Releases: microsoft/Templates-for-Power-Platform
Expense Reimbursement Template
Welcome to the June 2024 release of the Templates for Power Platform.
New Solutions:
Expense Reimbursement App Template
The Expense Reimbursement App streamlines and enhances the expense handling processes within organizations, targeting efficiency in managing reimbursement requests.
February 2024
Welcome to the February 2024 release of the Templates for Power Platform.
New Solutions:
Updates to the Hardware Request And Management Template
Misc. bug fixes and new binaries.
More February updates coming soon...
November 2023
Welcome to the November 2023 release of the Templates for Power Platform.
New Solutions:
Appointment Booking
The Appointment Booking template enables your organization to easily organize and streamline the appointment booking process. Any sized organization can benefit from implementing the easy to use and manage appointment booking solution. The app's design improves coordination, communication, and time management by allowing:
- Meeting providers to set up appointment types, locations, and availabilities
- Requestors to select appointment provider, type, location, and time slots to book
- Email notifications to be sent out to keep everyone in sync
- Meeting providers and requestors to share comments with one another when booking or updating an appointment
- Meeting providers to input appointment status data, such as attended, no show, and cancelled
- Delegates to manage appointment slot creation and management on behalf of meeting providers
Key capabilities include:
- Appointment Booking canvas app - an app that allows meeting providers to set up appointment slots and requestors to select appointment slots to book
- Appointment Booking Administrator model-driven app - an app the allows program administrators to manage appointment booking data
- IT Base model-driven app - an app that allows an admin to manage language preferences
- Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Outlook integration - integrations with Outlook calendars and Teams that sync data
- Copilot - an AI powered assistant that helps a program administrator manage the organization's hardware data
Access the Appointment Booking Microsoft Learn documentation to learn more and help guide you through installing and deploying the solution. You also have the option to download and install the solutions directly using the assets tied to this release.
Hardware Request And Management
The Hardware Request and Management Template empowers your organization to request and manage IT hardware assets. The template contains the building blocks necessary to digitize and automate processes that help you stay on top of your IT hardware investments so you 1) reduce costs, 2) improve productivity and 3) minimize electronic waste.
Key capabilities include:
- Hardware Request canvas app - an app that allows your employees to request hardware and see the assets currently assigned to them
- Hardware Management model-driven app - an app that allows your program administrators to manage hardware budget, request fulfillment, asset lifecycle management, and provides a 360-degree view of your organization's hardware management behavior
- Dashboards & Analytics - interactive dashboards that allow your program administrators to manage request volume and embedded Power BI that shows insights and trends
- Microsoft Teams & M365 Integration - native embedded approvals in both Teams and Outlook that deliver chat notifications as request process milestones are completed
- Copilot - an AI powered assistant that helps a program administrator manage the organization's hardware data
Access the documentation here to learn more and help guide you through installing and deploying the solution. You can also optionally download and install the solutions directly yourself using the assets tied to this release.
October 2023
Welcome to the October 2023 release of the Templates for Power Platform.
New Solutions:
Onboarding Buddy
This solution template enables an organization to automate a program whereby employees sign up as “onboarding buddies” so that they can be paired with new hires or transfers into a group to help them onboard and ramp up successfully.
- Employees can register to be available as a “buddy”
- Managers can find and match a “buddy” to someone new (aka an “onboarder”) to their organization.
- The buddy and onboarder experience is then guided by several configurable emails via Power Automate.
- Program administrators can manage the length of the program and when to send the introductory and wrap-up emails.
September 2023
Welcome to the September 2023 release of the Templates for Power Platform.
Updates To Existing Solutions:
Kudos - 1.0.0.33
- Small fixes during install/import process
- Minor bug fixes
August 2023 Update 1
Welcome to the August 2023 Update 1 release of the Templates for Power Platform.
Updates To Existing Solutions:
SAP Procurement - 1.0.0.125
- Minor improvements in handling payments
- Minor improvements in Vendor App to fix navigation issue
- Performance enhancements
SAP Base - 1.0.0.65
- Minor bug fixes
- Fix for issues ran into when installing 1.0.0.61
August 2023
Welcome to the August 2023 release of the Templates for Power Platform. We have a brand-new Solution in this release along with updates for some of the existing solutions. Description below.
New Solutions:
Employee Awards and Recognition
A Human Resource template that enables organizations to recruit, manage, reward, and retain their top-performing talent.
Updates To Existing Solutions:
SAP Procurement - 1.0.0.110
- Added Goods Receipt App + Flows
- Added Vendor Invoicing App + Flows
- Added Vendor Payments App + Flows
- Minor Improvements to Accessibility
- Minor bug fixes
- Vendor Management: Updates to include Goods Receipt, Vendor Invoicing, and Vendor Payments
- Purchase Order: Moved Goods Receipt Creation ability to new Goods Receipt App
- Requisitions: No Updates
SAP Base - 1.0.0.58
- Minor enhancements to support new Goods Receipts, Vendor Invoicing, and Vendor Payments capabilities
- Updated SAP Localizations SampleData.
June 2023
Welcome to the June 2023 pre-release of the Templates for Power Platform. We're introducing some new Solutions in this release. Descriptions are provided below.
SAP Procurement
Extend your core procure-to-pay business processes enabled within SAP. The accelerator contains the building blocks necessary to streamline all the SAP screens and attributes related to a core procure-to-pay process into one simple screen in Power Apps.
Employee Kudos
Enables individual teammates to celebrate co-workers for their contributions.