Power Platform Dev Weekly #166

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May 24, 2023

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

This week, we have a rare beast appearing courtesy of the XrmToolCast. They are celebrating their 100th episode and have the legend behind everyone's tool of choice XrmToolBox, Tanguy Touzard. This podcast features 3 legends of XRM & Daryl Labar. Well done guys!

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Let Your Subgrid Dataset PCF Communicate with the Form
Another super post from the PCF lady - The changes inside a dataset PCF used on a subgrid might influence the other information showed on the Model-Driven Apps Forms. It could influence a counter on a form, or another subgrid which happens to show the same records. Then you need to refresh that controls. But using the Xrm object inside a PCF is unsupported. We cannot directly access the other controls directly. Read more to know about the solution.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Environment Assignment settings in Power Platform Admin Center
by Priyesh Wagh
Environment Assignments and who should be able to create what types of Dynamics 365 CRM / CE / Dataverse environments can now be easily controlled. Read to know how.

Enhanced Case experience – Full case form – Dynamics 365 Customer Service
by Nishant Rana
Nishant walks through the enhanced Case Experience that is currently available only for the Customer Service Workspace app, which targets to increase the productivity of the agent.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Using Customer Lookup in Canvas Apps (Dataverse)
by Nishant Rana
A blog post from Nishant on how to use Customer lookup in Canvas app

Power Apps: Customize A SharePoint List Form
by Matthew Devaney
Another step-by-step post from Matthew - this time on how to customize a SharePoint list from.

😎 Power Automate

All about how to use comparison operators in Power Automate
by Debajit Dutta
Debajit talks about the comparison operators in Power Automate and how to use them in expressions.

Don’t Update or Insert records in Dataverse but Upsert when using Power Automate
by Pieter Veenstra
How to use Upsert action in Power Automate flows using Microsoft Graph API in an HTTP request.

👍🏽Everything Else Power Platform

Share File into Power Virtual Agents from Dataverse File data type
by Temmy Raharjo
An interesting post from Temmy that uses multiple technology stacks (Dataverse + SharePoint + Power Automate and also PVA). The scenario involved downloading a file from a Power Virtual Agent, that is stored in Dataverse.

Use Web Templates as components
by Nick Doelman
Imagine if you could build web templates that would accept maker parameters and allow you to build a library of custom components that can be reconfigured for re-use and your makers could define how to use them.