Categories: Formulas

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Power Fx: Column names escape double quotes 

We are making a small syntax change to how column names are specified in AddColumns, DropColumns, ShowColumns, RenameColumns, Search, GroupBy, Ungroup, and DataSourceInfo functions.  Today they need to be wrapped in double quotes as a text string, but tomorrow they will not.
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Leverage Power Fx 1.0 

We are pleased to announce the general availability of open-source Power Fx 1.0. “1.0” means that the language definition is now stable and breaking changes will be managed and communicated. It is now ready for you to integrate in your production work loads. It will be coming to Power Apps later this year.
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Power Fx: Introducing Named Formulas 

Simplify your app’s initialization, reduce app load time, reuse logic, and improve the maintainability of your apps with an old and very powerful concept form Excel.
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Power Fx: Error handling graduates to preview 

Reliable error handling moves to preview for Power Fx and Power Apps. You now have all the tools you need to detect, replace, report, and log errors, including a good default behavior if you never take advantage of these tools. And, bonus, you can also now write blank (or null) values to databases.
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Power Apps Ideas: New enhancements and increased capabilities 

After we announced public preview of Power Apps Ideas, including writing Power Fx formulas with natural language and generating formulas from examples, we continued tuning the design and improving our AI model to make Ideas work better for you. Today, we’re happy to share some of the latest updates on Ideas with you.
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App.StartScreen: a new declarative alternative to Navigate in App.OnStart 

There is a new declarative way to control the first screen shown in a Canvas app: App.StartScreen. It is our first step in providing declarative alternatives for all the things that are done in App.OnStart today. App.OnStart is the source of many app load performance issues as it’s imperative nature prevents many optimizations.