Override of layout description
Override of layout description
For layouts shipped from an app, the developer's description can be overridden by an administrator. The override shows on the report layout page and in the user's view of it.
Area: Reporting and analytics. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
- What's new in reporting: Layout Management and Report Inbox API's: 2:28 to 3:03 (called "Override of developer layout description" there)
Quotes
- 2:53 "so it shows up in the report layout page and and actually also the version of that for users." - Shows where an overridden layout description becomes visible.
- 3:03 "The second feature we are giving you as administrators is an ability to to interact or have agents or automation interact with the report inbox." - Introduces report inbox APIs as an administrator-facing way to automate report handling.
Prerequisites mentioned
- Layout shipped from an app that has a developer-provided summary or description
Documented features match
- Control the lifecycle of all report layouts - low confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573320. Admin control of app layouts
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: reporting, layouts, admin, al
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.