{"id":20030,"date":"2022-06-02T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/announcing-the-general-availability-of-power-apps-modern-commanding\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:49:38","slug":"announcing-the-general-availability-of-power-apps-modern-commanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/announcing-the-general-availability-of-power-apps-modern-commanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the general availability of Power Apps modern commanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re very excited to announce modern commanding with Power Fx is now generally available (GA). <\/strong>Modern commanding provides a maker friendly low-code\/no-code experience for customizing model-driven app command bars – with\u00a0the first ever in-product command designer <\/strong>and the ability to use\u00a0Power Fx<\/strong>\u00a0(or JavaScript) for expressing business logic.<\/p>\n

\"Modern<\/p>\n

Goals and new features for GA<\/h1>\n

Modern commanding has many improvements since the preview was announced<\/a> last year. We sincerely appreciate the overwhelming amount of support and feedback from the Power Platform community and the close partnership with Scott Durrow<\/strong>\u00a0(Microsoft MVP and Ribbon Workbench creator)<\/em>. This has helped shape the below goals<\/strong> and GA features<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Makers love the experience<\/h2>\n

A large number of usability<\/strong> and maker productivity<\/strong> improvements have resulted in a simpler and streamlined maker experience. A few highlights include the addition of copy + paste, optimized navigation & layout, drag and drop within command designer, performance improvements, and deferring creation of command component libraries.<\/span>
\n\"Maker<\/p>\n

Do more with Power Fx<\/h2>\n

Various new functions<\/a> are now available to better support common command use cases. Defining visibility, actions, and interacting with custom pages is now much more powerful. For example, control command visibility using\u00a0RecordInfo()<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0DataSourceInfo()<\/a>, and work with unsaved data (aka the buffer) using <\/span>Self.Selected.Unsaved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PowerNo cliffs<\/h2>\n

Many\u00a0parity gaps<\/a> with classic Ribbon commands have been closed (+ a ton of new goodness not previously possible). For example, now you can create\u00a0dropdowns, split buttons, and groups<\/a>\u00a0as well as specify different\u00a0scopes<\/a>\u00a0– which determine whether a command is published to a single app, to a table and all apps using it, or even globally to all apps and all tables.<\/p>\n

These new scopes prevent duplicating effort for commands that need to be present in multiple apps. As an added benefit, when citizen developers modify or hide broader scoped commands, their changes are automatically isolated within their app and other apps remain unaffected.<\/p>\n

Rock solid reliability and ALM<\/h2>\n

The most important improvements are not typically visible. We’ve made significant investments into strengthening the modern commanding infrastructure, fixing issues, improving performance and reliability, and ensuring application lifecycle management is handled consistently.<\/p>\n

What’s next?<\/h1>\n

GA is a milestone, not an end state. There’s much more we’d like to do and while I can’t share everything just yet, here’s a few improvements coming soon:<\/p>\n