Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #12

🥇 Cover Story

Now, at the most recent Microsoft Business Applications Summit, a new method was announced that I was finally able to try out. The method is using the new…

👍 Power Platform Updates

In this blog, we will see how we can navigate to login page after once we logout from any page in Microsoft Portal.

In this post, I will walk through the steps required to build a Dataflow in CDS to sync data between an external datasource and CDS.

Omnichannel for customer service contains a number of features to help improve agent productivity. In this post I will explore two of these - Agent scripts and Macros.

💎 Common Data Service

A question that I keep getting is, "Can I perform nested queries using $expand query option with the Dynamics 365 Web API?". The answer is, yes.

Nishant Rana looks into how to get user's last logon time using FetchXml.

Learn about supported way to pass formContext and XRM to your html webresource

🏋️‍♂️ PowerApps & Power Automate

After spending close to 2 hours trying to figure out why code wasn't setting a lookup field in CDS to blank. Let's look who the culprit was..

Check how you can put exit, confirm before exit and logout features in your Canvas Power Apps.

🔨 Tools & Components

Data Spawner component is part of KingswaySoft's SSIS Productivity Pack.

Undo changes / mistakes with a single click. Tracks all changes

A control to display a notification or a helpful message to the user in a section. This should avoid to create static web resource to display information.

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow to discuss. This is part 2 of a 2 part episode.

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Matthew Devaney @mattbdevaney

#PowerApps #LifeHacks #2 🔥 Want a quick visual of the colors in your theme? Store them in a variable then type varColors🎨in the formula bar. Set(varColors, { P1: RGBA(224,57,18,1), S1: RGBA(220, 153, 153, 1) } ) What's next @rezadorrani? @HoustonPowerUG https://t.co/9jCVKQb95k

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