Released version 9.1 20024

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Introduction

Version 9.1 20024 for Microsoft Dataverse is now available in all regions. This article describes the updates, including the new features, and the fixes to existing functionality, which are included in this update. This version was first made available in preview on February 27, 2020, and completed worldwide rollout on April 6, 2020.

Enhanced capabilities and experience in offline mode

Ability to work in offline mode is critical for front line workers to perform their daily jobs because they usually work in an area that has poor or no internet connectivity. We are continuously working towards improving this capability to ensure that users have a great experience in offline mode. These improvements are aimed at model-driven apps only.

Some of the improvements coming in April are:

  • Model-driven apps are faster and more reliable in offline mode, enhancing the productivity of users.
  • Seamless experience in offline mode through better communication and more actionable error messages.
  • Entities, such as Currency, will be available in offline mode.
  • The barcode scanner control will also be available in offline mode.

Improved grid column filtering in Power Apps

Tabular data manipulation is now easier with a whole range of advanced grid column filtering capabilities.

  • String and numeric fields have operators to filters like: begins with, ends with, and contains data.
  • Activity management is vastly improved with a new set of date filters. Absolute (before, after, on, etc.) and relative (last week, next year, older than X months, etc.) filters put powerful slicers at your fingertips.
  • Filtering on option set columns is as easy as checking items off a list.
  • Lookup columns also have an enhanced inline lookup experience for quick filtering.
  • Filtering a grid on columns not present in the view is easy and intuitive with the advanced filtering pane.
  • Add multiple filter conditions, including grouping and use of logical operators to create more complex condition expressions.
  • Legacy advanced find capabilities like building view filter expressions is now on Unified Interface.

Usability enhancements to editable grid

Targeted usability improvements to editable grid allows users to be more productive when editing grid-based data sets.

  • Editable grids now display up to 100 records on a lookup column, up from 20.
  • Editable grids now also display rich text content with HTML tags stripped out for better readability of fields like email body.

View selector usability enhancements

The view selector dropdown is enhanced with the following capabilities:

  1. The dropdown is longer and wider to show more views, that aid browse and selection experiences.
  2. Personal views are separated from system views and shown higher in the list.
  3. View header and label highlighting styles promote quick discovery of views.
  4. Pinning is made easier with better icon alignment.

Improvements to quick find search experience on a grid

Searching for records on a grid is more intuitive with the current view definition honored when performing search. The Search this view capability on the grid now applies the current view conditions and then searches on the fields that are configured in the quick find view definition. Enabled by default, administrators can switch back to quick find search experience easily, which targets an entity's quick find view definition for searching against and for displaying results.

Fixes and improvements

  • Fixed an issue where the save snapshot was calculated before onSave script runs - There was an issue where certain field values were not getting saved properly when using the onSave handler with a form. This fix addressed to possible edge case scenarios to ensure fields values are always saved when using the onSave handlers.