Power Platform Dev Weekly #229
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🥇 Cover Story
MDA: Fixing Add Existing Button in Associated GridView!
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Check out this JavaScript solution from Temmy to fix the "Add Existing" button in Model-Driven Apps' associated grid views, allowing the customization of default views and limiting user selection. It walks through deploying this script and configuring the button using Ribbon Workbench.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Customize Record Forms in Dynamics 365 CRM using the Due Open Activities Control
by Inogic
The "Due Open Activities" control in Dynamics 365 CRM simplifies task management by displaying both open and overdue activities for records, helping users stay organized and meet deadlines. It can be easily added to various forms, streamlining activity tracking without manual intervention. Learn more in this blog post.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Creating Clean JSON in Canvas Apps
by Chris Harper
The blog explains how to create clean JSON in Power Apps by removing unwanted line breaks that can cause API call failures. It offers a practical solution using the Substitute function in Power FX to eliminate carriage return and new line characters from JSON strings, ensuring smooth API integration.
Co-authoring Feature in the Canvas App
by Inogic
The blog introduces the coauthoring feature in Canvas apps, which allows multiple users to collaborate in real time, seeing each other's changes and activities within the app, similar to how Microsoft Office handles collaboration.
🌎 Power Pages
Power Pages: Upload large files
by Olena Grischenko
Olena discusses ongoing efforts to enable large file uploads in Power Pages, highlighting current limitations and potential improvements. She also mentions strategies to work around these constraints while waiting for a more permanent solution.
😎 Power Automate
Remove Duplicates From Power Automate Array Formula
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew explains how to remove duplicate items from a Power Automate array using the Union function, which combines arrays and returns only unique values. Two examples demonstrate removing duplicate emails and user records from arrays.
How to get the Dataverse Table’s first row from List Rows in Power Automate?
by Arun Potti
The article provides a method to retrieve the first row from a list of Dataverse tables using Power Automate.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Automated Testing with Power Platform Pipelines: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Suparna Banerjee
The guide details a step-by-step approach for implementing automated testing in Power Platform using pipelines. It covers setting up the testing environment, creating test cases, and integrating them into a CI/CD pipeline.
Power Platform Catalog: Streamlining Development with Reusable Components
by Deepesh Somani
Deepesh discusses how the Power Platform Catalog can enhance development efficiency by allowing users to create and reuse standardized components. It emphasizes the benefits of streamlined development processes and improved consistency across solutions.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Fixed – “The relative url contains invalid characters.” error while creating SharePoint Document Location – Dynamics 365 / Dataverse - Nishant Rana
Data Migration of Quote and Quote Product – few key points (Dataverse/Dynamics 365/ SSIS) - Nishant Rana
Fixed – The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold error– SharePoint Online - Nishant Rana
📢 Call for Speakers
A look at CFS closing soon
Canadian Power Platform Summit - Closes September 29, 2024
New Zealand Business Applications Summit - Closes October 05, 2024
Power Platform French Summit - Closes October 13, 2024
🎥 Videos
🤳Socials of the week
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