Power Platform Dev Weekly #194

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Dec 27, 2023

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🥇 Cover Story

PCF Custom Events – Sneak Peak
by Dianamics PCF Lady
The PCF lady Diana talks about the much awaited feature - custom events in PCF control. This is a must read for all.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Something Awesome About … Power Platform and BizApps..Dev and Ops
by Olena Grischenko
Here’s how you can send Santa’s “Ho Ho Ho” message to welcome good Makers (Managed Environments) using Markdown.

How To Setup SharePoint Integration: Model-Driven Power Apps
by Matthew Devaney
A SharePoint document library is often the better choice for storing files in an app vs. Dataverse file storage. Check out this step-by-step guide on how to enable the SharePoint integration for model-driven Power Apps.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Want to track your fitness goals using an app?
by Hardit Bhatia
What better way to track your fitness goals than using a Canvas app?

😎 Power Automate

Create a DevOps Bug when flow fails
by Asmaa Bouhmidi
If you are a Power Automate developer, you must have encountered scenarios where a deployed flow in production fails unexpectedly. In most cases, you might not become aware of this failure at the moment it occurs.This post from Asmaa shows you how to handle flow failures by triggering a specific action upon failure.

Activate and Deactivate Features in SharePoint form Power Automate Flows
by Pieter Veenstra
An intersting article where you can learn how to activate and deactive SharePoint features via Power Automate flows.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Microsoft Entra ID Security Groups Management
by Inogic
A quick walkthrough of the Microsoft Entra ID security group and team members’ management.

Let’s learn about the Dataflows
by Temmy Raharjo
Temmy shares his experience with Dataflows with an example of how you could sync data from one Dataverse environment to another using them.

🤖 Co-Pilot

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 extensibility options
by Low Code Lewis
So are you looking forward to the time when you'll be rolling out Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in your organization, or perhaps you're an enterprise.