Power Platform Dev Weekly #153

Matt Beard

Anwesha Sharma

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Danish N.

Feb 22, 2023

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

Also, the heartiest welcome to Phil Cole & Matt Beard as our new editors.

MB Editor Note: It’s an honour to be collating my first ever Power Platform Dev Weekly after reading it so many times - the team behind the scenes who run this do an incredible job, so a big well done to them!

It’s been a POWERful week this week as Microsoft ran its PowerfulDevs event with lots of familiar faces like Scott Durow, Daniel Laskewitz, Diana Birkelbach, and many more. If you’d like to catch up on the event, all the details are on the Microsoft event page.

Hardit Bhatia is still on a roll with his alphabet series where this week he has M to T; so check out his blog for more information.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

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🥇 Cover Story

Power Apps Filter Multiple Person Column (No Delegation Warning)

Power Apps Filter Multiple Person Column (No Delegation Warning) - Matthew Devaney
A SharePoint multiple person column can be filtered with no delegation warnings in Power Apps. So can a multiple choices column type and a multiple lookups type column. No, it cannot be done with the Power Apps filter function. But it can be done by using a Power Automate flow. Read to know more.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Use Template Tasks to separate data from logic - Power Addict Ben
Separate data from your Power FX logic is an important concept also in low-code. Ben explains this with some examples and some methods in doing so. This was a great read and a good follow up to a previous post combining so many elements of the Power Platform.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

T - Teleprompter vertical scrolling - How to in Power Apps! | Hardit Bhatia
Have you ever had the need to vertically scroll text in your apps? Hardit did it in his teleprompter app. It is pretty easy to do, learn how!

Create a waffle sliding menu panel in the Canvas app | MSDYNAMICSBLOG BY DEEPESH
In this blog, we will learn how to create a waffle navigation menu for easy accessibility of features and navigating other screens in canvas apps.

🌎 Power Pages

Microsoft Dataverse information in Power Pages – offline! – ReadyXRM
The fantastic Nick Doelman made a return to blogging after a hiatus with this great blog. A fascinating read re-inventing the way we think about using the platform and how we combine it all together.

😎 Power Automate

How to filter array in Power automate flow - Debajit Dutta
A great article on some core functionality of Power Automate and a feature that people often don’t realise can be so powerful.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Bundle multiple PCF controls in one solution - Benjamin Bertin
An excellent article from Benjamin that shows how to bundle multiple PCF controls in one single Power Apps solution

Intro to PCF Control | Low Code & Fusion Dev
Power Component Framework can be used to enhance the user experience for users working with data on forms, views, dashboards, and even canvas app screens. Learn more in #LowCodeFebruary.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Power Pages: Display the contact that submitted a form. - Mx Em D'arcy
Check out this blog from Em to the display the Contact information on a Basic form in Power pages.

Getting Started with the Power Platform CLI - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻
As a developer, you might be used to working with the command line. When using low-code tools like the Power Platform, that's not a given. To bridge the gap for developers, Microsoft has created the Power Platform CLI.