Power Platform Dev Weekly #211

Matt Beard

and

Mark Carrington

Apr 24, 2024

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

This past week was the first ever ColorCloud event in Hamburg, Germany and it was an amazing event. Editors

Linked365

and

Matt Beard

were lucky enough to attend and present, with

Linked365

going one stage further and being one of a few amazing community members to dye their hair to raise 10,000EUR for charity! Fantastic job by the team for organizing such a good event and please check out the Power Platform BOOST podcast for their summary of the day below, Nick and Ulrikke summarise it much better than we could!

And back to news and updates this week.

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🥇 Cover Story

Build a Dataverse Plugin and use AIClassify to simplify business process
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy is making the most of the new ready built AI functions available for us to use directly in the platform and talks about building a plugin to auto summarize using a plugin call these steps. Very exciting have these functions so quickly available to use wherever you want.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple plugins performance
by Piotr Gaszewski
Some great developer content - a deeper give into CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple. It’s always good to see in depth performance tests and some real takeaways to better understand what messages to use and how the performance is affected in doing so.

How to STOP Personal Power Platform Pipelines
by Matt Collins-Jones
This is how you write a blog! A real problem to overcome solved with a really creative solution that is deeply explained step by step, some fantastic effort here from Matt. Personal Power Platform Pipelines are causing a little friction in the community at the moment - so Matt takes matters into his own hands.

Form OnLoad vs OnDataLoad
by Alex Shlega
If you’ve worked with the platform for a long time it’s easy to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them. In the olden days we had an OnLoad event on a form, but here Alex shows the difference with the newer OnDataLoad event and how & when to use it.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Color converter canvas app
by Charles Sexton
Charles continues doing incredible community work and provides another fantastic canvas app to the collection - allowing makers and developers to help with colour conversion and understand how it works within Power Apps. Seems topical a week after all the colour in ColorCloud!

Download File From Dataverse File Column
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew drops a great blog post, showing an in depth implementation of how to set up a “Download File” by button to handle attachments in Dataverse

😎 Power Automate

Versioning and Drafts for Solution-based Cloud Flows – Power Automate
by Nishant Rana
Nishant shows us the brand new features for version support in Power Automate. This feature seems great and is one definitely worth keeping up to date with - Nishant talks you through it and providers screenshots throughout.

Handling Special Characters in Power Automate while using Fetch XML
by Shalinee Goel
A useful reminder of the pain of special characters and how to handle them appropriately in Power Automate.

🤖 Copilot & AI

Power Platform | ColorCloud or Whats Your AI Ambition?
by Carston Groth
Carston doesn’t waste his time in talking about ColorCloud and some of the takeaways from the event, particularly around the AI discussion. The ColorCloud session deck is also available for download from this post.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Integrating PowerBI Reporting within Dynamics 365
Displaying PowerBI Reports in Power Pages
by Carl De Souza
Carl drops two posts around PowerBI and talks about the different ways to surface reports across various parts of the Power Platform.