Power Platform Dev Weekly #272

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Jul 30, 2025

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🥇 Cover Story

First Look at Generative Pages in Power Apps

by Diana Birkelbach

Diana shared her experience creating a Generative Page, complete with step-by-step instructions, a demo video, insights into the generation process, limitations, challenges encountered, looking through the “Agent thoughts”, and examples of iterative prompts.

Make Complex Records Easy to Read with Power Apps AI Builder’s Row Summary
by Inogic
With Power Apps AI Builder’s Row Summary (Preview) feature, users can generate AI-driven bullet point or paragraph summaries to quickly understand complex model-driven records with optional links to key fields.

😎 Power Automate

Getting the Power Automate Desktop flow details dynamically
by Definra
Learn how to dynamically retrieve Power Automate Desktop flow details such as flow name and full definition by leveraging the Dataverse workflow table for monitoring and auditing desktop flows across environments efficiently.

🔨 Tools & Components

Code library helps AI in XrmToolBox
by Jonas Rapp
This post outlines a shared .NET library, Rappen.AI.WinForm, that provides common AI-powered features—like chat history, messaging UI, and metadata handling—to simplify adding AI assistants to Dataverse tools.

The anatomy of FetchXML Builder with AI
by Andreas Adner
Andreas did a lot of the work on bringing AI features into FetchXML Builder, and in this post he dives into how a lot of the cool stuff works behind the scenes. And is there something new on the horizon?

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Are Workflow Activities Still Relevant in the Era of Power Automate?
by Kailash Ramachandran
Kailash compares classic custom workflow activities with Power Automate, evaluating their relevance today by examining flexibility, architecture, and future roadmap within the Power Platform.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Where's W... Portal Id?- Betim Beja

📢 Call for Speakers

A look at CFS closing soon

Canadian Power Platform Summit - Closes 2025-08-31

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this podcast episode, Ulrikke Akerbæk and Nick Doelman chat summer vibes, weather, music festivals, and the latest happenings in the Power Platform world.