use, having nonce feature is the best solution. In DynamicF&O , we have similiar nonce feature : Manage Content Security Policy (CSP) - Commerce | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Docs

Anonymous · ‎02-22-2018

Problem: One of the biggest issues in PowerApps right now is that we cannot protect our data. If we connect any data source to PowerApps (Excel, SharePoint List, SQL Server Connection) it has to be shared with all users for them to be able to use the app. This creates a problem where user has access directly to data source and can bypass the app to do direct modifications to the data source as well as see information not meant to be seen by them. If your app was built to limit users access to some data, for example: Showing users only their vacation requests and hiding other user vacations Showing user only their travel request and hiding other user travels That means that all users can see all data as well as they can modify it without any trace. In case of Excel file on OneDrive we need to give users access to this file, that means that user can just go on OneDrive and find the excel file and edit it. In case of SharePoint List, that means that user needs to have Edit rights to that list and can just find it on the SharePoint Site and go in and edit. In case of SQL Server Connection, that means that user can open PowerApps, click create new app, open Data Sources and the shared SQL connection will be there and he can connect to it. This will allow the user to see all tables in that SQL connection with edit rights. Idea: I believe the best way to fix it, and this will allow PowerApps to become truly powerful tool to replace most of organization applications is to give the App itself write rights to the Excel sheets, SharePoint lists or SQL Connection and not the user. This way the user will have no access to the files, SharePoint List or SQL Connection and the only way to interact with data will be through the App.

Anonymous · ‎07-26-2017

We need the ability to get various metadata about the app using formula. For example it woud be great to display the version number and relelase date of the app rather than manually adding them in a text field.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

CRM 2013 introduces a great feature of Composite Fields (e.g., Full Name, Address). However, the fields that appear in this composite field are hard coded and not editable. It would be ideal if system customizers could edit these composite fields similarly to how they edit other forms within customizations.

Superman · ‎02-27-2017

Please give ability to use share point folders as data storage. One drive for business is ok, but for sharing files with others, sharepoint folders would be ace.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Our users often (intuitively, having become accustomed to this functionality in Office apps) try to copy and paste rich content with HTML/XML and images into Notes, Knowledge Base Articles, email templates, etc, and they are often frustrated/surprised at the inconsistent results. It'd be great if CRM content editing was simplified and standardized overall for end users, so that copy/paste would produce the results they expect. Being able to embed images in K/Bs, without referencing external URLs, having hyper-linked URLs in Notes, and having richer content editing controls in general seems to be something that the product should have in it's 5th generation, or certainly by the next release. I found these similar requests for this functionality, but nothing that seems to request this as part of an overall request - although there certainly seems to be a pattern here with this request being made: https://connect.microsoft.com/dynamicssuggestions/feedback/details/482002/crm-email-customisation-rich-text-editor-for-emails https://connect.microsoft.com/dynamicssuggestions/feedback/details/611420/crm-email-customisation-rich-text-editor-for-emails https://connect.microsoft.com/dynamics/feedback/details/338058/crm-email-customisation https://connect.microsoft.com/dynamicssuggestions/feedback/details/713413/rich-e-mail-template-editor https://connect.microsoft.com/dynamicssuggestions/feedback/details/562259/seamless-not-tight-integration-with-onenote-and-microsoft-crm

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

CRM 2011 had a Save and New button on the ribbon. CRM 2013 has a +New button, but the behavior has changed. Users anticipate that they can quickly enter multiple records by entering the field data and then press the +new button and then continue to enter the next record. This data entry pattern worked well in CRM 2011, but in CRM 2013, the +new button no longer saves the record. It doesn't even display a warning to the user - it just throws out the data and resets the form. The behavior should be changed back to the CRM 2011 behavior to facilitate this data entry pattern. This would also be consistent with the intent of having an auto-save behavior in CRM. As a minimum, if the behavior is not going to be changed, a warning should be displayed to the user that their data is going to be lost if they continue.

MatthieuMegaly · ‎05-11-2016

OOT PowerApps has some themes but it's impossible to adapt the colors or to create one.. that could be a good idea

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

I was going to suggest a specific change to the CRM views to allow us to specify more than 2 sort columns. However I decided to make a more general request as the views need to be improved in a number of ways. Here is my list and I guess others can add to it in the comments (it's pretty much everything you'd get in a custom grid control or something like Outlook views): 1. Allow sorting by more than 2 columns. 2. Allow custom header text. 3. Allow grouping (drag and drop to group box) with totals (total, count, average, stddev etc.). 4. Allow frozen columns so you can keep one or more columns on screen when scrolling horizontally. 5. Allow dynamic filtering (similar to excel where you can filter on column values without leaving the screen). 6. In-line editing. 7. Automatic column widths (best fit for data or data+header). 8. Improve the view editing experience. Things like a field chooser and dragging/dropping columns to re-order/group them, clicking headers to set sort order, re-size columns using the mouse etc.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

It would be great to have a button for save publish and close. In 19 cases out of 20 I want to save, publish and close while I do a customization. Now I need three clicks for that instead of one.

Rfla · ‎01-24-2017

Similar as this: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/control-pdf-viewer/ but for Word and other Office document, and with support for files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive.

starwispy · ‎03-28-2017

Currently you can only use the Tablet Layout when creating a blank app. Can you please include this layout when generating an app from a data source? I really think this should be a high priority. The option to switch between layouts would be nice too. It takes a long time to build an app from scratch, particularly as the gallery control in a blank app does not seem to find fields/columns in the data source (I've updated the Items formula, but it cannot find the columns, despite having used them successfully in the same app generated using Phone Layout).

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

I know that there is a way to remove the 5000+ restriction on views, through an unsupported modification of the DeploymentProperties table, and you probably have some reasons a to why it was introduced, but from the clients point of view, it makes no sense. In MS CRM 4.0 clients we're complaining of the lack of a counters on view, they got it, but now they are basically all complaining about the 5000+ counter. It should be possible to achieve a decent performance on even large tables, if not, you could consider employing a two-phase counting scheme, first rendering the 5000+ count one the view to increase response times and then update the actual count through ajax or something similar, asynchronously.

UB400 · ‎01-05-2017

If the point of PowerApps is to promote building of "Enterprise" Apps, then surely you need to have access to Sharepoint Document libraries that only authenticated Users can access. Currently you can only view PDFs that reside in libraries that allow anonymous access, quite pointless in an Enterprise environment. That makes this feature useless for most of us. This one feature would really open a whole lot of possibilities in Enterprise scenarios, especially when trying to wean Users off e-mail oriented workflows.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Hi, in most case default value 0:00 in Date/Time fields does not make sense. It would be very beneficial, if each of these fields can have own default value preset to meaningfull 8:00 or 9:00 based on which time Organization starts their business. Thanks, Jan

siva123 · ‎03-16-2017

Hi , I want to suggest that there be a file uploader(Control or Button ) to be used to upload files from local to the required locations like Sharepoint/Cloud/Onedrive etc. Currently there is Addimage is present based on that we can select only the images types only and not able to change the file type eventhough there is Allfiles are showing in the OpenDialog.Things to be updated like seprate control or the Addimage control to be modfied to pick any file that can be saved in the prefered location as mentioned above. I checked another approach also using the Import control. This also not support the all files it supports the zip formate. For Clients as developers we will not suggest to zip your file every timea and use the Import :D. One more thing i need to add to this is while using the Export and Import controls genrated files are not usefull outside the PowerApps, if those files can access in their original formate from outside that will be very usefull. IF we provide the Upload functionality the end user who uses the app they can easily upload thier files useing the app which is devloped in the PowerApps. Example: Am a user i want to upload file which is present in my mobile phone or file which is persent in my local on the desktop. If these is the requirement, to provide solution to this using powerApps now it is not possible. If these is achived in PowerApps End user will go for the uploads provideded by the App which is built on the powerApps. Thanks and regards, Siva

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Currently there is no way to transfer an access team template from one organization to another via solution ex- and import. The issue is that access team templates can be configured in one org, and a form is then configured to reference this template, but the template cannot be included in a solution. This should be handled completely analogous to configuring and tranferring Field Security Profiles for secured fields or Connection Roles, and should of course be included in a solution.

Share your ideas and vote for future features

Allow Admins to login as Users

Field labels should wrap, not fade

Ability to set default entity for lookup fields

Enabling nonce in Portal

Removing user ability to access data source without using the app

Get app metadata from within the app

CRM2013: Allow Composite Fields to be Customized

Sharepoint Folder as datasource

CRM needs rich text / image / content editing capability Overall - in Notes, K/B Articles, etc

CRM 2013 Form - +New button behavior

Custom themes

Improve functionality of views

Save publish & close while customizing

Word / Office documents viewer control in PowerApps

Generate app using the tablet layout

Removing the 5000+ restriction on views

PDF Viewer support for PDF documents in Sharepoint Libraries that require authentication

Change default value from 0:00 to 8:00 in Date/Time attributes

Upload File to Cloud / OneDrive / Sharepoint

Access Team Template in CRM Solution

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