Power Platform Dev Weekly #192
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🥇 Cover Story
Are we ready for the age of copilots?
by Joy Kirkwood (joyofpowerapps)
Joy has written a in depth thought provoking blog post about Copilots. So many times we read about what you can do with Copilots - but how often do we read about how well it does, what else can it be applied to and what’s the current state of play across technology in general.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Use AI Copilot Control (Preview) and show it when clicking the command button
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy ahead of the curve here with a blog post about how to use the brand new AI Copilot Control directly within model driven apps, including some code on how to get it on screen!
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Auto height, Containers and flexible font sizes in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Height, containers and fonts. The core to most canvas apps but also one of the hardest things to get right. Pieter has some tips for you to help master it!
Cooking Up Data Perfection in Power Apps: Bob's Burgers Style
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
This is
here and as a data quality geek of over a decade fixing peoples data quality so seeing a blog post like this always makes me happy! Here Bala gives some tips on how to enforce some data quality standards when using canvas apps.
😎 Power Automate
Enable / Disable (turn on / turn off) multiple cloud flows
by Nishant Rana
Simply but effective reminder from Nishant - there are many different ways to do things in batch rather than clicking one by one…
Application Insights – Power Automate
by Joe Gill
Application Insights? Power Automate? Joe takes you through a walkthrough of some clever uses of Application Insights and PowerBI.
🌎 Power Pages
Anatomy of the Stripe payments in Power Pages
by andrewtechnomancy
A look behind the curtain - Stripe in Power Pages is now in preview, join Andrew as he takes look at the magic and learns about how this integration is working.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Power Platform – Security and Governance: Data Loss Prevention – What is it about?
by Van Carl Nguyen
Always good to learn, or refamiliarise yourself with DLP as it’s such an important topic. This blog post is one worth a read, just to keep up to date on your understanding of DLP and why it’s important.
So you want to build your own Copilot?
by Ben den Blanken
Join Ben as he prompts some questions about building your own copilot. This goes hand in hand with the leading post of this newsletter and continues to prompt those discussions of the future of copilot and where it may lead us.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Integrate existing Power Page sites into a new environment using CLI - Inogic
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