Power Platform Dev Weekly #251
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🥇 Cover Story
X-Ray! [A to Z a11y]
by Mike Hartley
Theming for accessibility is a necessity in modern applications. Mike is getting near to the end of his A-Z on accessibility and this week has a great article on the use of colour.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Streamline Data Access by managing Public Views with Security Roles
by Inogic
A really useful article highlighting an often missed part of user experience, trimming the available options. Make sure you only show users what is relevant to them. This article shows how for Views.
You can bypass custom plugin logic, but you need permissions to do so
by Alex Shlega
Alex highlights a common mistake, particularly for those of us who develop with admin rights - permissions to bypass custom logic.
🏋️♀️Canvas Apps
Button - Everything you want to know about modern control #3 | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict
by Hardit Bhatia
Hardit has produced a series going deep on the new modern controls, including buttons, Avatar & Badges.
How to use custom sorting in canvas apps
by Hardit Bhatia
Another great article from Hardit, really knocking it out of the park this week!
🤖 Copilot
Enhancing Knowledge Retrieval with Microsoft Copilot Agents in Dynamics CRM and SharePoint
by Inogic
by Pieter Veenstra
An article walking through the use of variable in Copilot Studio
💻 PCF
How to style a PCF like a standard Model Driven App control
by Riccardo Gregori
Lovely article walking through theming to match MDA in your PCF control.
Style Your Fluent UI 9 PCFs for Power Apps
by Diana Birkelbach
The PCF Lady is back with a great article on theming in Fluent UI 9
😎 Power Automate
Power Automate: Renew App Registration Client Secret and Update Dataverse Environment Variable Value
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy highlights a necessary evil when creating robust, secure solutions, renewing app registrations.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Power Pages: Why Liquid and FetchXML Is Better Than Web API for Read Operations
by Nicholas Hayduk
Nick walks us through his thoughts on why utilising Liquid/FetchXML to query your system is better than the standard WebAPI (Spoiler: It Depends)
by Mark Carrington
Our very own Mark has released yet another update to the tool loved by thousands. This release allows use of Cursors, Temporary tables and Window Functions.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Create Power Platform Managed Environments For Dev-Test-Prod by Matthew Devaney
Email Tracking in Power Apps by Nati Turtledove
Overview of Managed Identity for Power Platform Plug-Ins by Daniel Pawlowski
{2025 Wave 1 Preview Feature} View enablement as per Security roles in D365 CE by Deepesh Somani
🎧 Podcasts
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