Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #61

🥇 Cover Story

In this post, we will explore how to implement a custom connector using the OAuth 2.0 on-behalf-of flow.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Deepesh had a client requirement to prevent auto save on certain entities. He demonstrates how he achieved it in this blog.

Mehdi explores the dark-side by showing us an unsupported customization to run JavaScript when loading a model-driven app.

Temmy explains his strategy where data model can be dynamic based on the JSON implementation.

Guido dives into how you can make the transition from old CrmServiceClient to new ServiceClient and also explains what are the pros/cons.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

It is important to perform patch function error handling In Power Apps any time you are updating records in a datasource.

Flexible height galleries, although useful, can be painful if you want to calculate the exact height. Learn how to do that!

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Mohd. Ashiq demonstrates us a nice way to resubmitting our failed flows.

Ever wanted to automate assigning or removing security roles from users then Dineshkumar got you covered in this post.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

This was easier then I thought. Super easy trick by Debajit to show hide button on grid in Power Apps Portals.

How to build a process using Visual Studio Code that allows you to visualize and analyze a Power BI dataset refresh in real-time.

🔨 Tools & Components

This is mainly a bug fix release based on reports from users and telemetry. If you’ve hit problems running queries with SQL 4 CDS v5, please update to v5.1 and try again.

⛅ Around Microsoft Graph

Our own guest newsletter editor, Carl, explains the process of adding external users to a Microsoft Team. Oh and it goes through an approval process as well.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Update Resolved and Cancelled Cases Programmatically - Inogic

Power Automate: finding Dataverse environment URL -  Thomas Sandsør

Better management of SharePoint Document Libraries for Dynamics 365 - Elaiza Benitez

How to get Choice label value from Dataverse in Power Automate - Debajit Dutta

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode, Daryl & Scott talk to brand new baby MVP Mark Carrington, creator of the SQL 4 CDS XTB tool, about his new improvements.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Natraj Yegnaraman @RajYRaman

How do you get rid of the borders in PCF Fabric UI ComboBox? IComboBoxStyles does not seem to work. #pcfchamps https://t.co/Ha0FKDFCJr

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