Power Platform Dev Weekly #210

Anwesha Sharma

Mark Carrington

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Danish N.

Apr 17, 2024

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🥇 Cover Story

Creating a toast notification framework in Dynamics 365 using in-app notifications
by Ty Corcoran
In-app notifications are a great way to highlight important information to users in real time, but there’s a lot to get your head around to get started. Ty has shared a solution here to automatically trigger notifications to the right people when records are changed, which is a great starting point for your own custom solutions.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Manager Hierarchy Model
by Nati Turtledove
In this three-part series, Nati walks through the hierarchy security model which can be a good fit for some scenarios which might otherwise need you to write some tricky security logic in code.

Tip #1458: How to copy files between Dataverse tables
by Power Platform Dynamics CRM tip of the day
Here’s how you can copy files between Dataverse tables.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Exploring the improved Table function
by Laurens Martens
The Power Fx language is developing all the time, and one recent update makes it much easier to do some common tasks with tables of data. Laurens shows how to use the new options to simplify your code.

😎 Power Automate

Power Automate, The Direct Methodology Part 2
by David Wyatt
Bringing good coding practises to the low-code world, David builds on his earlier blogs to show how to create flows that are more understandable and maintainable.

CSV Alchemy: Mastering the Magic of Rows and Columns
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
CSV is the lingua franca of data - if you’re moving data between two completely different systems there’s a good chance they’ll both speak CSV. In this post Bala gives us some simple recipies to follow to parse a CSV file in Power Automate as well.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Define Own Icons to Use Both in Low-Code and PCF: using SVG and Modern Theming
by Diana Birkelbach
Consistent and clear icons can make a big difference to your application, and one of the most flexible ways to use them is as an SVG image. Here Diana shows how to embed SVG icons and dynamically change the color to make them more interactive.

🤖 Copilot & AI

Plugin Action speaks louder then words
by Ben den Blanken
Bringing the connector framework from Power Automate into the era of AI, Copilot plugins let you build much richer chat experiences that can reference and update live data through natural conversation. Ben outlines the whole process to add a leave booking feature into an HR bot.

Copilot Copilot Copilot – Differences between the Service Copilots
by Tricia Sinclair
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a lot of copilots out there! Copilot for Service, Copilot in Service, and about 200 others. This guide from Tricia helps break down what you can expect from each one.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Using Managed Environments to Support Governance
by Simon Owen
Simon dives into how you can use managed environments alongside the recent public preview of Environment Grouping to help simplify the administration of large numbers of environments and ensure you enforce policy consistently throughout your organization.

I’ve Installed The CoE Starter Kit… Now What?
by Craig White
Staying on the administration theme, you’ve probably heard of the CoE Starter Kit but in this post Craig takes a tour and highlights where you can start seeing value from it quickly.