Power Platform Dev Weekly #212

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May 01, 2024

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

REJOICE!

Version history in flow is here! And we get draft flows! It is a happy day in every #FlowFam household this week. Pieter has an article that reviews the functionality and April Dunnam has a video summarising it for us all.

And back to news and updates this week - it’s a surprisingly quiet week, particularly on the Canvas Apps so if we are missing any blogs then please do let us know.

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🥇 Cover Story

Creating a Turing Complete Game in Power Apps
by David Wyatt
David has been building games in Power Apps for a year and this is the 8th one. Based on the Game of Life from John Conray, David shows how he used User Defined Functions to create the game.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Filter related records using addPreSearch?
by Phil Cole
Phil shows us how to filter a lookup field dynamically with an often forgotten feature that is useful to be reminded of.

TImeline Highlights in Power Apps
by Arun Potti
A look at the new summarise feature within the activity pane utilising Copilot!

😎 Power Automate

Share Canvas App with a M365 Group in Power Apps
By Matthew Devaney
Matthew hits it out of the park again with an example app to utilise a Power Automate flow to share an app.

Power Automate - 4 Steps to Building a Flow - DEV Community
by David Wyatt
Not content with the headline act this week, David details how he goes about building a flow (spoiler: don’t start with the flow editor!)

🤖 Copilot & AI

Introducing 8 AI Functions for Dataverse in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Another great article from a stalwart of DevWeekly authors. Pieter highlights the new AI functions available for you in Canvas apps.

{Step by Step} New Features for Copilot in Canvas Apps
by Deepesh Somani
Deepesh gives us the run down of new Copilot features in Canvas Apps - it’s often difficult to keep up with all the changes so it’s always appreciated when someone takes the effort to break them down!

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Power Platform | Known Issues
by Carsten Groth
Carsten provides insight from the Low Code Approach podcast on the same topic - Known Issues.

Power Platform forum: setting up your answers for success
by Laurens Martens
Great article discussing some training for the Super User In Training (SUIT) initiative that Laurens did about how to give great forum answers - SUIT is great for the community and definitely worth your time if you have it available.