Power Platform Dev Weekly #250
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After a SUPER busy week last week with announcements and community content galore, it’s eased up a little bit so you don’t quite have the information overload that we all got last week. Nice to be able to process all the news and take it all this week.
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🥇 Cover Story
Power Platform Low-Code Plugins: A Step Forward or Sideways?
by Thomas Sandsør
A thought provoking piece from Thomas around Low Code Plugins and his thoughts on them. Good arguments made on all sides and a definitive opinion summarised at the end - a nice read to learn how Thomas sees the future of the platform and low code plugins.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Registering a plugin step on any entity and can’t filter by attribute? Pick some entity first
by Alex Shlega
I learned something new reading this article and it’s so basic, I feel I should’ve known this for years! Interesting blog by Alex around Filtering Attributes in Plugin Registration tool
Clear all objects feature in Power Apps Solutions
by Arun Potti
Microsoft can release all the AI and fancy new features they want, but sometimes the quick, time saving ones can be the best - as Arun found out here!
🤖 Copilot
Make debugging flows in agents easier with Application Insights
by Lewis Baybutt
Debugging in the copilot space has always been difficult - Lewis breaks down his approach in how he manages to to it!
How to use Activities in Copilot Studio
by Pieter Veenstra
Following on from Pieters look at triggers, he’s back again and this time with Activities. Pieter always explains things in a great way so glad to see him continue that!
😎 Power Automate
“Update a row” vs “Upsert a Row” in the Power Automate Dataverse connector
by Alex Shelga
Whilst this intro paragraph might nearly be the same size as this post, it’s useful to checkout to see the behind the scenes differences of “Update a row” and “Upsert a row” in Power Automate.
Translate a published page via a flow
by Dennis Goedegebuure
Dennis always does great, in depth posts - solving real practical problems and explaining exactly how he has done so. This is no different, thanks for the effort Dennis!
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Use Governance Controls to Disable Anonymous Access in Power Pages
by Sam Kumar
A must read for anonymous access - governance controls to handle it as explained by Sam, including plenty of how to screenshots.
Power Platform - The Managed Delivery Process
by Dave Wyatt
Who doesn’t love a good Managed Solution article? Dave brings his unique take on articles and offers plenty of supporting material throughout, taking a historically complex topic and explaining it very well!
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
WCAG [A to Z a11y] - Mike Hartley
Power Automate Save File To A Local Drive - Matthew Devaney
🎥 Videos
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