Power Platform Dev Weekly #207
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Check out a host of new features and some great blogs in this week’s edition of #PPDevWeekly. Hope you’ll like it.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Announcing the Public Preview of Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
Get data with Power Query available in Power BI Report Builder (Preview)
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🥇 Cover Story
Tip #1451: Aggregates in Power Automate
by George Doubinski
CRM Tip of the Day is legendary and has had some amazing tips over the years and George continues to share them (although not quite daily but we’re more than happy to let that slide).
Today’s top article is interesting and it’s here to remind us that whilst the Power Platform is so powerful, there are strange things missing you’d guess were there. In comes George and his Code Only Connectors to solve those gaps!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
FetchXML improve for us to achieve more
by Jonas Rapp
I suspect you could count on one hand the amount of people in the world who know more about FetchXML than Jonas - so when Jonas is asked an interesting question by his colleagues it results in a great blog post with an interesting problem and solution.
Environment vs. Source code centric ALM approach
by Benedikt Bergmann
A good ALM approach is always important and Benedikt speaks about different ALM approaches, describing the advantage and disadvantages of each. A good theory based blog post that is worth checking out.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
by Charles Sexton
Performance is crucial and it’s easy to let it slip when playing with PowerApps. Charles talk about images in particularly and how they can cause problems, before offering some ideas and solutions on how to get around it.
Disable Copilot for Makers in PowerApps
by Matt Collins-Jones
Copilot, copilot, copilot. But sometimes co-pilot is not the answer and the requirement exists to turn it off for users. MCJ takes us through the PowerShell heavy process in how to stop copilot running in PowerApps.
😎 Power Automate
Using Union function to remove duplicates
by Nishant Rana
A very out-of-the-box thinking by Nishant to provide an easy solution to remove duplicates using the power of expressions in cloud flows.
Fastest Way To Append To Array
by Matthew Devaney
Using the append to an array variable action in Power Automate is slow and I will show you methods that are much faster
🤖 Copilot & AI
[Video] 3 Uses for Copilot in Outlook
by Shane Young
In this short video Shane shows us a quick 3 uses of copilot in Outlook.
[Video] Copilot in Microsoft Forms
by Daniel Christian
In this another short video; this time from Daniel where he shows us the copilot in MS Forms.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
A Beginners Guide To The Power Platform Admin Centre
by Craig White & Michael Roth
Get started with the Power Platform Admin Centre. Learn the basics and discover how to access the necessary information and settings.
Creating Service Principals Really Easily Using PAC CLI
by Carl de Souza
When creating integrations with Dynamics 365, one of the common steps is to set up a service principal in Azure. And it can be a multi-step process but Carl explains a better way using PAC CLI.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
How to make Power Apps more accessible? - Hardit Bhatia
The Power of Prefer Headers in CRM OData API – The Techie dood
How to optimize performance in Power Apps - Hardit Bhatia
Create an API to update Base Currency in Dataverse - Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
🎥 Videos
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