Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #40

🥇 Cover Story

Linn has nailed two things in his latest blog one perfect images and second the mystery of performing a bound and unbound action with EntityType parameters in Power Automate.

👍 Power Platform

Marvin in his blog explains us how to achieve repeating items when working with adaptive cards using cloud flows.

Omar shows us how we can sync contact details from Dataverse to Azure B2C using cloud flows.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

While working with FetchXML query Mark encountered a strange situation where some values were missing from the result. So he does a deep dive to find the problem and explains it in his latest post.

Clement provides a strategy that will make the Dataverse views accept a criteria which can be provided from multiple sources.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Like Joe, you may have heard of Adaptive Cards, but not really understood how they work. This post shows you how to work with cloud flows to generate adaptive cards.

Aric shows us a nice canvas app that shows users and groups information calling MS Graph API using cloud flows.

🔨 Tools & Components

Mark released a new version 3.1.0 of SQL 4 CDS and is available to download in XrmToolBox. This release includes a lot of performance and usability related changes.

A project on GitHub that contains a set of generic Dataverse Custom APIs which can be installed and consumed on any Dataverse environment.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

The 10 most important modern JavaScript features that will take your React skills to the next level

If you use PowerShell prompt then you should read this blog to enhance your development experience.

⛅ Around Azure

In this post Nishant shows us how to retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vault using Postman.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

The challenges of using external data in the model-driven applications - Alex Shlega

5000 records limit of Fetch XML Query in List records action of CDS connector in Power Automate - Nishant Rana

Get Power Automate Desktop runs details - Tomasz Poszytek

DevOps Dataverse ALM using Power Apps CLI: a source centric approach (Part 2) - Diana Birkelbach

How to trigger Power Automate flows from Model-Driven Power App Business Process Flows (and get a response!) - Nick Doelman

Power Platform for Admins connector in Power Automate - Nishant Rana

Power Apps Portals: Concepts and Cheatsheet - Dani Kahil

Set the subject hierarchy field on Products, Cases, Sales Literature and Articles using EasyRepro - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Brand new MVP Matt Collins-Jones talks about his top 4 tools for creating Cloud Flows, and the tools that we wish existed.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Matt Bierner @mattbierner

Today's @code tip: Format on save Automatically format your code when you save it. No more worrying about checking in unformatted code Use the `editor.formatOnSaveMode" setting to control which lines in a file are formatted #code2020 https://t.co/x0MTmAoIyk

🤩 Thanks for reading

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