Power Apps Community Call -- December 2021

Power Apps Community Call -- December 2021

  • Building Xbox games with Power Apps – (create an Xbox controller

  • Office like commenting & co-authoring (add commenting capability and Experimental co-authoring with git integration, to a canvas app**)** - Emma Cooper (Microsoft).

  • Recent Power Apps News and Community Contributions (Visualize data in model-driven apps with Power BI (preview, and December Developer Tools Refresh) – Charles Sterling (Microsoft).  Latest PnP Power Apps Samples – April Dunnam (Microsoft). This call was hosted by Todd Baginski (Canviz).

The call was recorded on December 15, 2021.  Questions were addressed in chat throughout the call.

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Agenda

  • Demo 1:  Building Xbox games with Power Apps – Brian Dang (Microsoft) | @mrdang – 3:03
  • Demo 2:  Office like commenting & co-authoring – Emma Cooper (Microsoft) | – 29:57
  • Recent Power Apps News and Community Contributions – Charles Sterling (Microsoft) | @chass – 50:59
  • Latest PnP Power Apps Samples – April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam – 54:55

Demos

  • Demo 1:  Building Xbox games with Power Apps – presenter steps through several apps and explains which Xbox sticks and buttons are used to navigate app.  Follow along and start to build a game. The process:  Set up environment, create a player with attributes, see techniques for moving the player around screen, refine movement using functions, and rotate player.  Games = manipulate a player inside a table.  Games are tables with skins.   Have a bug crawling around your screen in no time!

  • Demo 2:  Office like commenting & co-authoring – 2 useful collaboration capabilities. Add comments, reply to threads, resolve and delete comments, @mention people, and receive an email across Power Platform products like done in Office apps.  Roadmap for comments GA CYQ1'22, comments in Canvas apps CYQ2'22.   Experimental co-authoring with git integration available now (as experimental) in canvas apps.    Users intentionally decide when to publish/merge edits to shared document.  Update history stored in back-end. 

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