Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #45

🥇 Cover Story

In this article Matt will show you a full example of how to build mobile Power Apps with an offline mode.

👍 Power Platform

Now Power BI can access live data from Dataverse using the TDS endpoint, see how you can migrate charts from legacy Dynamics dashboards

Custom API allows us to define our custom messages that can be called from web services, similar to Custom Actions. Nishant shows us how to create these in a step-by-step guide.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Recently Microsoft released a new feature and Deepesh tried his hands on this exciting feature.

Edit a parent record from child record form. Editable Quick view form control in Dynamics 365/ CDS using Form Component control.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Recently Microsoft has released the preview of the new horizontal and vertical container in the Canvas apps layout. This post shows how to effectively use them to create a responsive canvas apps.

In this blog, we will see how we can leverage the potential of Relevance search in the Canvas app. This is part 2 of a 2-part blog post.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Linn explores how you can retrieve more than 100,000 records in cloud flows.

In this blog, we will see how to post the message to Microsoft Teams using Incoming Webhook.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

In this article you will learn how to add both a react app as well as tests to an existing TypeScript project for Dataverse

When using an array, you will find that you have to do long iterations in many situations. Learn all the different and easy way to deal with arrays.

⛅ Around Azure

Azure API Management is an Azure service to create consistent API gateways for secure, scalable access for back-end applications and services. Nishant demonstrates utilizing Dataverse API in APIM.

In this post, we will look at how to use the Kudu API and PowerShell to deploy Azure App Services. This can be useful if you want to automate deployments rather than manually logging into the Kudu portal and performing deployments manually.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Next Level TDD for Dataverse with XrmMockup - Magnus Gether Sørensen

Execute Privilege Name property of Custom API in Dataverse - Nishant Rana

{Solved} Key properties cannot have null values error when performing aggregate queries using List records step in Power Automate - Debajit Dutta

Use Relevance Search API in Power Automate - Inogic

FormatDateTime function in a Cloud Flow - Priyesh Wagh

User-Local behavior with Date-Only format… what’s that for? - Alex Shlega

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Dataverse has had custom actions for some time now, and now, a similar new tool is available to Dataverse developer, Custom APIs. XrmToolCast crew brought in David Rivard on to not only help define what they are, but to talk about his new tool.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Natraj Yegnaraman #ProCodeNoCodeUnite@RajYRaman

You know and love @XrmToolBox and rightly so. @linqpad also deserves the love of every #PowerApps developer in equal measure. Quick demo of the Dataverse Driver for LINQPad. This will be a great addition to your toolkit. Source/Documentation: https://t.co/znsmrGkoE6 https://t.co/fjB4WPTLTh

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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