https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-modern-app-designer-preview/
With the brand new app designer, it’s now simpler and sooner to construct model-driven apps. With only a few clicks, you’ll be able to construct views and types within the maker portal, and preview your app modifications throughout the identical designer. With the intention to entry the fashionable app designer, we have to navigate to https://make.preview.powerapps.com/ and with a view to begin creating a brand new app, click on on the “+ New app” command bar button and choose Mannequin-driven from the drop down menu.
This can pop up the create mannequin pushed app from clean window, the place we will choose to make use of the Fashionable app designer (preview) or the Traditional app designer. To begin with the Fashionable app designer, choose that alternative, and click on Create.
Subsequent we might want to give the app a reputation, and an non-obligatory description, and click on on the Create button.
After a couple of seconds the brand new app shall be created, and we will begin including pages. Let’s begin and assessment what we see on the display screen as soon as we created a brand new app. Within the Command bar we have now 7 buttons. These are Again, New Web page, Settings, Swap to traditional, Save, Publish and Play. Most of those are fairly apparent.
The New Web page permits us to create a brand new web page for our app, which might be both desk based mostly or dashboard. The Settings permits us to vary the app identify and outline that we entered earlier than, and specify whether or not the app shall be out there offline.
When you choose a web page sort of sort table-based, it is possible for you to to pick a number of tables so as to add to the app, and likewise add them to the navigation (web site map).
Whenever you click on on the add button, it is possible for you to to see a preview of your app straight from the designer window, principally a preview of what you app would appear to be. The picture beneath exhibits you the preview window. You’ll discover that the middle space is the preview, and on the left hand aspect we see the tables that have been added to the app.
The preview space, not solely exhibits you the way in which the app seems to be, however means that you can change the format so that you simply see how the app will look in responsive design for various gadgets.
Additionally, you will discover the collapsed part to the left that’s expanded to point out the information tables, which comprise two further hyperlinks. The primary hyperlink is Pages. This hyperlink exhibits you the tables you might have chosen and the totally different types and views that you’ve got entry to edit.
The following hyperlink is navigation. That is principally your web site map. By default the location map will comprise a single Space, Group and Subarea, and any further tables that you’ve got added to the app, both mechanically when deciding on the entities or manually. You will have the flexibility to rename the areas and the teams, in addition to take away any of the present objects (such because the default Subarea1, which isn’t needed when you added new tables). The picture beneath exhibits the navigation that’s out there as soon as the brand new tables are created.
The principle factor to note that when organising the brand new app, that is all stay knowledge. As you click on by way of the views and the types, it is possible for you to to modify between them and look at the stay knowledge of the totally different views and types. Additionally, you will be capable of see which types and views are enabled for the app, and navigate to edit every of those and edit them from the designer straight.
When you find yourself in your apps view, and see the listing of all of your current apps (those created utilizing the brand new Fashionable expertise or previous ones, the edit button will now have a drop down choice to edit the app utilizing the brand new Fashionable design
As that is nonetheless work in progress, not all current apps shall be editable within the trendy designer, however the brand new apps that you simply create might be editable from there. Undecided but if it is a bug, or future enhancement.
There are nonetheless some limitations to the brand new Fashionable app designer that can most likely be addressed by the point this develop into out there to most people, or at a later knowledge and options which might be lacking. You’ll be able to see these by navigating to the hyperlink beneath:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/model-driven-apps/app-designer-overview
