Power Platform - Form Fill Assist Toolbar

This post will introduce the Form Fill Assist toolbar found in model-driven apps and how we can enable it in our apps.

The form fill toolbar contains both Smart Paste, which is the ability to read your clipboard and fill in fields on the current record, and the ability to use Copilot to evaluate files in order to fill in fields on the current record. These features can be super helpful to users who are needing to input data quickly and accurately.

You can leverage these features in model-driven applications. A couple things are required in order to use these features:

• At least one of the AI Form Fill Assistance settings must be enabled for the environment
• The attribute that you wish to populate on the form must have the setting enabled - example below
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• Most importantly - enabling the feature within your model-driven app
  • Edit your model-driven app in a solution
  • Click the Settings button in the ribbon
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    • Select Features
    • Find the Form Fill Assist Toolbar setting, ensure the value is On
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• Save and Publish your model-driven app

Now that we understand the prerequisites and have our features enabled, let's take a look and validate our changes (if you do not see the toolbar just yet, you may have to clear your browsers cache) - you can see the Form Fill Assist Toolbar highlighted below:

Now let's say I want to use a word document to make an attempt to enter data from the document straight to this new Account record form. I can either drag a file from my file explorer onto the Form Fill Assist Toolbar or I can click the upload button here:

Let's see it in action:

At the time of writing, this functionality only supports text, numeric, choice, and date data types. This feature won't populate lookups at this time. Any field that has column level security is also not currently supported. However, as with anything Copilot related, I suspect it will only get better with time.