Power Platform Dev Weekly #230
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It is the week of the Power Platform Community Conference - some of us from the PPDevWeekly team are attending the conference. If you see any of the team, please come and say hello! You will see more articles about Microsoft feature releases and announcements in the upcoming week but for this week, it is going to be a bit quiet for that section.
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🥇 Cover Story
Power Apps User Defined Functions
by Craig White
Craig explains how Power Apps user-defined functions allow you to create custom formulas that can be reused across your apps. This feature helps consolidate coding logic, making your apps more efficient and easier to maintain. By defining inputs and outputs, you can call these functions from anywhere in your app, ensuring consistency and reducing redundancy.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Steps to Add Copilot Control to Your Rich Text Editor
by Inogic
The blog post provides a step-by-step guide on enabling Copilot control in the Rich Text Editor for Dynamics 365 and model-driven apps, enhancing productivity with intelligent suggestions and automation.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
How to clear a DatePicker control in Canvas apps
by Debajit Dutta
Debajit blogged about the solution to clear a date picker control in Power Apps by using the Reset function to set the control back to its default state.
🌎 Power Pages
Optimising the performance of Dataverse Image columns in Power Pages
by Franco Musso
The article explores methods to enhance the performance of Dataverse image columns in Power Pages by using direct links and the web API instead of the slower download.aspx endpoint.
Set null lookup value through the Power Pages web API
by Alex Shlega
The article explains how to set a null lookup value in Power Pages using the web API by directly assigning null to the lookup field instead of using the @odata.bind syntax.
Power Pages: Management App vs PPAC vs Design Studio
by Nicholas Hayduk
As Power Pages has evolved, new ways have appeared to to manage your site. Nick unpacks the different options to help you get started if you’re looking for where to get started.
🤖 Copilot
Get AI Generated 360-Degree View of Account Summary in Dynamics 365 Sales
by Inogic
The article highlights how the AI-generated 360-degree account summary in Dynamics 365 Sales consolidates vital customer data, including buying behavior, opportunities, leads, marketing campaigns, and the latest news, to help sellers engage with customers more effectively.
😎 Power Automate
Power Automate FormatDateTime Function Examples
by Matthew Devaney
The article provides various examples of using the formatDateTime function in Power Automate to manipulate and format dates and times in flows.
Converting Numbers to Text in Power Automate
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
The blog post discusses the challenges of converting numbers to text using Power Automate's native expressions. It highlights how integrating pro-code with low-code environments enhances flexibility and manageability when dealing with complex logic, while low-code alone often struggles with sophisticated requirements.
🔨 Tools & Components
Hōjin Bangō Custom APIs (Japanese Corporate Number)
by Guido Preite
The new project on Guido Preite’s repo is about Hōjin Bangō Custom APIs, allowing users to verify Japanese corporate numbers by parsing web page content when an official API is unavailable.
⛅ Around Azure
Azure DevOps Test Plan – D365 CE Tests: Part 3 – Make testing interesting for all parties!
by Van Carl Nguyen
The article discusses strategies to make testing in Azure DevOps for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement more engaging for all stakeholders by incorporating diverse test scenarios, automating repetitive tasks, and fostering collaboration.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Sample Code to create and associate Folder / SharePoint Document Location
by Nishant Rana
In this post, Nishant provides sample code to create and associate a SharePoint folder with a document location in Dataverse for Dynamics 365 and SharePoint Online integration.
Dataverse: Create ServiceClient Strategy
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Creating a ServiceClient in Dataverse is an expensive operation that can significantly impact performance, so it’s crucial to develop a strategy to optimize this process, including benchmarking to measure and improve the efficiency of your solution.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Type cast tables coming from SQL Server stored procedures in Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra
Unified Routing – Diagnostics in Azure - Neil Parkhurst
Error in Power Automate: There’s a problem that needs to be fixed to trigger this flow - Arun Potti
This app ran into a problem in Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra
Improving User Experience with Delayed filter or Search in Power Apps - Debajit Dutta
Bypass Power Automate Flows using SuppressCallbackRegistrationExpanderJob optional parameter – Dataverse / Dynamics 365 - 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
🔊 Podcasts
Casey Burke discusses the latest features in Pipelines for Microsoft Power Platform and shares insights on the evolving landscape and future of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
🤳Socials of the week
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✨ Thanks for reading
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💁What a great resource! Thanks Linn & Mark ❤️