Power Platform Dev Weekly #181

Twas the week before MPPC…

and

Sep 27, 2023

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

A number of the PPDevWeekly team are in Las Vegas next week for the Power Platform Conference, if you see any of us come and say hi, maybe take a photo and we’ll try and share some stories and pictures in the newsletter in the upcoming weeks.

Seeing all the socials coming out of the Nordic Summit, we’d like to congratulate the organizers on what appears to have been a fantastic event and wish them luck for Nordic Summit 2024, perhaps in Oslo…

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

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🥇 Cover Story

To Route Or Not To Route?
by Carsten Groth
The new Default Environment Routing preview feature (see the Microsoft announcements above) have caused a stir in the Power Platform blogosphere (is that still a word) this week. This article from Carsten Groth breaks down some of the questions you need to be asking to decide what’s right for you.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Learn how to use Dataverse Background operations (preview)
by Temmy Raharjo
A full end-to-end example of running Dataverse Custom APIs as an asynchronous background operation.

Managed Environments are aiming to take over CoE Starter Kit?
by Alex Shlega
Managed Environments are on the up and up and whilst CoE starter kit does some fantastic things, Alex looks for messages hidden in wording to take a guess at what the future holds

Filtering attributes for DataVerse plugins registered on Create
by Debajit Dutta
Filtering attributes on Create? For those using XrmToolBox Plugin Registration Tool, you may find it interesting to know filtering attributes can be used on Create as mentioned in this article.

😎 Power Automate

Create your own Power Automate History table records-Part 1-How to get the URL of the Flow Run?
by Shalinee Goel
Break free of the limitations of the standard Run History table by rolling your own! Store as much or as little information about your Flow runs and stay in control of how long you keep it for.

How to show the Power Automate complete Expressions?
by Arun Potti
Speed up reading those complex formulas in Power Automate using this handy browser extension.

Canyon Escape - a Power Automate Game
by David Wyatt
Step back in time with a text-based adventure game written in Power Automate, while still pretending to be productive in Outlook!

🌎 Power Pages

Where did the Create Portals button go?
by Carl de Souza
Navigate around the different admin portals to quickly create a new Power Pages site based on an existing website record.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

How to display Week day names in a Dropdown in Power Apps based on user locale
by Debajit Dutta
Keep your apps multi-lingual using the built-in functions to get day names in each user’s own language.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

I always wanted to have a portal on “my terms”, so here goes ITA Web Starter
by Alex Shlega
Alex shows us how he put together his new website using a bespoke NextJS frontend and a Power Platform backend using Power Automate, Dataverse and a Model Driven App.