Power Platform Dev Weekly #198
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For those SharePoint fans, catch up with the SharePoint Trigger series by the excellent MCJ. His latest is here explaining the When a file is Deleted trigger.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Process Mining is Generally Available in GCC (Sovereign Region)
How early adopters are transforming their organizations with copilots
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🥇 Cover Story
by Erik Donker
FetchXML is the core language for working with data in Dataverse, so it’s always fascinating to see what it can do when you push it beyond the normal queries. In this article, Erik deep-dives into some undocumented territory to show how we can do some of the clever features from Web API in FetchXML.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Link Activities with multiple records (Preview) in Dynamics 365
by Inogic
This new preview feature lets you link activities to multiple other records. “Related” is the new “Regarding”!
Solution Layers Part 2: A Mystery Unveiled
by Nati Turtledove
Solution layering is one of those things that Dataverse developers really need to understand. In this article Nati walks through with examples of the impact of including changes to the same components in multiple layers and how Dataverse brings them together.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Power Apps User Defined Functions: Write Code Once and Resuse
by Matt Devaney
The ever excellent Matt shows some examples and some pitfalls for using the new feature of user defined functions.
by Chris Harper
Speed your users along by making sure the right item (or no item) is selected in a gallery by default, and a quick option to jump to the bottom of the list.
Using the DataSourceInfo Function in Power Apps
by Craig White
Craig continues his series highlighting lesser known function in power apps and does a great job describing DataSourceInfo.
😎 Power Automate
Concurrency Control – Apply to each for improving performance
by Nishant Rana
If you’re doing bulk record updates or imports using Power Automate you’re going to want to investigate this option to process multiple records in parallel and slash your execution times.
Replace special characters sing Power Automate
by Tomasz Poszytek
Tomasz highlights a nifty use of Flow to replace all of the special characters the user enters that might not be supported in your database. Ć Ł and Ń be gone.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Omnichannel for Customer Service - Role Persona Mapping
by Neil Parkhurst
Neil dives deep into a little known aspect of Omnichannel
Date and time columns in Dataverse
by Nick Doelman
Nick is back with core functionality and makes sure we understand the intracies of the DateTime column
🤖 Co-Pilot
by Tricia Sinclair
Whilst not sepcific to Co-Pilot, this excellent article highlights some of the issues with AI particularly around bias and how to ensure you mitigate it as best you can.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Custom Actions missing in the “Perform Action” step of the workflow - Nishant Rana
How to check if a Power apps canvas app is running on mobile or desktop device - Debajit Dutta
Dataverse: Export-Import solution for Virtual Table - Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Process AI Builder data using XPath in Power Automate - Pierter Veenstra
🎥 Videos
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