Power Platform Dev Weekly #171
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This week we introduce a cracking new series by Mike Hartley on a11y, Carl de Souza makes two appearances and we report a number of new Microsoft announcements, plus a whole lot more.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Power Virtual Agents in a Day Update – New Canvas, New Content!
Even more Multitasking improvements for Power BI in Microsoft Teams
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🥇 Cover Story
The A to Z of Accessibility – Power Platform [A to Z a11y]
by Mike Hartley
I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of “A11y” until South Coast Summit in 2021 and since then, I’ve tried to pay attention where I can. Accessibility is important in everything and even as developers, we should ensure that anything we build is suitable for all and can be used by anyone. Mike has started an amazing A to Z of a11y and it’s definitely worth following along with as it applies to us all!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
CREATING A NICE LANDING PAGE FOR MODEL DRIVEN APPS
by Carl de Souza
In this post, Carl shows how to create a landing page for model driven apps. Landing pages are basically the first page a user sees when they land on an app.
Let’s try Dataverse Formula Column
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
This is quite a common scenario where we want to let users to able searching data based on the related table. For example, we want to search the order data based on the name of the customer or maybe we want to search order detail based on the product information.
How to Create Record in Dataverse - Excel Import
by Ram Prakash
Creating records in Dataverse via Excel Import is done in most implementations.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Convert Text-Based RGBA Values into Colour
by Craig White
Have you ever had RGBA values stored in text format that need converting to actual, usable RGBA colour values? Craig share a method to do it.
BUILDING POWER APPS FROM SCRATCH USING COPILOT AI
by Carl de Souza
In this post, we will look at how to use the preview feature of the Power Apps maker portal to build apps using Microsoft’s Copilot AI feature.
😎 Power Automate
Power Automate licensing – watch out for those limits
by Alex Shelga
We should really start looking at our integration/migration/and other heavily utilized user accounts to see how many power platform requests are being made daily under those accounts. Check out this post from Alex to know more.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Segmentation within Outbound Marketing - Inogic
Understanding Partition Id and Time to live columns in Dataverse Elastic tables - Debajit Dutta
Missing dependencies – You’ll need to import the following items to this environment error while importing the solution - Nishant Rana
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