Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #24

🥇 Cover Story

Diana does a very thorough deep dive into PCF Control for Dataset and documents her findings when she created her Checklist control.

💎 Model Driven Apps & CDS

In this blog Dharani explains Azure Service Bus integration without writing any code.

Often, even subjects that you profess to know deeply can surprise you, as what happened to me recently as I took a nose-dive into the CDS SDK and discovered a new method

In CDS, entity names can have various different plural extensions, such as “s”, “es”, “ies” etc. Knowing only the singular name, how do you get the plural name?

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Matt shows us a way to get distinct records in a very neat way.

Forgot to make canvas apps solution-aware. No worries you can still include them in a solution later as well. This blog explains how to achieve that.

Adding sort controls to every column in a Power Apps gallery will help users find the information they are looking for more quickly.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Download PDF from Power Apps is possible thanks to Power Automate which create file and link. Method how to Download PDF files directly from Power Apps.

Linn explorer another way to get the flow run history by using a custom connector.

You and your Users can see Get Manager error in Power Apps if the data of Manager are missing. This is solution how you can deal with this error.

🔨 Tools & Components

A control to list the attachments saved as attachments from an Azure Blob Storage.

A control to display all options as clickable buttons with colorful background set inside OptionSet.

🎮 All Tech

This was a submission by Thai to the GitHub Actions x DEV Hackathon!.

While Bootstrap is undoubtedly amazing at what it does, there are some other frameworks that are equally good and may fit your requirements better.

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

We've invited Julia Simpson, an F&O consultant new to the CDS world to gain insights on what it's like to be new to the CDS community, and the tools found within.

🐤 Tweets of the week

PCF Builder@PCFBuilder

🙌@PCFBuilder for @XrmToolBox gets amazing updates. Add preview image and RESX file from the tool. Check how your tool will render on "Add Page" New Feature? https://t.co/ziXzeqWoyC #dynamics365 #powerapps #powerplatform #poweraddicts #pcf #powerappscomponentframework #xrmtoolbox

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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