Microsoft Power Apps has recently got a feature update through which you can perform a cleanup on the resources while working on building a Canvas app.
Currently you can do a cleanup by clicking on the broom icon and clean up unused resources.
It is a nice and handy feature for the makers and authors of the app which will help them in removing the unused or unwanted resources while shipping the app. The cleanup process can be performed by the app author, and it is available within the design studio itself.
The Broom Icon
You can clean up following resources:
Uploaded Images
Power Automate Flows
Data sources
Uploaded Images Interface
Unused / Unwanted images uploaded while creation of Canvas app can be cleaned up by just a click of a button thereby saving lots of spaces in backend Dataverse tables
Power Automate Flows Interface
Power Automate flows which is not used in the functioning of the custom apps can be cleaned by click of a button thereby removing unwanted clutter and make the code more readable.
Data sources Interface
Additional data sources that are added to the canvas app can be cleared out easily by clicking a broom icon. With this feature you can easily keep only the data sources which are connected and used with controls within your Power Apps – Canvas app
Feature Benefits
- Easy cleaning up of unwanted images, flows, data sources
- Easy code readability
- Space savings in Dataverse
- Clean and Maintainable code
- Easy code support / maintenance
