Power Platform Dev Weekly #202

Feb 21, 2024

This week Microsoft gave us a preview of a feature most requested for admins across the world, Blocking of Unmanaged solutions. This is a headline in of itself!

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

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🥇 Cover Story

Keep your Dataverse Solution clean and simple
by Linn Zawwin
A must read blog by Linn with pointers to ensure your Dataverse deployments are smooth and efficient.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Synchronous operations with Dataverse low-code plug-ins
by Raphaël Pothin
Whether you were looking for a replacement for “classic” workflows for synchronous operations since a long time or you could be interested in replacing “simple” child flows used in different scenarios, Dataverse low-code plug-ins could definitely be an interesting approach for you.

MDA: Send In-App Notification using Instant plug-in and call it from Ribbon Button
by Temmy Raharjo
Another beautiful article from Temmy that talks about a scenario where a low-code plug-in could be used.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

4, 5 or 7 syntaxes for the Patch function in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Did you know that there are 5 different syntaxes for the patch function? Or are there 7, or maybe just 4. This post by Pieter talks about the various syntaxes for the Patch function.

😎 Power Automate

Call any Dataverse/Dynamics 365 REST API from Power Automate
by Yannick Reekmans
In Power Automate you can use the Dataverse connector to access data in Dataverse, and it even supports calling bound and unbound APIs. Unfortunately, not all REST API endpoints are available inside the connector, and the Dataverse connector also doesn't have support for impersonating another user. Luckily this can easily be resolved differently. Find out how..

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Omnichannel for Customer Service – Phone Number Formats
by Neil Parkhurst
When using Microsoft’s Omnichannel for Customer Service you may need to ensure phone numbers held on your accounts and contacts are in a specific format. There are several times when the phone number format may be significant. This post from Neil explains how phone numbers can be validated with use cases.