Power Platform Dev Weekly #268

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Jul 02, 2025

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Microsoft feature releases and announcements

Power Pages Home Action Center Is Generally Available – Stay Informed, Stay in Control
Updates to Copilot in Power BI: More ways to see, learn from, and ask about your report data
Expanded entry points, access options, and functionality in Explore
Enhanced Component Properties, User Defined Functions, and UntypedObjects on the move

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🥇 Cover Story

Dataverse MCP Server Running from Excel

by Andreas Adner

When worlds collide! In this video and the associated code, Andreas demonstrates how you can use the tools from an MCP server in any other app, not just your AI tool of choice. If Andreas can call an MCP server from VBA code, where could you integrate it into?

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Showing SharePoint Documents Grid on a Form Tab in Dynamics 365 CRM
by Priyesh Wagh
While adding Tabs, Sections & Fields is fairly straight forward in Dynamics 365 CRM, showing the “Documents” tab which is accessible from Related section isn’t.
So, here’s how to do it when you need to.

How We Reclaimed Storage from the WebResourceBase Table in Dataverse
by Nishant Rana
While reviewing our Dataverse environment’s storage usage, we noticed something surprising—over 13 GB of our file capacity was being consumed by the WebResourceBase table alone. This table typically stores JavaScript files, HTML web resources, images, and other files tied to customizations in Dynamics 365. However, the volume was unexpectedly high, prompting us to investigate further..

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Adventures with Canvas Apps: Fun with Canvas Components
by Matt Ruma
Matt shares couple of different ways to implement Canvas Components and grow into more complex solutions, such as Component Libraries.

🤖 Copilot

Add A Record To A Table Variable In Copilot Studio
by Matthew Devaney
You can add a record to a table variable in Copilot Studio using a hidden node type named EditTable. The EditTable node can only be added through the YAML code editor. It also gives the ability to remove a record, clear the table, or take record from the start or end of the table.

😎 Power Automate

Run Power Automate From Command Button
by Mahendar Pal
Let’s say we want to run Power Automate on demand for some particular record just like we can run classical workflow by setting it run as on demand option. For Power automate we can use “When a row is selected” trigger, but the problem with this trigger is that user need to respond to dialog first and after that it will start. In this post Mahendar will discuss how we can implement workaround for that.