We are excited to announce general availability for using Power Apps cards as an extensibility option for the Viva Connections. This means that you can surface Power Platform powered experiences directly within the Viva Connections dashboard, making it easy for the employees to access their relevant applications from one centralized location.
Viva Connections is the company branded front door to employee experiences that allows them to access important apps, tools, resources in one place, surfaces the most important news/updates and enables them to take quick action on work related tasks.
Users can develop light weight apps on using Power Apps cards which can be rendered directly in the Viva Connections quick view without user being redirected away from the other relevant applications and functionalities in the dashboard.
Support to publish Power Cards to the Viva Connections
You can create your Power Card experience in the Power Apps. When the experience is ready to be used, you can enable the card to be available in Viva Connections.
This functionality will give you the URL which you can use to surface the Power Card to be visible in the Viva Connections dashboard.
Power Apps card in the Viva Connections dashboard
Viva Connections dashboard operators can include new Power Apps card to be available within the dashboard and they can associate the right Power Card to be initiated for end users.
Example scenarios for Power Cards
Power Cards are great option to build for example form based scenarios which are powered by the Power Platform connectors. We are excited to hear about the feedback from customers on this great new opportunity.
Features and capabilities mentioned in this blog post, are demonstrated in the following video with Pooja Gulati (Microsoft), Supreet Singh (Microsoft) and Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft).
Frequently asked questions
When will this happen?
This blog post refers to following Microsoft 365 Roadmap items which have their unique scheduled, but all features should be fully released during early 2025. Rollout will start with first customers during December 2024:
What do you need to prepare?
You do not need to do anything to prepare for this update, but you may want to let your users know about this new capability. Feature will be automatically enabled for all customers.
What is next?
Currently only Dataverse connector is supported with the Power Cards, but we are working on adding new opportunities for the Power Platform developers in the form of connector support and adding more native support also for Power Apps within the Viva Connections. Already currently you can use Power Apps in the Viva Connections using this same card, but depending on the used connectors, the experience can vary.
Thanks for reading. Let us know any feedback or questions in the comments. Your feedback drives our internal prioritization, so please do not hesitate to share your thoughts 💬
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