Outlook style preview panes now possible using Side Panes with Power Platform Wave 2 2021 Release

Introduction

The release of Power Platform Wave 2 2021 has brought in some amazing features and functionalities. One of which is the Side Panes and the ability to incorporate multiple panels in it.

In the earlier article we discussed how the panels are now capable of displaying entity forms, lists and even web resources and dashboards in the panels with multiple panels possible, you can show more than one of these simultaneously.

In this blog, we will be using sidePanes multi-panel to show a preview pane for the selected record and yes as a bonus we have also included the steps to get outlook style reading pane for emails.

Show Selected Record details using sidePanes

Here, we are creating a panel in the sidePane in which we will show the selected account record. When a record is selected from the view, we will create a pane and open the record in the same.

As we need to trigger it on select of the record, we will be using Editable grid. In this grid, we get the onRecordSelect…

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