`Power Platform Dev Weekly #221
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A quiet week this week for community content as the summer breaks start and people take some time off and the #MVPBuzz starts again soon, you’ll soon see renewal of MVP’s for 2024-25 so keep an eye on social media. Remember though you don’t need to be an MVP to be featured here though, we’d love to have you no matter what!
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
Developer environment and plan now available in Sovereign clouds
Microsoft Copilot Studio and the role of conversational AI in your organization’s IT strategy
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🥇 Cover Story
Ribbon Editor Updates: Hide/Show Buttons and Customize NEW Button
by Thomas Sandsør
In this week’s cover story Thomas, CRMKeeper, Sandsør breaks down the current state of the ribbon editor in it’s current transition from RibbonDiff to modern commanding - a good breakdown to know the current state of play.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
External authentication with Dataverse ServiceClient
by Remy van Duijkeren
Remy with a real developer blog post, showing us how to make authentication to the ServiceClient easier to handle and delegating it to external options.
Import Sequence Number attribute in Dataverse
by Nishant Rana
Import Sequence Number is an internal field (whole number), that acts as a unique identifier of the data import or data migration that created this record that ensures data consistency and traceability during data import/migration. Read to know more..
by Ivan Ficko
Not quite a blog post but worth sharing none the less - Ivan has done it again and released Power Roles, an Edge extension to make security role management easier than ever!
🌎 Power Pages
by Venkata Polisetty
Venkata continues a fundamentals blog series and it’s time for unlucky number 13 - but the content isn’t unlucky and it’s a great series so far!
😎 Power Automate
The Complete Power Automate Functions List
by Matthew Devaney
A mega list of Power Automate functions kindly put together by Matthew - this should be an immediate bookmark and reference for anyone using Power Automate.
Dates in Dataverse written by Power Apps and read by Power Automate
by Pieter Veenstra
Dates in Dataverse used by Power Apps and Power Automate can cause all sorts of challenges. How often have you had a date being an hour out from what you expect them to be? I am sure quite often. Check out this fanstastic post from Pieter that covers these date time gotchas.
Convert speech to text using Azure Speech service in Power Automate Flow
by Inogic
Azure provides Speech Services that let developers add advanced speech features to achieve complex functionality, including Speech-to-Text. With Azure Speech Services, we can convert speech to text. In this blog post, let us check how the conversion from speech to text using Azure Speech Service in a Power Automate flow is done.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
{Step by step} Dataverse low-code plug-ins in D365 CE - Deepesh Somani
How to get the Flow Run URL in the Power Automate - Arun Potti
Customize the Schedule Board to show bookable resource attribute – Dynamics 365 Field Service - Nishant Rana
Utilize Copilot for Extracting Answers from SharePoint Sales Documents - Inogic
🎥 Videos
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