Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #22

🥇 Cover Story

A technical deep dive into how we leveraged Power Automate to integrate Twitter with a range of Azure services. The first part is creating an immersive, AI enriched social media monitoring and analysis model driven app.

💎 Common Data Service

Mark does a deep-dive to understand how T-SQL works internally so it can be used correctly. Do read the disclaimer!

In this blog we will explore how to pass ‘Xrm’ and ‘formContext’ in HTML pages using the ‘getContentWindow’ client API in Unified Interface.

Use Application Users for authenticating with various other apps. It is the most secured way. This blogs explains how we can setup such users in Dataflex Pro (CDS)

🏋️‍♂️ Power Apps

This is a part two of series of blogs by Amey. The second part is creating an immersive, AI enriched social media monitoring and analysis model driven app. Retrieving messages from an Azure queue which is full of AI enriched data and displaying it to our users in meaningful and enjoyable ways.

A role-based user interface in Power Apps gives employees, managers and administrators different access to data and abilities in the same app

Oleksandr plays with the new feature - Power Apps Portal Web API. In this deep dive he explains the security, authentication, usage and some examples.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In this blog Linn Zaw Win explains how to use the output from an expanded query in CDS connector in subsequent actions

Ben Vollmer had asked if it was possible to convert a UTC datetime value to Unix time but it is not achievable OOB. Ryan was able to make it possible and he explains this in this blog.

This has always been an open question, how do we clear a value from an attribute (undefined) using a flow and this blogs explains how it can be achieved.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Priyesh shows us how to setup PowerShell for Power Platform and recover a deleted environment using PowerShell.

In this post, I've discussed the possibility of using your existing Bot Framework Skills to Power Virtual Agents hosted in different tenants.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

In this blog, we’ll see how to programmatically get the record value in the context along with the other column values.

🔨 Tools & Components

A control to use @ to mention users and notify them using email.

A control to display a button to perform an action.

A control to show the Option Sets with the colors customized using the standard experience inside a grid.

🎮 All Tech

Hello Amigos!!! React or React JS is a JavaScript front-end library from Facebook which lets you cre... Tagged with react, javascript, webdev, beginners.

We'll learn how to build a flex box layout from scratch using two approaches. Tagged with beginners, tutorial, css, career.

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Listen and learn with Andrew Butenko on the MVP Show talks about his ten years Microsoft MVP journey, his career background and his involvement with PCF!

🐤 Tweets of the week

Brian Dang #BlackLivesMatter ✊🏼 @8bitclassroom

Here's an interesting pattern: ⬜ Use regex to match what you want AND what you don't want when it may overlap. ⬜ Then use Filter() to remove the matches you don't want. Regex becomes much more manageable when augmented by other #PowerApps functions. https://t.co/6c2Xzyjlnt

🤩 Thanks for reading

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