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Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Unified Developer Experience for Finance and Operations apps is GA!
Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR) in Power BI Desktop developer mode (preview)
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🥇 Cover Story
Multiple triggers in a Cloud Flow
by Matt Collins-Jones
Did you know that Power Automate allows multiple triggers in a single cloud flow? I didn’t know. Check out Matt’s post on how it can be used in complex scenarios and to reduce the need for multiple flows by waiting for specific conditions before proceeding.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Empty Rich Text Fields Validation using Regular Expression in Dynamics 365
by Inogic
To validate empty Rich Text fields in Dynamics 365/model-driven apps, regular expressions can be used to check for the presence of HTML tags, ensuring accurate data validation even when the field appears visually empty.
Lock fields on Editable Grid using JavaScript in Dynamics 365 CRM
by Priyesh Wagh
Lock specific fields on an Editable Grid in Dynamics 365/model-driven apps using JavaScript to prevent users from editing them.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
How to use a Canvas App as a redirect page
by Matthias Schmitz
Have you ever stumbled in your projects about the need of a redirect page? Read more details on how Matthias solved it with his beloved low code Power Platform.
🌎 Power Pages
by Nick Doelman
The Microsoft team keeps adding new features and functionality to Power Pages and the latest addition is the ability to use Power FX in Power Pages!
Power pages snippet rendering – 3 options, 3 different HTML outputs
by Alex Shlega
Alex showed how Power Pages snippets can be rendered in three different ways, each affecting the final HTML output differently with an example.
🤖 Copilot
by Inogic
Learn to enhance sales efficiency in Dynamics 365 with Copilot, using APIs for opportunity summaries and related records.
😎 Power Automate
Regex match in Power Automate’s C# Plugin
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
Learn how to use a C# code to enable regex matching in Power Automate, enhancing its data validation capabilities.
5 Quick Fixes for Power Automate
by David Wyatt
David provided a rapid solution to address the five common pain points experienced by nearly every Power Automate cloud flow maker.
🚀 PCF & Custom Pages
Updating PCF Controls to support new UI
by Andrew Butenko
Andrew shares his experience updating a PCF control to support the new UI using Fluent UI frameworks, including strategies for minimizing bundle size and ensuring compatibility with both old and new UI components.
🔨 Tools & Components
Scary, dangerous, creepy tools 😱😬
by Jonas Rapp
Jonas explained how open-source tools in the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 community are essential but can pose significant security risks if misused, leading some experts to debate their legality and advisability.
by Mark Carrington
SQL 4 CDS update supports Recycle Bin Access, elastic table lookups, sharing/unsharing records via queries, debugging with a visualizer, and includes key bug fixes.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Enable / Disable (turn on / turn off) multiple cloud flows using Code – Power Automate
by Nishant Rana
A sample code to Enable / Disable (turn on / turn off) multiple cloud flows.
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
In this post, Temmy showed how to use AIReply in action with step-by-step instructions and code for the Plugin.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Resource not found for the segment action error – Power Automate - Nishant Rana
Automate Receipt Data Extraction and Entry into Excel with Power Automate AI Model - Inogic
Preview – Plugin Monitoring through Dataverse Accelerator App - Siddhesh Chavan
Team Collaboration and ALM with Power Platform and Azure DevOps - Carsten Dick
Send An Approval To A Microsoft 365 Group In Power Automate - Matthew Devaney
Flow not getting triggered (Callback Registration) - Nishant Rana
Action Failed: A record with matching key values already exists (DuplicateRecord) - Nishant Rana
🎥 Videos
🔊 Podcasts
Juliet Helms from Microsoft discusses measuring ROI for Microsoft Power Platform and shares insights on the value of Microsoft Copilot in this listener-requested podcast episode.
🤳Socials of the week
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