Power Platform Dev Weekly #213
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Andrew Butenko has released a teaser preview on his LinkedIn post about the current state of his side project, which focuses on PowerFX for model-driven app forms.
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 General Availability of Block unmanaged customizations
Announcing live connect for Power BI report integration with OneDrive and SharePoint (Preview)
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Process Mining Platforms
Announcing General Availability of Customer Managed Keys for Power Apps
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🥇 Cover Story
by Mark Carrington
Another version of SQL 4 CDS from our very own Mark. This version comes with a whole lot of improvements and features related to fetchxml querying and a lot more!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Share A Model-Driven App With An Entra Security Group
by Matthew Devaney
Matt shares a simple process for sharing model-driven apps using which you can can share a model-driven app, a security role and access to an environment all at once by adding a user to an Entra security group.
Create N:N relationship record in Dynamics 365/ DataVerse using client API – Xrm.WebApi
by Debajit Dutta
Debajit shows how you can associate records in N:N relationship in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365 using Xrm.WebApi client API’s with the help of an example.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
The Header Control in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
In this post, Pieter talks about the modern Header control available Within Power Apps
😎 Power Automate
Tip #1459: How to bypass Dataverse plug-ins and flows in Power Automate actions
by Crmtipoftheday
Did you know that you can bypass plug-ins and flows with the help of Power Automate? This is much needed when you need to insert, update, or delete a large number of records in Dataverse. Read to know more..
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
Utilizing Copilot for AI-Generated Text in Power Pages
by Inogic
Another great AI related article that shows how you can streamline the process of creating engaging content for these power pages.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Dataverse – Convert UTC Time to User Timezone in Plugin
by Temmy Raharjo
A quick tip from Temmy on converting the UTC date to the User’s Timezone settings in a Plugin.
Omnichannel for Customer Service – Enhanced Outbound Dialer (April 2024)
by Neil Parkhurst
Another post from the Omnichannel guy Niel where he explains how to enable searching for contacts directly from the dialer.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
How to Run Microsoft Flow for Every one Month - Ram P Prakash
Exploring list view in the new mobile experience for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service - Inogic
Tip #1461: Big int data type is available in Dataverse - crmtipoftheday
How to query data across hierarchy using Dynamics 365/ DataVerse SDK - Debajit Dutta
📢 Call for Speakers
A look at CFS closing soon
Baltic Summit - Poland - Closes 2024-05-31
🔊 Podcasts
In the podcast below, Daryl and Scott talk Microsoft MVP Michael Ochs about his newest toll the Power Platform CLIx and the latest updates to his Universal Search tool!
🎥 Videos
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