Power Platform Dev Weekly #216
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In case you haven’t been able to catch up with the Microsoft Build 2024 latest announcement, April Dunnam and Lisa Crosbie have done a great attempt at summarizing it.
Also, these weeks cover story by Carina Claesson who has wonderfully captured highlights from the MS Build.
Other Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Power Automate Visual GA – Embed Workflows Directly Within Your Power BI Reports
Microsoft Power Pages is bringing the new standard in secure, AI-powered capabilities
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🥇 Cover Story
Microsoft Build 2024 Highlights
by Carina Claesson
No-code / Low-code / Pro-codeto Copilot first development. We no longer talk about how it spans from No-code to Low-code to Pro-code, we now talk about Copilot first development.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Bypass execution of specific plugin (step) using BypassBusinessLogicExecutionStepIds parameter
by Nishant Rana
The BypassBusinessLogicExecutionStepIds optional parameter or request header value allows us to bypass a specific plugin step by passing its GUID, irrespective of whether it is synchronous or asynchronous, unlike the other optional parameters. Nishant shows how this can be implemented.
Recipient of type ‘Contact’ with ID is marked as non-emailable
by Arun Potti
A quick little tip from Arun in case you see the error, “Recipient of type ‘Contact’ with ID is marked as non-emailable” on a Power Automate flow that sends an email to a Contact.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
POWER FX EXPLAINED: Record scope, Scope ambiguity AND Disambiguation
by Laurens Martens
In this blog post from Laurens we’ll (1) explore what record scope means, (2) when scope ambiguity could occur, (3) the possible issues caused by scope ambiguity and (4) how to solve this via a named record scope or the disambiguation operator in a Canvas app.
🌎 Power Pages
Use Co-pilot AI to Develop Your Perfect Color Theme: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Inogic
AI Copilot can act as your website-building assistant, whether you are just getting started or are in the thick of constructing a theme for your website. It provides recommendations for pieces inside containers as well as layouts, wireframes, and other design elements. Read to know more..
😎 Power Automate
Extend A Power Automate Approval Over The 30 Day Limit
by Matthew Devaney
Power Automate approval flows can go beyond the 30 day limit if they are designed properly. This article from Matt demonstrates how the flows can be designed.
by Tomasz Poszytek
Tomasz talks about how he troubleshooted the “flow never published” error when trying to turn on a child flow post deployment.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
by Nishant Rana
If you are working with Project Operations, you might encounter a message/notification related to timezone on opening the Project form. Nishant talks about how and why you see this message.
by Temmy Raharjo
Interesting observations from Temmy on Time zone and Date time field which is always a tricky concept to understand.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Is your Asynchronous plugin or Workflow not running in Dataverse? - Ram P Prakash
How to Create a Dynamic Invoice in Power Apps Using String Interpolation and Mimicking CSS - SebS
📢 Call for Speakers
A look at CFS closing soon
Baltic Summit - Poland - Closes 2024-05-31
Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe - Closes 2024-06-12
🎥 Videos
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