Power Platform Dev Weekly #167
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🥇 Cover Story
by Mark Carrington
Mark really shows he is the real dev MVP of the Power Platform with this great article about how you can create your own Elastic table. He also explains the pros and cons of introducing this into your toolset.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
View & Manage License Consumption in a Dynamics 365/ Power Apps Environment
by Inogic
In an organization, we all know the significance and importance of License Consumption by the Users for an Environment, especially in the Business of Dynamics 365. To ease this for the Users, Microsoft has introduced a new feature, as an enhancement, as a part of the recent “2023 Wave 1 Release”. Read to know more.
Configure Facebook Channel – Omnichannel (Dynamics 365 Customer Service)
by Nishant Rana
Step-by-step guide to configure Facebook channel with Omnichannel for Customer Service.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Sort a Dataverse Choice Column
by Chris Harper
By default, in Power Apps, the data in a choice column is displayed in the order in which the choice options are entered in Dataverse. However, choice columns can be filtered and sorted when displayed in a Canvas app. How to do the sorting isn’t immediately obvious, so In this post Chris shows you how this can be done.
Count The Rows In A Power Apps Gallery With AllItemsCount
by Matthew Devaney
There’s a better way to count the number of rows in a Power Apps gallery than the CountRows function.. The new AllItemsCount property allows us to easily get the row count. It also offers better performance than CountRows. In this article Matthew shows you how to use a gallery’s AllItemsCount property.
😎 Power Automate
DIRECT LINK TO POWER AUTOMATE APPROVAL TASK
by Tomasz Poszytek
Sometimes you may need to send a user a direct link to their approval task in Power Automate approvals. Read this article from Tomasz on how easily this can be done.
Error handling in Power Automate using Try/Catch/Finally scope
by Deepesh Somani
Using this step by step error handling approach in Power Automate Flows, you can create custom error messages that provide detailed information about the specific errors occurring within your flow.
👍🏽Everything Else Power Platform
Power Pages - Behind the scenes integration with Azure and Dataverse
by Support-PP
Interesting article on what happens when a Portal is created.
Give everyone a chance to get featured – output random records from your Fetch XML
by Franco Musso
An interesting post from Franco on how to output random records from FetchXML in Power Pages
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Annotating Power Platform Checker results - Daniel Laskewitz and Phil Cole
🎥 Videos
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