Power Platform Dev Weekly #245
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🥇 Cover Story
Power Apps Grid API – Disabling
by Diana Birkelbach
The grid control must be one of the most commonly used in model driven apps, but do you really know everything you can do with it? In this post Diana deep-dives into how to customize it by disabling various different parts of the control and gives us to ready-made recipies for common tasks. Also check out her other posts on how to customize other aspects of the grid!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Visualizing Data Models with Copilot in an ERD View – Part 2
by Inogic
The enhanced integration of Copilot with the ERD view simplifies database design by automating table creation, mapping relationships, and enabling seamless visualization and development of scalable business applications.
Lead and Contact form Insights tab in Customer Insights - Journeys (without editing Form XML)
by Amey Holden
The ‘Insights’ tab for Leads & Contacts in Customer Insights - Journeys shows marketing interaction data (email opens/clicks, form visits/fills etc.) for both real time and outbound marketing on the Contact or Lead form. But if you are not using the out of the box forms they will not be available on the form. Amey shows a neat tip of how it can be easily configured using the Power Apps maker studio form designer. Yay!
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
by Mike Hartley
Mike reaches “R” in his A-Z of accessibility with this piece about how making your apps responsive to different screen sizes is a key part of making them accessible. There’s some good tips here on things to watch out for while testing as well as how to implement responsive design in Power Apps.
😎 Power Automate
HTTP vs Send an HTTP Request in Power Automate
by Pieter Veenstra
Pieter details a great blog post comparing the Premium HTTP action with the standard Graph API actions.
How To Get Over 25 Emails In Power Automate
by Matthew Devaney
The Outlook – Get Emails (V3) action in Power Automate can get a maximum of 25 emails. To get over 25 emails you can use the Outlook – Send An HTTP request action instead and call the messages endpoint. Check out this step by step by Matt.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Dataverse: Using Or Condition in multiple QueryExpression.LinkEntities
by Temmy Raharjo
Quick tips from Temmy for those who want to retrieve data using QueryExpression, join it with multiple tables, and filter it using OR condition based on LinkEntities.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central to Power Pages
by Nick Doelman
The ability to extend data from Business Central directly to end customers, vendors and other stakeholders with the help of Power Pages, opens up a world of possibilities. Read to know more!
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Engineering vs prompt engineering - Alex Shlega
Quick Wins! [A to Z a11y] - Mike Hartley
🎥 Videos
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