Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #30

🥇 Cover Story

Learn how to easily change the owners of canvas apps and power automate flows using PowerShell Cmdlets

👍 Power Platform

In this blog, you will learn how to use query strings between pages in PowerApps Portals.

Olena explains the process on how to query the data in CDS using Web Api from Dataflows.

💎 Model Driven Apps

Trying to achieve a true ALM process using Power Automate or Power Apps has always been a struggle. Fortunately, we are starting to see some new capability, such as Connection References

Debajit usually comes across a question on how to grant external users access to CDS and he came around to explain this process in his blog.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article Matt shows you simple way to send formatted emails from Power Apps by using Microsoft Outlook to generate the HTML.

Here's how you can enhance CDS connected Form by showing some Dynamics 365 field metadata in your Canvas Power!

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

If you are having this requirement, you are not alone. Since the time Microsoft have released the capability to execute a flow as a Business process flow step in CDS, customers and consultants alike are exploring the various possibilities on how this feature can be leveraged.

Thanura shares his wonderful and useful learning when working with large CDS datasets. If you are in the same boat as Thanura then it is a must read.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework

Natraj shows us a nice way to quickly create your new PCF Component in GitHub using Field and Dataset Template.

In this blog post Diana talks about how she has implemented the paging and how she integrated it in the footer.

🔨 Tools & Components

One of the most requested features of Model-Driven Apps ‘back in the day’ was to edit the popup dialog boxes that do actions such as Closing Opportunities or Cases. These were ‘special’ dialogs that had a fixed user interface.

This is an AddOn available in Microsoft AppSource that allows you customize Icons and Tooltips on views and sub-grids without help from your developer.

🎮 All Tech

Through the Dynamic Data Masking feature in SQL Server, we can hide the sensitive data by masking the data from the user who does not have permissions. (Here the data in the database is not changed). There are 4 different functions to do that – default – Entire column is masked. partial – only works…

30 Days of React challenge is a step by step guide to learn React in 30 days. This challenge needs an intermediate level of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge. It is recommended to feel good at JavaScript before you start to React.

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

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💡 Other Interesting Articles

Paginated report in PowerBi - not ready yet - Alex S.

Querying metadata with FetchXML - Mark C.

Display external webpage in model-driven app - Debajit D.

Dataset PCF using Fluent UI: Full Height - Diana B.

Always encrypt feature in SQL - Nishant R.

🤩 Thanks for reading

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