Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #10

🥇 Cover Story

Microsoft have added a (preview) way of querying your CDS data using T-SQL, which anyone familiar with SQL Server will already know.

👍 Power Platform Updates

Learn how you can capture and view signature in Power Apps Portal

For a nicer UX, I will show you how to display the actions as icons within the list row.

Deep dive into the details of the PowerApps and Power Platform DevOps tools and scripts that we use to provide our Application Lifecycle management.

💎 Common Data Service

Apps created prior to November 2019 would still be using the old CDS connector. To switch to the new connector, the steps are in the blog.

This post is a part of a series of posts for Customer Service. I need to automatically add a signature. Am I really the only one having these problems…?

In Unified Interface, we can now show such application-level notification using addGlobalNotification client API

🏋️‍♂️ Power Apps & Power Automate

Best Practice and tutorial how to create multi-language Canvas Apps as a type of Power Apps including administration through a Model-Driven App

Keyboard shortcuts for canvas apps

Control access to these platforms by ensuring only authorized users have access to critical systems.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

This post demonstrates how the paging API works in Model and Canvas and highlights the differences.

There are often situations where data from other Microsoft 365 services are required from within your model-driven Power Apps.

A PCF component is isolated in a sandbox. That's it. I totally understand that the components has to be in "isolation", but what if they need to "tell" more?

🔨 Tools & Components

A control to split a text based on a custom separator.

A control to allow users to enter hours and minutes manually, by clicking the chevrons or manually entering time up to 24 hours.

A control to directly email a screenshot from a Canvas App.

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow

🐤 Tweet of the week

April Dunnam | MVP | #PowerAddict @aprildunnam

This is a golden nugget of info for #PowerApps Performance @rezadorrani just gave. Don't use First(Filter()) if you are returning a single item! Use Lookup Instead, much faster! #O365Nashville https://t.co/OmH9RlMXf0

🤩 Thanks for reading

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