Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #32

🥇 Cover Story

Diana shows us an awesome transformation of Forms into Dialogs using Xrm SDK methods. Also, diving into a possibility of creating a wizard like dialog.

👍 Power Platform

Priyesh walks us through how you can work on one of the unmanaged solution import failures in Power Platform admin centers.

Debajit explores the capability to pass an array to Power Automate from any Power Apps and processing the array data.

💎 Model Driven Apps & CDS

There are a number of client APIs provided by Microsoft that helps developers work seamlessly with CDS. One such useful method is getPageContext() in Xrm.Utility that can be used to get page context as an object representing the page. In this blog, we will see how we can use this method.

Here's how to remove the Security Warning from Email Messages records in Dynamics 365. OrgDbSettings tweak!

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Are you disappointed by the lack of fonts available in Power Apps? In this article Matt will show how to use custom fonts in your Power Apps.

Learn how to overcome 2000 items limit using Power Apps Collect function by using collection in batches.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

One of Mike's colleague had a requirement was validating an email address when importing records into CDS. So he wrote a blog by using Regular Expression to accomplish this scenario.

In this blog, we will explore how to set a lookup field as null while mapping the Lookup field with another record’s lookup field which has null value.

Did you know that Power Automate has a Date Time action that can easily convert, and format time zones in one action? Josh shows us how to use this action.

Whenever we want to extract part of a string, a common question comes to mind - how do we achieve this in Power Automate. Recent updates now allow us to use text functions. Let us see how.

🔨 Tools & Components

Sorry, the blog has been quiet, there is only so much time to spend on out of work activities, and this tool has been my time sink in the last 6 weeks. Not complaining, loved getting back to my routes.

A control to display as cards the amount of records and its label. They are based on the options from an optionset selected in the configuration.

🎮 Interesting Tech Articles

Understand what is Tailwind and how to use it in your React App.

KingswaySoft provides 3 components specific to Azure Blog Storage. Nishant demonstrates on how to use them in SSIS.

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode Daryl & Jonas talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker talking about how their introduction to tools for the power platform. 

In this episode Daryl & Jonas continue their talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker. 

🐤 Tweets of the week

Matt Bierner @mattbierner

Today's @code tip: @ modified Search @ modified in the settings editor to see a list of the settings that you have changed Works for both user and workspace settings, and can be combined with other search filters #code2020 https://t.co/tBsLE9AdxX

🤩 Thanks for reading

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