Filter Model Driven Data more easily with the AI Data Exploration Agent

April 01, 2025

2 min read

Dataverse

The new Data Exploration Agent in Power Apps is an AI feature for Model Driven apps which allows users to search for data using natural language. A nice thing about it is that it provides AI charting capabilities, which provides simple charts out of the box.

If you've not yet seen this feature, here's a quick walkthrough of how this works.

Getting started with the Data Exploration Agent

The first step is to enable this feature in the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC).

In PPAC, select Environments from the left-hand menu and select your target environment.

Next, click the Settings cog in the header. Go to Settings > Product > Features.

At the bottom of the features section, you'll see a Natural Language Grid and View Search item. Choose the option to 'Enable this feature'. As shown below, I enabled it for 'all users immediately'.

Using the Data Exploration Agent

To test this feature, I used the animal shelter demo data from the PowerUp program. This includes an "Animals" table for a pet shelter. The table includes various records of animals, such as their names, species, ages, and adoption statuses.

Once the feature is enabled, a natural language search box appears in the header. From here, I can type a natural language query like "Show me all dogs available for adoption". We see a slight delay as the query is built as shown below.

Shortly after, the results are shown. With this example, animal type is a lookup column so the query manages to recurse the relationship.

If we then click the 'visualize' button, an autogenerated chart. The customisation options are a bit limited. Beyond changing the chart type and saving it, there isn't much more we can do. However, it suffices as a quick visualisation.

Conclusion

The Data Exploration Agent is a great addition that makes it quicker and easier to filter table in model driven apps. It's great to see these AI features being introduced in the product.