Power Platform Dev Weekly #188
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🥇 Cover Story
by Van Carl Nguyen
For developers that want to get under the hood of what’s going on with low-code plug-ins, this series of posts from Van Carl Nguyen is a great way to get started.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
How to - Enable Microsoft Team chats in Dynamics 365 Apps
by Nishant Rana
Nishant details how to enable Teams in D365 to ensure collaboration
Dataverse Benchmark: Calculated Column vs Formula Column
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
The always excellent Temmy highlights some metrics on using calculated or formula columns.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Your first engineered prompt with PowerApps and OpenAI
by Mike Gowland
Who doesn’t love a bit of AI these days? Get started with the Open AI connector and plenty of tips on how to structure your prompts to get the best results.
😎 Power Automate
Exploring Cross-Environment Connectivity with the Microsoft Dataverse Connector
by Inogic
Inogic highlight how to use the new cross-environment connectivity for Dataverse.
🌎 Power Pages
Build Websites Quickly with Power Pages Copilot
by Carl de Souza
Carl highlights the ease of buidling public facing Power Pages websites using the new Copilot features
Using Dataverse low-code plug-ins with Power Pages
by Nick Doelman
Low-code plugins are popping up all over this week, in this article Nick shows us how we can use them to add custom business logic to Power Pages.
Web Roles and Enhanced Data Model
by Oleksandr Olashyn
Make sure you understand how roles are assigned in the enhanced data model and how to use Power Automate to query and assign them.
😈 Dev to the Core
Performance Insights 360: Analyzing Power Pages, Model Driven Apps, and Custom Pages with .har Files
by The Techie dood
Note just for Power Platform, get logs from your users and investigate any web app performance issues with simple graphical displays.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Omnichannel For Customer Service – Identify Customers
by Neil Parkhurst
Neil highlights a great method for improving customers for Omnichannel users.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
A Tale of Two Heroes: Azure Form Recognizer vs. AI Builder - Bala Madhusoodhanan
How to add PDF Viewer to a scrollable screen - Hardit Bhatia
Hierarchal records in Dataverse - Low Code Lewis
🎥 Videos
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