🥇 Cover Story

Dark mode, you said? Victor shows us how to achieve changing the theme between light and dark mode using a toggle button in Power Apps Portals.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this blog, we will look at how we can display different business process flow based on user security role in Dataverse.

This is the first part where the post explains how to define Environment Variables along with import & export.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

If you were thinking that Power Apps Canvas Apps and Dataverse for Teams Canvas Apps are just the same – but with a different license and container – well whilst it is mostly true, there is a very big difference. Scott explains that in this post.

In this article Matt will show you how to make Power Apps that take advantage of SharePoint list relationships.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In this post, Debajit shows us how to query data in Dataverse using API and Http connector in Power Automate Cloud Flows.

Is your IF condition always evaluating to False? Josh will show a quick workaround to debug and find out what is happening in expression.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Portals does not allow multi-select choices so Ragavan provides us with a nice way to making that possible.

Another post on custom API. This time from Temmy where he provides a simple straight-forward implementation of custom API.

🔨 Tools & Components

Working with Entity Permissions for Power Apps Portals is not always smooth. This new tool lets you visually work with the different types of permissions and their hierarchies.

I am please to release new version of PCF Builder for XrmToolBox. This time focusing more on creation and deployment of Microsoft Dataverse solution files.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Implementations & explanations for custom React Hooks like usePrevious, useMedia, useDeepCompareEffect & more

This new tutorial will show you everything you need to know about React Hooks from scratch.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

The power of Sequence() when used to collect >2000 records into your app – Eddie Eales

How to Show Images Uploaded by File or Image Type Field in Power BI Report – Inogic

How to Add/ Remove property from a JSON object dynamically using Power Automate – Debajit Dutta

Power Apps and Cookies, Not the kind you eat! – Juli Reid

Display Custom Error Message on PowerApps Portal – Vaishali Vyas

Omnichannel for Customer Service : Custom Context Variables – Tricia Sinclair

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Nick and Nick are joined by special guests Ulrikke Akerbæk and Franco Musso to discuss new portal features and how to build a Power Apps portals that doesn't look like a portal.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Joris Kalz @joriskalz

Edit Power Apps Portals in Visual Studio Code! I developed a tool to sync the website structure of Power App Portals with a local file system: https://t.co/BcCsbDA4LF This makes it super easy to integrate libs like #AlpineJS or #Tailwindcss #PowerApps #Portals #PowerPlatform https://t.co/NZwwOIH37H

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