Power Platform Dev Weekly #294

May 27, 2026

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🥇 Cover Story

10 Things I Love About Copilot Studio Workflows

by Matthew Devaney

You can use Copilot Studio workflows to orchestrate agents and use them as part of a pre-determined process with a trigger and actions. Workflows behave just like Power Automate flows, but there are several new features which add capabilities and improve the developer’s quality of life. In this article, Matt shares his favorite workflow features.

🖼️Canvas Apps

Filter And Display Contacts Based On Account In Custom Page
by Megan V. Walker
Megan V. Walker shows how a custom page can use the current Account record to filter Contacts, so users only see relevant people rather than every Contact in Dataverse. It is a simple but effective way to make model-driven app experiences feel more contextual and user-friendly.

🌎 Power Pages

Accelerate Power Pages Development Using Server Logic: Part 2
by Inogic
This article builds on the concept of Server Logic with Power Pages by showcasing a full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) interface that integrates with an external OData service. With this features, you can shift the heavy processing to the server side, ensuring the frontend remains streamlined while keeping API interactions secure.

Enhancing Power Pages Security Using Security Agent
by Inogic
If you have a Power Pages site that hasn’t been scanned yet, turn the Security Agent on today. Run the scan. Spend an hour going through the alerts. Chances are you’ll find something worth fixing, and now you have a tool that shows you exactly how. Read to know more.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Open Different Custom Pages In Model-driven Apps With A Reusable Script
by Megan V Walker
If you’re using multiple custom pages in your Model-Driven apps, it’s worth reading this post where Megan explains how to create a reusable script. This script can be applied across scenarios by simply adjusting parameters to specify which custom page to open and where it should be displayed.

🤖 Copilot & Code Apps

Understanding the Dynamics 365 Quality Evaluation Agent: A Complete Breakdown
by Dian Taylor
Dian provides a walkthrough of the Quality Evaluation Agent - how it automates customer service QA by assessing interactions against configurable evaluation criteria, ensuring consistent measurement of service quality across teams.

Step by Step | Copilot Studio Agent – Integrate Application Insights
by Rajeen Pentyala
In this article, Rajeev show how you can integrate Azure Application Insights with a Microsoft Copilot Studio custom agent. By the end, you will be able to capture telemetry data from your agent conversations and query it using Kusto Query Language (KQL) in the Azure portal.

🚀Power Automate

Power Automate Data Operations What They Actually Do and When to Use Each One
by Kailash Ramachandran
Kailash highlights how Data Operations in Power Automate handle filtering, reshaping, combining, and transforming arrays as single actions no loops, no conditions, no accumulated variables. Understanding when to reach for each one, and when not to, is one of the clearest performance wins available in the platform.

Understanding Power Automate flow performance
by Rajeev Pentyala
Rajeev Pentyala, who has multiple entries in this week’s newsletter, walks through how to trigger a solution-aware Power Automate instant flow from a Power Apps code app, covering the flow setup, CLI steps and generated TypeScript pieces needed to wire it all together.