Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #64

🥇 Cover Story

Data migration can be one of the most time consuming parts of deploying a new CRM system, and all that complex business logic in your shiny new plugins just complicates matters. At best they just slow down the import, or worse they change your historical data according to your latest Continue Reading

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

This blog will discuss a potential upcoming feature that is related to the "OnLoad" event of the forms for a model driven app. The goal is to look at the process of turning this event from synchronous to asynchronous using the "app settings" component. Also, some benefits of implementing an asynchronous logic.

Mehdi shares with us how to use the new perventDefaultOnError() method.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

We can now dynamically select the lists using environment variables in Power Apps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In one of our earlier blog, we had looked at approvals connector that would allow us to send an approval message to select users and wait to receive their response before further action is initiated. The approvals are presented through a power automate mobile app or can be accessed from the flow portal.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Oleksandr wows us again with an awesome collection of toggle buttons that you can use and take any style from MoreToggles.css.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

A few months ago I investigated how using multi threading and batching requests can be used to improve the performance of Dataverse integrations. In the latest release of the Dataverse tooling we’ve now got another option to use – EnableAffinityCookie.

🔨 Tools & Components

A recent update to the solution engine means we now have fewer merge conflicts due to a change in the critical solution.xml file which makes it easier to implement healthy ALM for Power Platform developments.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

I was working on the integration between Dataverse and external Rest API. The scenario is simple as – “Send the JSON object to the API when the record is created”. In order to imp…

⛅ Around Azure

In the vain of Fusion Developers, Chuck details how to create an Azure function and connect to it via a Custom Connector in a Power App.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Microsoft Build 2021 – 10 highlights from a Power Platform perspective - Carina M. Claesson

One-to-one relationships and forms within forms - Jukka Niiranen

Pass Execution Context as a Parameter into a Promise - Olena Grischenko

Edit Portal with Power Platform VS Code Extension

🎥 Videos

You asked, I built - Clippy goes Dataverse - Andrew Butenko

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In the 48th episode we cover everything Microsoft Build, providing you with a recap of what we think is important to know. Join us for the recap, plus, some important community content to watch and listen to.

Power Platform Consultant Sara Lagerquist chats about her life experiences and how she is dealing with her current condition.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Ryan Cunningham @rc_says

Meet the new Power Apps Developer Plan, unveiled today at #MSBuild2021 All the features. All the Dataverse. All the sharing. Free for dev and test. Forever. https://t.co/UtI6W9VeS9 https://t.co/kqHRj4iBOt

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