Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #53

In case you missed it, the first official book on Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) was released couple of weeks ago. To get your copy click on the image below.

🥇 Cover Story

Let's explore using Microsoft's Official Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for React from our PCF control

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Are you developing an application with Dynamics 365? Learn more on inversion of control to make you code easier to read.

When working with different currencies in Power Apps or D365, there is no out of the box mechanism to automatically update the exchange rates. Nick shows us how we can automatically update exchange rates in this post.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Don't repeat yourself! In this article I will show you how to make a Power Apps navigation menu component with the same style as MS Teams.

Debajit shows us how to automatically set focus on the first control in PowerApps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

A complete guide to generating and populating a Word Template on Power Automate and also creating a PDF from it!

Trigger flow on specific column update in SharePoint, Trigger condition, when an item is created or modified.

In this post Inogic shows us a nice and elegant way to update multi-select optionset/choices using Power Automate cloud Flows.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Diana demonstrates us the capabilities of using Form Component with a little hack to overcome the limitation of configuring code components in model-driven app.

When you add a dataset code component to a subgrid you lose OOB command bar but with correct options enabled you can show that on the form.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

If you’ve tried reporting on your Dataverse data using Power BI, you’ll probably have noticed you don’t get the labels associated with any option set. Mark will show us how to make that happen using the PowerBI OptionSet Assistant solution

Introduction: This blog explains how to add search, sorting, and pagination functionality to the custom table in PowerApps Portal.

🔨 Tools & Components

Mark released a newer version of his Security Debugger XrmToolBox tool.

CRM on-premise and SharePoint integration without IFD, Add property during upload of file to SharePoint, add metadata to SharePoint file from CRM.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

In this article, Jéssica will teach how to create API using Visual Studio Code.

⛅ Around Azure

This post explains what Azure Bicep is and demonstrates the deployment strategy for Azure Bicep using Azure DevOps.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Dynamics CRM: Implement Virtual Entity – Part 2 - Temmy Raharjo

Parse XML in Power Automate and Create records in Dynamics 365 - Inogic

Create Dynamic Adaptive Cards in Teams using Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra

Quick Tip: Rich Text Control for Canvas and Model-Driven App - Priyesh Wagh

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Linn Zaw Win shares his journey of attempting to document every single tool in the Power Platform universe, focusing first on the tools in the XrmToolBox. Daryl also gives an update on Jonas. 

🐤 Tweets of the week

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Text.Repeat in Power Query = Concat(Sequence(...)) in Power Apps https://t.co/1HjBT8qYb0

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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