{"id":27659,"date":"2024-03-14T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/introducing-inline-actions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:42:19","slug":"introducing-inline-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/introducing-inline-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing inline actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to introduce inline actions for Power Apps canvas apps &#8211; a new way to perform the most common authoring tasks directly inline on the canvas. Previously in order to do things like change the layout of a screen or connect a form or gallery to data, you had to know where to make these updates: either from the command bar, properties panes, or formula bar. 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