Power Platform Dev Weekly #205

It's MVP Summit week...

Mar 13, 2024

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

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Check out a host of new features and some great blogs in this week’s edition of #PPDevWeekly. Hope you’ll like it.

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🥇 Cover Story

Power Platform CLIx: A New XrmToolBox Tool for CLI
by Michael Ochs
Not everyone is comfortable or familiar with using the command line, especially when it comes to using the XRM tooling cmdlets that are required to connect to and perform actions in Dataverse. Mike has created a tool ‘Power Platform CLIx’ that allows you to explore and run power platform command line functions using a graphical user interface inside of XrmToolBox. I can’t wait to give this a try!

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Protect Confidential Information: Implement Data Masking Strategies Dynamics 365 CRM
by Inogic
Data Masking in Dynamics 365 CRM is essential for safeguarding sensitive personal details from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. Learn how you could create and manage data masking rules in Dynamics 365 CRM.

Dynamics 365 – Knowledge Base Filtering
by Neil Parkhurst
We can search the knowledge base from several points in Dynamics 365. An agent might, for example, use the customer service hub and search for solutions directly from the case form. In this blog post, Niel details out the filtering options that agents can use to control the filters when using the knowledge articles.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

How to create a left aligned responsive gallery
by Hardit Bhatia
Responsiveness is a key feature of any app and there are many ways a maker can implement a responsive gallery. Check out this post from Hardit where he shows one such way with an example.

How do you bulk download attachment files from a Dataverse table?
by Ahmed Salih
Are you managing data in Dataverse tables, and do you have a canvas app for your end-users that they can use to download multiple attachments from these tables? The process can be time-consuming and complex. This blog post introduces a streamlined solution using a Power Apps formula, making your workflow more efficient.

😎 Power Automate

Tip #1447: Use Parse JSON for settings
by Power Platform & Dynamics CRM Tip Of The Day
An excellent tip from George Doubinski on how you can use Parse JSON action and keep your flows compact by combining all related settings in one neat JSON object.

Foolproof Power Automate HTML Table Styling
by Matthew Devaney
You can use Power Automate to an send email with a formatted and styled HTML table. This write-up by Matt shows how you can apply css styling to an HTML table embedded in an email.

🤖 Copilot & AI

A Comprehensive Guide to Create and Edit Topics with Copilot
by Inogic
Normally, in Microsoft Copilot Studio, you can make and change topics. Now, Microsoft added a neat feature called “Create and Edit from Description”. With this, you can just tell it what you need, and it will help you make and improve topics.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Dataflow query timeout issues
by Pieter Veenstra
In case you are experiencing any timeout issues with dataflows, this article by Pieter should assist you with how you could debug and determine the root cause for the timeout issue.

New FetchXML features And documentation
by Mark Carrington
Our very own Mark highlights some of the interesting new FetchXML features released by Microsoft recently.