Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #38

🥇 Cover Story

In this post Jerry is going to explain how you can implement a more granular control of which user account gets charged for Microsoft Dataverse CRUD API calls.

👍 Power Platform

Make sure you don't lose progress on the online Adaptive Cards Designer. Use Adaptive Code Studio Extension - Check this post!

Matt B. shows us how to move the apps using solutions between two Dataverse for Teams environment.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

As correctly pointed out by Alex, the common problem most of us face is infinite execution loop of plugins and workflows. But in his post he shows us a trick to avoid such scenarios. This post lead to another post so do read that as well.

Want to learn how to cache data on a form for same user? Alex describes us the process with a perfect example.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this two part series Matt will show you how to make a calendar in Power Apps add events and then display them on the calendar.

Éric presents us his blog where he shows us the tricks to create complex apps using various functions. He explains each of those functions for better understanding.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

At times, getting Outputs is not exactly as desired. And sometimes, it doesn't show up entirely. Here's how you can use Outputs() function from Power Automate and parse using Parse JSON function.

Debajit shows us how to remove duplicates from an array in Power Automate flow using expressions.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Tae has written her own little TypeScript utility classes and methods to perform batch operations without using the ExecuteMultiple Web API method.

Diana shows us a quick debugging techniques when a code component is deployed to a model-driven or canvas apps.

⛅ Around Azure

You can often add more value to your data by combining it with other sources to produce an enriched data set. Azure Data Factory can help with combining them. Mark explores the process of combining Dataverse data into Azure Data Factory.

Nishant demonstrates us the methodology for reading secrets from Azure Key Vault using SecretClient class.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to Use DataSourceInfo in Canvas App - Inogic

Shared variables in Dataverse plugins - Alex Shlega

Understanding Table Distribution & Index Types in Azure Synapse Analytics - Joe Griffin

The data returned by the service is invalid - CountRows() function in PowerApps - Debajit Dutta

The target in the Launch function in Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra

How to Add an Existing Record into a Subgrid in Dynamics 365 CRM Using EasyRepro - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Fellow MVP Neil Benson needed some help on a project and decided to use a lifeline and called Daryl and Jonas to ask what tools to use to document a system for a technical assessment. XrmToolCast decided to record the phone call for all to enjoy.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Matthew Devaney | MVP | #PowerAddicts @mattbdevaney

#PowerAppsTip 🔥🔥 You can make a time picker with only one-line of code😲 Items property of a dropdown: ForAll(Sequence(96), Time(0,Value*15-15,0)) #PowerApps #PowerAddicts @MSPowerApps https://t.co/rmb7W2KNKk

Dawid Ziolkowski #PowerAddict #GlobalCon4 @365CornerDavid

#PowerAutomateTip #FlowTip To add some security of sensitive data you can use: ✅Secure Inputs ✅Secure Outputs That will 'Hide' the data in the Run History / Execution list. #PowerAddicts #FlowFam As always hope it will be useful 🤩 https://t.co/fS78MBgifJ

🤩 Thanks for reading

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