In this blog article I will be pointing out the most important features from my point of view for Power Apps that will be released from October 2022 through March 2023 .

#1 Grid Control – Further Enhancements

Public Preview: October 2022 General Availability: Not Defined

Nested Grids:  Expand a row to see a grid of related records. Multiple rows in the grid can be expanded simultaneously, which is a very nice features and give the drill through capabilities.

Grouping: Organizing data by a specific column for example Category or Date columns.

Aggregation: Select one or more columns and define an aggregation function like Sum, Min or Max

#2 Power BI quick reports in Power Apps

Early Access: August 2022 General Availability: October 2022

Using this feature is actually very handy as you can start a power BI Report from a View in a Model Driven app with just one click and you can start exploring your data

With Visualize this view option on all grid pages, you can:

• Create a Power BI quick report, starting from a view with just one button-click. The Power BI service generates visuals and a layout intelligently based on the underlying data.
• Make any necessary modifications to visuals or the filters or the columns (or any combination of all three) using the display name of the columns on the quick report.
• Save the Power BI report to a workspace of your choice, so you can access it anytime and customize it for your needs

You can start exploring some of these features in Preview by enabling through the settings on your model driven app.

#3 Form Component Control Enhancements

Early Access: August 2022 General Availability: October 2022

This features allows makers to build complex multi form entities in model driven apps without having to navigate away from the main form through the form component control which is now extending the ability to customize the command bar, Business Process flow, header and Tabs, So you have more control on the embedded form like saving it separately outside the context of the main form. An Example if you have an Account and Primary Contact so from within the account form you can control the primary contact form and move the business process, show/hide tabs ,etc.

#4 DataVerse tables integrated inside Power Apps Studio

General Availability: October 2022

This feature will allow you to create, interact with new /existing DataVerse tables directly from withing PowerApps studio and with the introduction of Power FX formulas , it can be easier for non citizen developers to easily create their columns using the Excel Style formulas they kind of used to.

It is very similar to the ability to create new tables directly through power pages

# 5 Connect to external data from Dataverse

Public Preview: October 2022 General Availability: January 2022

This feature allows you to connect to external data sources from and interact with it within DataVerse , these external data sources can be Excel , SQL, One Drive , etc this is what was called Virtual Tables but with these release the setup will be more easier to use by leveraging simple connections to these external data sources.

# 6 Appointment Description Supports Rich Edit

Early Access: August 2022 General Availability: October 2022

Add links, lists, and other rich text in your appointment description with the new rich text editor control. This feature is now automatically enabled for all apps and can be disabled in Power Platform admin console under the environment settings. Previously, the feature was an opt-in setting in the environment.

# 7 View only relevant activities in dropdown

Early Access: August 2022 General Availability: October 2022

In the activities drop down you can now see only the activities defined within the Model Driven App Metadata.

Full Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2022wave2/power-apps/?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004221