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What is the Plan: ENHANCED COMPONENT PROPERTIES

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Posted on by nagarjunaking

Enhanced Component Properties has been experimental since Feb 2021, last updated in June 14, 2023 & been 10 months since.

In my opinion, this is a critical functionality of components and needs to be released which creates a lot of usecases & REUSABILITY.

Looking for feedback from Microsoft on the current plan for this feature?

Joris de Gruyter, Senior Program Manager mentioned below @JorisD

"We are not intending to make any more feature changes at this time, and are purely focused on pushing this set of features to a generally available state, with quality. We are looking forward to your feedback and any issues you may find. You can engage with our team on the Experimental Features forum."

Source: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/enhanced-component-properties/

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ShantanuP Microsoft Employee on at

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We are working on fixing last few issues in this feature. Once those are done, we plan to move this out of experimental state soon.
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Thanks for the response Shantanu. I'm waiting for this feature from along time & it's a gamechanger for reusability & other usecases.
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Can you provide feedback on some of the issues that are being worked on? I don't see anything related in upcoming releases. This feature has been experimental for 3 years. This feature is very powerful a must for complex apps but I do still have some issues implementing them efficiently.

The biggest 2 issues I have are:
1. When a Property type or record/table schema is changed, the existing set value is cleared. When I have dozens of instances of a component, and need to update the property I have to copy the existing value from every instance of that component before updating the property then paste the previous values back after.

1. Nested Records/Tables can't be referenced properly in components. Some of my components have dozens of properties so I use record properties to store nested properties to keep things organized and not have to scroll through dozens of component level properties. (<Component>.Header.[Layout] vs <Component>.[HeaderLayout]). When I reference the nested table, some controls don't recognize the table or throw errors or don't refresh when the Property is updated. When I add a specific table property at the component level, it can be reference properly. PowerApps would be much easier to manage if nesting properties/controls was allowed for referencing instead of unique names. i.e. Screen1.Header.Title and Screen2.Header.Title instead of Screen1HeaderTitle and Screen2HeaderTitle.
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@ShantanuP, how do users report what may be bugs with a preview feature such as component properties? I just updated the Return Type for an Event property in a component, and when I updated the component library in my app, the code in the Event property for every copy of that component was replaced in my app (I visualized in this post).
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I'm not sure if this is a "bug" but it's a known complaint. I've seen other posts where Microsoft reps say they're working on changing the behavior but that was over a year ago and issue still remains. It's honestly by biggest complaint with Enhanced Components. Very frustrating when you have dozens of components and try to update the "Schema" for a property then you have to re-set all properties of every component instance.
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Thanks for the reply, @claytsch. Glad to know it is at least known. That's super painful, though. Makes me hesitant to work with component properties until that's resolved. But they are so powerful and useful I may just work around them and try to learn my lessons for future.