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This week saw the launch of the Color Challenge, part of Color Cloud, a new event in Hamburg, Germany. Lots of MVPs and a certain ginger Microsoftie are daring to take on the new colour challenge and get their hair dyed for the event, all in the name of a good cause. Tattoos are also on the cards for Will & Chris! Get contributing to some great local charities and show your love for the community!
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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
Modern, refreshed look and feel for model-driven apps on by default
Power Platform admins can now assign licenses via Intelligent Recommendations - Public Preview
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🥇 Cover Story
Unlocking Snowflake Data Integration in Power Platform
By Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
Snowflake is a popular cloud-based data warehouse platform and in this blog series Mohamed walks through all the steps you need to pull that data into your Power Apps, complete with full examples & code!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
By Alex Shlega
In this in-depth blog series Alex demonstrates an interesting juxtaposition of old & new, letting a team that’s familiar with VBA macros in Word build content that’s nicely exposed to users in Power Apps.
Update SVG Icon to Custom Entity in Sitemap
By Priyesh Wagh
A simple and often overlooked way of making your app more user friendly.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Disable App Insights Instrument key for Canvas Apps
By Matt Collins-Jones
MCJ highlights a new feature to close another loophole in security for Canvas apps.
5 HTML Control Tricks in Power Apps
By Charles Sexton
A great article to use HTML controls as background gradients, text gradients, blurs and more more.
😎 Power Automate
Compare dates in Power Automate
By George Doubinski
Dates, times and especially time zones are an eternal subject for confusion and complexity, so check out this tip for some simple-to-follow rules for working with them in Power Automate.
By Chris Harper
JSON is key to Power Automate, but it can be confusing. This post goes through all the basics you’ll need to pull the individual bits of data you want out of a big JSON document.
🤖 Copilot & AI
Copilot. Building an Accessible Future
By Mike Hartley
Accessibility should be a key part of any development - here Mike takes a dive into how Copilot can help make all manner of tasks more accessible to a wider audience.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
A Guide to Power Platform Tenant Settings - Craig White
Open the Dataverse tools like a pro - Eric Regnier
Adventures with Model-Driven Apps: Deleting Required Fields from a Form - Matt Ruma
Preferred Solution in Dataverse - Priyesh Wagh
Download File from SharePoint Doc Library - Matthew Devaney
How to create a generic PCF text input control for styling fields in Model-driven and Power Pages apps - Namasi Naveretnam
How to choose between the different types of Power Apps - Hardit Bhatia
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Create SharePoint Library with Power Automate - Dennis Goedegebuure
Adventures with Power Automate: I see your Logic App and Raise You a Power Automate - Matt Ruma
Tip #1456: Enumerate and abstract object Properties - George Doubinski
📢 CFS
Power Platform Community Conference - Closes 2024-04-21
Power Addicts - Netherlands - Closes 2024-04-25
Nordic Summit - Norway - Closes 2024-04-30
🎥 Videos
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