Power Platform Dev Weekly #178
Power Platform Dev Weekly #178
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🥇 Cover Story
The Environmental Cost of Generative AI
by Tricia Sinclair
As developers, we are often on the cusp of technology and none more so that AI. Please check out Tricia’s most recent blog post to talk about the environmental cost of using that AI - it’ll make you think that little bit more!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
by Mark Carrington
The latest update of SQL4CDS is here with some great updates and performance enhancements. Great post explaining the latest update in depth, definitely one to read through and see what you can do now!
by Marius Pothmann
An in-depth developer blog post talking about the process of renaming or removing plugins in Dataverse as well as automated tasks to stop errors moving forward. A fun look behind the scenes for developers in a complex scenario.
Using PowerFX with commands for cloning records with N to N relationship
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy cleverly uses PowerFx and a model driven app command button to clone a record as well as cloning it’s n:n records!
😎 Power Automate
Handling New Option Set Values without making changes in your existing Power Automate
by Shalinee Goel
Shalinee talks about using the string map table when dealing with choices (option sets) as a way of being safer in Power Automate.
How to launch Power Automate flow on click of a button from a row in SharePoint list item
by Debajit Dutta
Model driven apps have a ribbon button, canvas apps can use PowerFx but here Debajit talks about how to call Power Automate from a Sharepoint list item
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Recursive Retrieval of SharePoint Documents in Canvas Apps using the GraphAPI Connector and PowerFx
by Diana Birkelbach
Diana brings together lots of different elements together in a single post and tells us how she deals with retrieving SharePoint documents in Canvas Apps.
Exploring the Potential of Microsoft Copilot in Canvas App Development
by Deepesh Somani
Deepest talks about Copoilot and shows how to use it in Canvas Apps with some step by step guidance through the process.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Dynamic inputs for Project and Survey IDs in Customer Voice Survey actions in Power Automate
by Amey Holden
Amey highlights how to move your Survey indicators through a pipeline in Power Automate
Using IntelliSense with Kupp Code Analytics
by Nishant Rana
Nishant highlights how to use Kupp Code to have IntelliSense of tables, choices and fields etc in your Visual Studio environment
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Power Automate Standards: Connection References - Matthew Devaney (this is the latest article in a series, worth catching up on)
Images [A to Z a11y] - Mike Hartley (again, latest in a series all around accessibility)
🎥 Videos
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