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From YouTube: Power Platform Release Planner - your new superpower!

Description

In this 10-minute citizen developer-focused demo, developer Vivian Voss explores key capabilities that include feature search, my release planner, collaboration through notes, filtering (by date or functionality), use the API to retrieve release plans and ability to share release plans. Tool walkthrough. Power Platform and Dynamics products organized by what is Planned, Coming soon and Try now. For selected feature, see when last updated, public preview date, and share button. Release wave notes and documentation also available.

This PnP Community demo is taken from the Microsoft Power Platform community call – February 2023, recorded on February 15, 2023.

Demo Presenter
• Vivian Voss (Avanade) | @VivianTiiman

Community Call Conversation
• https://aka.ms/Feb15-Demo2

Supporting materials
• Release Planner - Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform | https://experience.dynamics.com/releaseplans/?app=Marketing

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Foreign notes are out for the first release wave of the year of 2023, and everyone who has ever looked into the release wave nodes can tell that it takes it's a nightmare. Let's be honest, it is a long text. You have to go through it's a lot of things that you need to go through. It's the ending. You have to afterwards figure out. If you have green marks to make sure that the things have come or are still waiting for the features to come.

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Recently, we have gotten a new superpower. There has come out a new tool called The Power Platform release, planner and I am here to tell you all about it today, but just to kick off, I am Vivian. Foss I am here I'm a solution architect at Avenue in Denmark I work as a Dynamics 365 and a Power Platform consultant as the first time now. A solution, architect, I'm also a Microsoft business applications, MVP and I'm at Dynamics, 365 and Power Platinum Community Enthusiast.

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So you might see me as organizing as volunteering as also speaking at different events, trying to push the Dynamics view into different events, but also embracing the Power Platform and everything that goes around with it and every time I love, volunteering and I love handicrafts. So, whenever I find those five minutes, then I that I don't do a volunteering platform. Anything then I also do handicrafts, mostly crocheting.

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On this one side of the screen, you can see my social media, mostly Twitter and Linkedin I'm, a thing I blog. Sometimes so there are posts, but they might be a bit randomly coming. But to get to the point of today, we have a new Power Platform release, planner that has yeah the different functionality to it. The key features are that you have the possibility of searching.

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You have the possibility of adding your own release planner. So it is a interactive tool that you can. That brings in all the release plans that there are for different release waves. So it's not just based on one. It's actually based on multiple I will also demo it all to you after we come through the key features and after that it is the different functionalities that you can try and already try out yourself.

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We have the possibility of collaboration through notes, so if you wish to, if you see something cool that you want to talk to your team about, you have the possibility of using notes and sharing. So you write your first note and people after that will write the other notes, so you can actually, within your team, you have the possibility of creating a thread of notes to look through a certain uh release, notes and certain functionality, everything that works, and then you have filtering.

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You have the possibility of filtering out the different functionality by Time Five release Wave by functionality and in the end, you have also the use of API to retrie release pens which I think is one of the coolest options that there is out there right now, and then you have the possibility of sharing the release plans. The problem with looking at the different release wave plans within Microsoft documentation is the fact that it's not that easy to share online.

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So within the release planner, you have the possibility and actually a very visual way of sharing the different functionality to the different tooling. So you have the possibility of making it work for you. But enough with the presentation. Let me show you what the fun is about.

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So this is the release planner from this link that you also have in the slide deck I. Think hoping someone can also paste in the chat this is available for everyone just open. It is a. It is a web tool that you can all use and share. One thing that I have figured out with it is the fact that, in order to use the my release plans part here, you have to be logged on.

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If you don't plug on, then you can still use or you can still go to the my release plans part, but it will give you an an error. Basically, it will tell you to log on and then you can start using the my release plans. So just one side note before you start working with it other than that everything has been very intuitive.

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In my opinion, as also mentioned, the release waves come release, swing, nodes come out for the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, and those you can also see on the left side of the screen in sitemap put different products that you can see at the release. Notes for you have the Power Platform in the bottom here and then you have Dynamics on the top for each and every product. You can see what is planned, what is coming soon and what you can already try. Now I love the China feature honestly well, I love the whole tool.

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I've also been using it for a while now, but I love the fact that you can go to the try now part and see what it is. That already has come without having to figure out and find the things working.

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So once you find a feature you click on it, you can see whether or not it has been updated. You can see when the public preview is, and here you have the pretty share button, click on it and it copies the link to your copies link and you can paste it afterwards, wherever you want to share it. For then the picture you have quick text, you have a picture.

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If there is one you get to know when the Early Access public preview and G8 date is, and you can see in which release wave, it was included in also, you have the possibility of getting directly to the functionality of the release frame nodes directly from here without having to search for it in anywhere else. The same with the learn more button, it will take you to documentation in order to create your own release plan.

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All you have to do is click on the plus to my plan, and then it automatically adds it to your plan list as simple as that.

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So when you've added that, you can see that now, I have gotten two, the one that we added now last or just added. That has also been added to the list here. Within my release plans. You also have something like a plus, and this is for the notes.

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So, as you remember, I told you that you can collaborate through notes. You have the possibility of adding notes.

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And it saves it shows who you that who has created it and when you close that and the way you can share with your colleagues or friends- is that you click on this little icon here and within those little icons, you can either share a link or you can manage it. The manage will remove access from the people. You have shared it with yeah, and the share link will make it possible for people to get access to your release, plans that you have shared with them.

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This is a really cool way of collaborating on the things and making sure that everything that you can actually work with it. As a team I also mentioned the filtering option. It is here within the filtering icon. You can see that the Freedom filter by status enabled poor availability so on and so forth. Choose the things that make sense to you choose out things that doesn't and it will filter nicely. You have also the timeline option. So when you toggle it it will either filter by scope or functionality or it will filter by time.

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So you have right now I clicked on it. It filters by date you can see February, January, December click on it again and it filters by functionality tap here, search functionality, search as a view as you will. It will give the options back to you what's new feedback and in the end here are all links to Microsoft, Access functionality and documentation that you can read more about so really quick overview of how things start working and how things work. Here.

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You also have a video here which watch the highlights, but I recommend absolutely everyone to go through it. It is out of preview. Now it is in general availability and a tool for everyone that works with release, notes totally something I cannot live without anymore.

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So thank you very much. That was a quick overview from me and giving it on to the next presentation.

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Awesome Vivian! Thank you! So everybody. Why is this valuable and important because we all struggle to keep up with technology right? There is so much it's moving so fast. uh It's like uh Ferris Bueller right. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it. This helps us stop and look around. It also is a perfect opportunity for you to work with customers to plan around the releases as they're coming out.

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This is like a crystal ball, so use it to keep up use it to plan, use it to work with your clients and customers. It's absolutely powerful! Thank you. Vivian that rocks by the way I have three older sisters and no brothers I2 crochet. So we'll have.

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To compare something sometime.

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Awesome awesome awesome.