Power Platform Dev Weekly #158
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Ali Youssefi had a nice post on Power Apps Testing (part 1) a week before but got missed so wanted to highlight it this week.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
2 New Verified Connectors and 12 Updates released in February 2023
Releasing the February Update for the Developer Tools (Power Platform CLI)
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🥇 Cover Story
Dataverse – Azure Aware Plugin + Service Bus Queue + Azure Function + Dataverse Custom API
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
What better way to start than with a topical cover story using Copilot is some interesting ways. The outcome isn’t perfect but reading the story, seeing what happens and beginning to imagine where this could go in the future really does is quite thought provoking.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Disable Async Timeout for Save Events in Model-Driven Forms – Show Dialogs in OnSave
by Diana Birkelbach
Learn how we can take control of the Promise timeout inside the save events, for confirm dialogs where we need to wait for a user interaction.
Powering Your Way to Better Command Customization: Power FX Snippets for Model-Driven Apps
by Zsolt Zombik
In this article, we will explore different Power FX snippets that can be used to customize commands in Model-driven Apps
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Embed a Power Virtual Agents bot in Canvas App
by Deepesh Somani
Step by step post on how to embed a Power Virtual Agents chatbot into Canvas App. Power Virtual Agents bot can handle multiple conversations simultaneously, which means it can scale up to meet increased demand without requiring additional resources.
Convert Speech to Text using OpenAI Whisper in Power Apps
by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
In this blog post, Mohamed talks about how to use the Microphone control and File Upload control to convert speech to text using the OpenAI Whisper API in a Canvas app using Power Automate flow.
😎 Power Automate
Change flow owner without CLI or PowerShell
by Power Maverick
Check out this article from our very own Danish on how you can change flow ownership without writing any code.
Populate a dynamic Microsoft Word template in Power Automate flow
by Stefan Strube
In this post, Stefan shows us how you can use cloud flows to populate the word template dynamically.
🚀 PCF & Custom Pages
Drag and Drop between PCFs (Canvas Apps, Custom Pages, Model-Driven Forms)
by Diana Birkelbach
The PCF lady comes up with an intersting solution on how you can acheive drag&drop inside a Custom Page or a Canvas App.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Create a Drag and Drop experience to upload Case Attachments in Power Pages
by Franco Musso
A very interesting post from Franco on drag and drop experience to upload files using the ‘drop zone’ library.
Pipelines the code-first developers view
by Carsten Groth
Check out this series of first review on Power Platform Pipelines from a code-first developers lens.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Async onSave preventDefault with external call - Benedikt Bergmann
Resolve Project Operation errors | PSS Error Logs - Priyesh Wagh
How to copy an existing DLP Policy in Power Platform - Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
Fixed – Power Virtual Agents bots for voice not working (Dynamics 365 Customer Service Omnichannel) - Nishant Rana
Client self-service – how to license properly when the client is, also, an employee? - Alex Shlega
An indicator to show the progress of a Power Automate flow - Luise Freese
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