Power Platform Dev Weekly #190

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Nov 29, 2023

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🥇 Cover Story

In this video, Shane shows us how you can improve the the performance of your canvas apps as he addresses the most common question asked to him by the community.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Improve Solution import time
by Benedikt Bergmann
Microsoft is investing a lot in advancements in the overall Application Lifecycle Management process and capabilities. One area they already made a lot of improvements is the Solution import time. In this blog post, we will discuss how this improved solution import time can be achieved with pipeline deployments.

How to enable offline capabilities in your model-driven apps
by Low Code Lewis
Model-driven apps let us build incredible solutions to deliver fantastic user experiences, enabling business people to interact with business data as they need to… for workers in the field they’ll sometimes loose a signal, or perhaps not have a network connection. In these scenarios, we still need people to be able to access the tools necessary to make them productive.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Using The Trace Function In Power Apps
by Craig White
The Power Apps trace function is one of the lesser-known gems in the developer’s toolbox. It allows you to send custom messages behind the scenes to log user activity, performance, potential errors and more. In this article, you’ll learn how to use the function and how useful it is.

Dark mode Power Fx formula bar in Power Apps
by Charles Sexton
Now you can use dark mode version of Power Apps Studio with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome browsers.

😎 Power Automate

How to update contents of a Zip file with Power Automate
by David Wyatt
Often we have to deal with zip files, with the need to edit the contents but keep it in a zip, and that unfortunately is not as easy as it should be. Check out how this can be achieved with Power Automate flow.

Document Classification With Power Automate And Azure AI
by Matthew Devaney
This article from Matt shows how Power Automate can perform document classification with the help of Azure AI.

🌎 Power Pages

How to convert Power Page Portal into a Progressive Web App (PWA) & App Package
by Inogic
Step-by-step on how you can transform your Power Pages portal into a Progressive Web App (PWA) through Power Apps Portals Studio, giving it a native app-like feel and appearance. This opens up new horizons for user engagement and accessibility.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Flag conversations with low sentiment in Omnichannel for supervisor review
by Lewis Baybutt
Lewis shows a way to notify conversations with a very negative sentiment flagged for review to supervisor, thereby enabling faster resolution.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

SQL 4 CDS V8 RELEASED
by Mark Carrington
The big new feature in this update is Common Table Expression support and enhanced JSON functionality.