{"id":14082,"date":"2021-04-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/search-quick-actions-are-now-customizable-in-model-driven-power-apps\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:54:56","slug":"search-quick-actions-are-now-customizable-in-model-driven-power-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/search-quick-actions-are-now-customizable-in-model-driven-power-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Search quick actions are now customizable in model-driven Power Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

We announced quick actions<\/a>\u00a0as an extension of the\u00a0the new global search experience<\/a> in Power Apps to help you complete your tasks with search without losing context of your work.<\/p>\n

Today we are excited to share the next evolution and an important facet of quick actions: the ability to customize and extend them in ways that is appropriate for your processes.<\/p>\n

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What are quick actions?<\/h2>\n

Quick actions are commands that help you complete your task without losing context of your work.<\/p>\n

Over the last few months we released a number of capabilities around search, starting with a search bar in the front and center of model-driven Power Apps. This search bar is powered by Dataverse relevance search, that shows results as you type and has robust intelligence built in.<\/p>\n

We believe that presenting contextual<\/strong> quick actions with search<\/strong> will be the basis of a “search-first” means of discovering and acting on information in model-driven Power Apps, enhancing your productivity and easing navigation.<\/p>\n

Understanding quick actions under the hood<\/h2>\n

Quick actions are contextual and relevant so that you can act on your information as you look for them with search. And hence, quick actions are a subset of a table’s homepage grid’s item-level commands.<\/p>\n

For example, when you select an account in its homepage grid, Account table’s quick actions are derived from the set of commands at the top of the page. This is important to understand the customization options available to configure quick actions.<\/p>\n

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Using rules to hide\/show quick actions<\/h2>\n

You can use the ribbon’s Enable Rule<\/a> to hide or show quick actions for a table. The following three new rules give you the flexibility to optimize quick actions:<\/p>\n