Power Platform Dev Weekly #193
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🥇 Cover Story
Flows - The Inner Workings: Dissecting Power Automate Flows
by Alex McLachlan
What better way to examine & document your flows than with another flow? In this fanastic in-depth post, Alex shows how the details of a flow are stored in Dataverse, allowing us to pull them out and auto-generate documentation.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Let’s learn about the Dataflows
by Temmy Raharjo
In this article, Temmy demonstrates not only importing data into Dataverse using the powerful Dataflows feature, but also the different ways of keeping it updated when the data source changes.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
by David Wyatt
Learning by doing is a great way to pick up new skills, and David puts that to great use here by using a fun Santa tracking app to learn about drag & drop and the never-ending fun of timezones.
Design Canvas App using the Figma UI kit
by Inogic
Share the load with your design team when you’re building canvas apps by auto-generating the bulk of the UI based on their Figma designs so you can just do the interesting code-y bits!
😎 Power Automate
Extend Copilot with Power Automate
by Low Code Lewis
Hands up who hasn’t built a Copilot yet? Integrated one with all that lovely business logic you’ve built in Power Automate? Lewis shows us how to point-and-click our way to join the systems together and call flows from a custom Copilot and show the answers back in the chat.
🌎 Power Pages
Snowfall animation for Power Pages
by Oleksandr Olashyn
Give your Power Pages some festive cheer with a beautiful touch of snow! Oleksandr gives us a couple of different ways of adding this nice effect in with either CSS or JavaScript.
How to change the base URL of a website
by Nishant Rana
In this post, you’ll see some tips & tricks when changing the base URL of a website in Power Pages.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Use Power Platform Prompts in Copilot
by Lewis Baybutt
Are you building Copilots or extending Microsoft Copilot with Microsoft Copilot Studio? Are you familiar with the recently released functionality in the Power
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Analyse images in Power Apps using Azure OpenAI GPT 4 Turbo with Vision - Suparna Banerjee
Low-code plug-ins using the Dataverse Accelerator App - Inogic
Patch Complex Dataverse Columns With Power Apps - Craig White
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