Power Platform Dev Weekly #197

Matt Beard

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Danish N.

Jan 17, 2024

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

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Danish N.

Back to business a little more this week with plenty of blogs to go around…

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🥇 Cover Story

Custom APIs for Power Automate: why they should be developed
by Guido Preite
Guido was recently presented with a problem which led him down a rabbit hole of pro dev plugging those gaps of a low code platform - before blogging about it and sharing his thoughts.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Standard or Custom Theming for PCF using Fluent UI v9
by Diana Birkelbach
Whilst this is in the model driven part of the newsletter, it isn’t aimed solely at model driven apps as it includes lots of canvas app information too. Theming in PCF will grow in 2024 and with the preview here, Diana has gone digging and shared her findings with us.

Consume Virtual Table (SQL Table) Data in Dataverse and apply business logic
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
What we will learn in this blog post is about retrieving data in SQL Table (outside of Dataverse - via Virtual Table mechanism) and creating the simplest business logic possible.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Display More than one Column in a Dropdown Control
by Chris Harper
Chris talks us through his low code approach in combining columns within the dropdown control of canvas apps.

Getting Microsoft 365 User Info From SharePoint Person Columns
by Craig White
Craig using Power Apps to look for additional profile information from M365 directly using PowerFx.

😎 Power Automate

Do you have multiple developers working on 1 flow in Power Automate?
by Pieter Veenstra
Multiple developers on a single flow in Power Automate? Is it going to work? Pieter found out so you don’t have to!

How To Create A Sharing Link For Files In Power Automate
by Matthew Devaney
With Power Automate, you can create a sharing link for anonymous users, people in your organization or specific internal or external users.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

How to fix “pac pcf push” issues with pac cli newer than 1.28.3 – publisher error or solution deleted
by Diana Birkelbach
Diana was stuck with this issue since about two months now, and saw a lot of questions in the community. Now she provides a workaround until the issue gets fixed by the product team.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

PCF Controls with FluentUI v9 – Avoid DOM id collisions
by David Rivard
No-one likes it when your controls don’t render like you want them to and when you’ve got issues in your DOM, it’s always going to cause a headache. David shares his headache and his fixes.

Everything you didn't know you needed to know about Power Platform Solutions
by David Wyatt
A deep dive reminder into solutions is never a bad thing to read to learn, or familiarise yourself with again. The latest in a great series of blog posts by David here who is talking all about solutions, their types and their contents.

🤖 Co-Pilot

Make your HR Copilot intelligent by connecting it to SharePoint
by Power Addict Ben
Tired of answering HR Questions? See how you can instantly make your HR Copilot useful by pointing it to a SharePoint document library!

Create a website using Copilot in Power Pages
by Inogic
In this blog, we are going to create a website using Copilot, the AI-powered tool. Copilot can be useful for multiple tasks such as coding, designing, writing content, and more.