Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #36

🥇 Cover Story

Fiddler AutoResponder is a great way to debug the PCF Components. If you don't use it already, Diana will tell you why you should. If you use it already, then Diana wants to know what's your recipe?

👍 Power Platform

One of the projects Inogic's team were working on was to integrate with a third-party API that accepted input in the XML format. This is a quick tip on how to pass XML in the action body when it expects JSON.

In this post, Arafat talks about how can you build a solution to ensure safe distancing in the business using Power Apps and AI Builder

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In Dataverse, when updating a custom lookup field using the Web API, you may run into an “undeclared property” error. Let’s look at how to get around this.

Alex provides us with a script using FetchXML and Web API that will fetch the environment variable values which can be used in any JavaScript project.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article, Matt will show you how to make a re-usable Time Picker component in Power Apps that is mobile-friendly.

As users have become accustomed in many applications, top menus with context-sensitive sub-menus are the norm, but are not part of the standard Power Apps controls.

In this blog, Debajit explains us the easy way to save signature from Pen Input control to file data type in CDS.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

If you ever tried using “List Records” action with the POA table (principalobjectaccess), you might have noticed it’s not showing up in the dropdown list. But Alex shows us how that can be achieved.

In this post, you will learn about how to set the value of the Owner field dynamically based on the value of another row's Owner field.

Timeout in Power Automate Approval is very important. Learn how to terminate Approval when the Timeout is meet.

🎮 Other Interesting Dev Articles

Carl shows us how easy it is to use EasyRepro for running automated UI testing in Dataverse.

Last time Mark showed how to create a data lake, but how do you get data into it? What format should you store it in? All these questions will be answered in this post.

Anton's collection of things to avoid in React components

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Victor Dantas - Microsoft Biz Apps MVP @dantaspower

Free PowerApps Portals Zero to Hero coaching program! I am taking 50 professionals (both Pro-Developers and Citizen Developers) into a Portals learning journey from Jan/Mar 2021. https://t.co/xLA7iu6br8 #powercommunity #365saturday #powerappsportals #ironsharpensiron https://t.co/9zP10LmJG8

Matthew Devaney | MVP | #PowerAddicts @mattbdevaney

#PowerAppsTip 🔥 You can quickly left-align a group of controls by selecting them all and clicking the 'align' command on the home menu. This saves soooo much time 🕑 There's no need to individually position them 🥳 https://t.co/mJYQClJacy

🤩 Thanks for reading

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