Power Platform Dev Weekly #183
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This week we’re swapping Las Vegas for Farnborough for South Coast Summit, partly organized by our very own
and featuring the inaugural UK Community Awards - don’t forget to vote for !Microsoft feature releases and announcements
September 2023 updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps
Troubleshooting automatic aggregations to optimize DirectQuery performance
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🥇 Cover Story
Synchronizing aggregation fields and subgrids data in MDA forms
by Andrew Butenko
Rollup aggregated fields are great, but have the drawback of only being recalculated daily in the background. In this post, Andrew shows us how to recalculate them on demand so your users always see the latest data.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
by Nishant Rana
Use these new options in the timeline control to quickly create new related records from a note.
PowerApps Showdown: Model-Driven vs. Canvas – How to Decide
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
A nice writeup of one of the popular sessions at MPPC, presented by David Warner, Lisa Crosbie and Shane Young.
😎 Power Automate
Quickly Add Multiple Rows to Excel Table In Power Automate
by Matthew Devaney
Multiple rows can be added to an Excel table using a single Power Automate action.You’ve got to check out this article on how to add rows to an Excel table super fast!!!
Dataverse Lookup Columns in Power Automate
by Chris Harper
In this post, Chris shows how to use Power Automate to access lookup columns and change multiple child records in Dataverse based on the parent table’s record value.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
How to show Progress bar control in Power Apps canvas apps
by Debajit Dutta
Blog post from Debajit to show how to build a progress indicator in Canvas apps using Power Platform Creator kit.
Complex Canvas App Searches Made Easy!
by Chris Harper
If you want to have multiple criteria to filter the contents of a gallery in a Canvas App, here is the best way to achieve it!
🔨 Tools & Components
Flow-tastrophe? Conquer Flows with a smile using Flow Execution History
by Ivan Ficko
Quickly navigate through multiple runs of your Flows to help diagnose issues.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
5 Tips to condense your Power Fx code
by Charles Sexton
Code refactoring is for low-code too! Check out these tips to make your Power Fx code more readable and easier to understand and debug.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Is your DLP working? - Matt Collins-Jones
How to create a hierarchical Navigation menu in Power Apps canvas apps - Debajit Dutta
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