Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #14

🥇 Cover Story

One of the perennial problems is to access formContext in webresources embedded inside your form. So, let’s see how you can do this.…

👍 Power Platform Updates

I wanted to do something with Typescript and Angular, I figured why would not I try creating a completely custom portal from scratch using Angular, TypeScript, Web API, etc.

A look at Control flow, Iteration flow, Template, and CDS Liquid Tags by Victor Dantas

Automating rolling out my bot to users so they can get notifications without having to ask

💎 Common Data Service

Most of our Xrm API’s, especially the ones which interact with data using Xrm.WebApi are promises. To handle the result, we need to implement callbacks using the .then() construct.

Anyone who has spent a considerable length of time working with virtual entities in D365/CDS will have their collection of war stories to share.

Today's question is around the triggering a flow from an access team. Seems simple as it is but you need to dig a bit more to perform the full process.

🏋️‍♂️ PowerApps & Power Automate

Recently, we had a requirement to execute PowerAutomate on click of a button on Lead record. In this post, we'll see how to do that.

There was a tweet asking if it was possible to change a Users Business Unit without losing their Security Roles. In this post, we'll see how to do that.

Power Automate Flows has a very powerful feature that helps cover few limitations of plugins and workflows and thereby reduce unnecessary execution of the flows.

🚀 PowerApps Component Framework (PCF)

Power Apps CLI are missing some objects that are present API. But you can access them. CAUTION!!

I made some research. I'll try to put together what I've found out about datasets in PCF

We have several types of properties that we can add to our control as input parameters. In this blog Paul Nieuwelaar looks at how to add Enum to input type.

🔨 Tools & Components

I am glad to present my ControlAnimator component which will allow you to add some nice animations to your #PowerApps

A control that add emoji reaction capabilities to Model-Driven Apps.

A control to upload a file from your computer into a Canvas App and return the Data Url or the Text of the file.

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode we interview Ivan Ficko, the Dynamics Ninja, about his new tool, the Yeoman Pcf Generator.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Scott Durow #ProCodeNoCodeUnite @ScottDurow

@linnzawwin @ddlabar You can return a Promise<boolean> from a Ribbon Enable Rule Custom Action function in the UCI. This allows you to use the WebApi.

🤩 Thanks for reading

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