{"id":109129,"date":"2016-04-29T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:18:42","slug":"powerapps-public-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/powerapps-public-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Public Preview for PowerApps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PowerApps is a service for creating, managing and using custom business apps across platforms. PowerApps connects to your existing systems and data sources securely, allows you to build apps, forms, and workflows without writing code, and lets you publish apps instantly for web and mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few months, we\u2019ve invited thousands of users to try out PowerApps as part of our private preview. We received invaluable feedback about what they liked and what\u2019s missing, and have addressed key feedback. We\u2019d like to thank all our early adopters who have helped us make PowerApps better.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are very happy to announce the public preview of PowerApps. You can now sign up at <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\">https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com<\/a> with a work or school account. Here are some of the things you can start doing with PowerApps right away. Please look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentation<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Get started with sample apps<\/h3>\n<p>Once you sign in, you\u2019ll see sample apps on your home page. You can immediately start playing with these with sample data from the web browser and get a feel for the types of apps you can create using PowerApps. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/getting-started\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about getting started<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/5c54a318-05e4-414c-a2e3-84982cf8ff3d.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"powerapps homepage samples\" border=\"0\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/5c54a318-05e4-414c-a2e3-84982cf8ff3d.png\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"Homepage\" width=\"610\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Create new apps using PowerApps Studio<\/h3>\n<p>You can start creating new apps using the PowerApps Studio, available on the Windows Store. Choose from one of the following starting points.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Create app from data\u2019 automatically creates an app by connecting to your existing data source, using one of our many connectors, including SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Dropbox, and many more. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/get-started-create-from-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018Create app from template\u2019 lets you use one of our pre-built templates as a starting point before you customize your app. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/get-started-test-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018Create blank app\u2019 lets you start from an empty canvas, which you can customize and connect to your data using our connectors or custom APIs. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/get-started-create-from-blank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/75ad3ebd-ceb4-46fd-bc5c-ec59809ec698.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PowerApps Studio\" border=\"0\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/75ad3ebd-ceb4-46fd-bc5c-ec59809ec698.png\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"Studio\" width=\"610\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Share your apps with other users or the entire organization<\/h3>\n<p>Once you create, customize and save your apps to the cloud, you can share the app with other users or security groups within your organization. When you share apps, you can choose whether the recipient(s) can re-share the app and whether they can edit the app. You can also share apps with your entire organization. Apps respect data source permissions at all times, so be assured that only authorized users can access data from any app you share. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/share-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Run apps using the web browser or PowerApps mobile apps<\/h3>\n<p>Once you share the app with other users, they can choose to run the app from a web browser on any device (PC, tablet, or phone) or using PowerApps for iOS or Android . This way, you build the apps once and they run on any platform and any device, and are truly cross-platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/run-app-browser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/d399e159-0a90-4dc8-a88d-e0a1eac2af46.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Run PowerApps\" border=\"0\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/d399e159-0a90-4dc8-a88d-e0a1eac2af46.png\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"PowerApps-on-Tablet-and-Mobile\" width=\"610\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Add flows to automate powerful workflows from your app<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft Flow is a new service, available today in preview, for automating workflow across the growing number of apps and SaaS services that business users rely on. Microsoft Flow is fully integrated with PowerApps, which allows you to automate business workflows as part of the app. For example, send an approval email when a button is clicked or create a record in your CRM system. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Flow<\/a> and about <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/using-logic-flows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using flows as part of PowerApps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Manage apps and connections<\/h3>\n<p>You can manage all your apps from the \u2018My Apps\u2019 section of powerapps.com. You can manage who the app is shared with as well as view and manage different versions of the app. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/set-name-tile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can view and manage all your connections from the \u2018Manage -&gt; Connections\u2019 section of powerapps.com. This lets you add new connections, update credentials, view which apps are using the connection, as well as delete connections. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/add-manage-connections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Register and use custom APIs<\/h3>\n<p>Do you want to connect your app to your existing web apps and APIs? Don\u2019t see a connector to your data source? PowerApps lets you register and connect to any RESTful API as a custom API All you need to do is to generate a Swagger definition for your API and create a connection to your API by uploading this definition. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/tutorials\/register-custom-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Summing up how it works<\/h3>\n<p>As you start to play with apps, it will help to keep in mind a mental model about how PowerApps works. Most apps connect to data sources and services you\u2019re already using. Things like SharePoint Online lists, Excel files stored on OneDrive or Dropbox or Google Drive, Salesforce or Dynamics CRM Online records, SQL Azure databases and more. When you use apps, you can interact directly with the data in those systems \u2013 updating rows in a spreadsheet, for example, or adding records to a CRM system<a href=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/1ac1ab90-7e3a-4d58-a809-c8e2650bf221.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PowerApps-How-it-Works\" border=\"0\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/acom.azurecomcdn.net\/80C57D\/cdn\/mediahandler\/acomblog\/media\/PowerApps\/blog\/1ac1ab90-7e3a-4d58-a809-c8e2650bf221.png\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" title=\"PowerApps-How-it-Works\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, PowerApps fundamentally changes and accelerates how organizations build custom business applications. This is available for you to use starting today, so get started by signing up at <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\">https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a preview and we know our journey isn\u2019t complete yet. We are working feverishly on enhancing functionality. We plan to soon enable features such as support for more SharePoint data types, look-ups, more connectors and templates, and performance improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Once you start using PowerApps, you can always get answers to your questions, report issues, and submit ideas using the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/powerapps-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerApps community<\/a> site. We\u2019re waiting to hear your feedback.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The PowerApps team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very happy to announce the public preview of PowerApps. 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