Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #39

🥇 Cover Story

In this blog post you will learn how to set up a TypeScript project for Dataverse from scratch including Webpack, ESLint and Prettier.

👍 Power Platform

As simple as this: if you don't believe in solutions with Dataflow and just copy queries across. Most likely you are going to get an error. Olena shows us how to fix it these errors.

Nick demonstrates us a fairly unknown setting to show menu links to restricted pages on Portals.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Mark does an amazing comparison of different techniques to perform CRUD operation on records and shows us which technique is best suited to improve the performance.

As Alex correctly points out; it's been long since Virtual Entities was given any love so check out Alex's post on virtual entity where he has written a series of posts and this one specifically talks about how to create them.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article Matt will show you how to use the Power Apps add picture control and save the image to a SharePoint Library.

After covering the post on how to create virtual entities, Alex dives into the citizen developer world and used those virtual entities in canvas app.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Are you still updating polymorphic lookups using two actions? Well no more as Linn comes to your rescue. Read his post on how to use condition to update polymorphic lookups in one action.

In this #PowerShot, Yash will show you how to resolve issues that occur when you move a flow out of a solution and try importing it as an independent flow into a different environment or tenant.

Here's a quick tip on how you can set a Lookup Value in a CDS connector. In old vs. new Current Environment connector.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Andrew provides us with a valuable two tips on how to make your PCF component file 15 times smaller.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

How to avoid receiving the TypeScript any type from the Fetch API when retrieving JSON data

In this article Jonas demonstrate how to create a complete CI/CD pipeline for your XrmToolBox tools using GitHub, Visual Studio Team Services, and NuGet.

⛅ Around Azure

Nishant shows us a nice way to retrieve data from Azure Data Lake using query expression.

Elaiza does a deep dive into Microsoft Graph API. She has answered all the questions from what's to how's in her post. Finally she has used this Graph API authentication method in her flow. So cool!

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to overcome the Power Automate Approvals 30 days limit - Dawid Ziolkowski

Create a Team, add Members in Microsoft Teams upon Project and Team Members creation in PSA / Project Operations - Priyesh Wagh

GitHub Self-Hosted Runner inside a container - Natraj Yegnaraman

Automatically re-enable flows that were suspended in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra

Error handling model in Power Automate - Allan De Castro

DevOps Dataverse ALM using Power Apps CLI: a source centric approach - Diana Birkelbach

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Linn Zaw Win 🇲🇲🇳🇿 @LinnZawWin

If your flow is not being triggered even though everything seems fine, double-check the filtering attributes and make sure there is no *𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞* between each column name #PowerAutomate #MicrosoftDataverse https://t.co/P20A4z7uhJ

🤩 Thanks for reading

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