Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #59

🥇 Cover Story

Ashiq share his learnings on GraphQL and how to call them in Power Automate. Read what Ashiq learnt in this post.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Joe didn't create any custom actions but now he tries his hands on Custom API which was recently added to Microsoft Dataverse. Learn how his experience was.

In this blog post Benedikt will explain the standard folder structure of a Dataverse project he tends to use when starting a new assignment.

Mehdi provides us an insight in how to execute a client side function that will work on all forms without having to register it manually on each individual form.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Your Canvas apps can look beautiful! Luise shows you three 5 minute tricks to make your Power Apps prettier.

In this #PowerShot, Yash will show you how to work with polymorphic data in canvas apps.

This post will help you identify different types of debugging capabilities you can implement in canvas apps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Yet another how-to from Debajit. In this post, he explains the process to retrieving the subtraction of two date time objects.

In Power Automate Select vs Append to String you will learn how to replace Append to string action in loop with much faster Select action.

🔨 Tools & Components

Carl's never-ending journey to document everything led to improving the existing SiteMap Editor; where he implemented a way to export the data in an excel. This post provides a detailed walkthrough of that functionality.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

We will learn how to request MS Graph with silent flow and device code flow using NodeJs backend. As a demo, we request the Teams status.

Why useFetch? It's very common to fetch data when the user goes to a certain page.

C# 9 brings with it Record types. Learn about the caveats when applying this type to your codebase to avoid any potential pitfalls. C# examples included.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Querying Virtual Entities - Mark Carrington

Learn how to use new Post Save event in Dataverse - Inogic

Client Scripting: addCustomFilter and addPreSearch - Temmy Raharjo

Use feature flags in your plugins - Tanguy Touzard

Form component field validations on secondary tabs - Alex Shlega

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk with long time fellow MVP, Guido Preite. Guido is the caretaker of the PCF Gallery as well as a the creator of the Dependent Option Set Manager. 

🐤 Tweets of the week

David Rivard @david_rivard

@TanguyTOUZARD @DanzMaverick @PCFBuilder Amazing! 🤩 Are you using any kind of typescript 'early bound' generator to wrap your custom API calls. Personally, I use this library from master @ScottDurow I would add that to the 'Thank you' list 🙏https://t.co/zIfoRNJNmc

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