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Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #71

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Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #71

Danish N.
Jul 21, 2021
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🥇 Cover Story

In this blog, Mehdi unveils one of the new features that will be available in the Power Platform Wave 2 2021 release, it is about the side panel that appears on the right side of an MDA.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Environment Variables though are a nifty new feature within Microsoft Dataverse getting the values could be tough. Joe shows us how to overcome this issue in this post.

Last week we saw some posts about Polymorphic lookups. This time Nishant shows us how to deal with them via C# code.

Out of the box option for tracing is limited and AppInsights can only log so much. Another option is to log in to Dataverse but that consumes space. Logging into Cosmos DB sounds interesting.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Power Apps component libraries are now the recommended way to share components. Matt will show you how to make a Power Apps component library.

Don't annoy or confuse your users with a consent popup. Learn how to bypass the consent popup for all of your users on an app.

Want to perform a NULL check on the data then this post from Debajit will help you resolve your issue.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In this blog, Leon Armston will show you how to avoid creating unnecessary apply to each loops in Power Automate which can slow down your flow and make it harder.

Business requirement: Email notification to be sent to all the Queue Members on assigning a Case to Queue. Solution: this post from Deepesh.

SharePoint connector in cloud flow provides most of the features but certain actions are missing that can be accomplished by using SharePoint API in cloud flow.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this post, Carl shows us the potential issues you can run into using Virtual Tables with the OData provider and how you can resolve them. Take a look at this post.

Did you know that Dataverse will check if a string field is a date and try to truncate it before it saves it? Neither did Phil until this post. Read this post to know more.

🔨 Tools & Components

Julien Miquel has built a connector that lets you integrate with Shopify.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

'Required' Fields in Power Apps - Juli Reid

Sample ClientId and RedirectUri for quick prototyping for Dataverse - Nishant Rana

Connecting an OData Azure App Service to Virtual Tables in the Power Platform - Carl de Souza

Azure Key Vault in Power Automate cloud flow – Could not retrieve values - Mohd. Ashiq Faleel

Use of Print function in Canvas Apps - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

XrmToolCast challenged David Rivard to create a tool for Managing Custom APIs. Not only did he accept that challenge and created, but he has also extended it to create another one, both of which were covered on this show.

💖 GitHub Sponsors

Thanks to the following people for being the sponsors:

🏆 Platinum - AgileXRM

🥇 Gold - Sudhakar Deenadayalan

🥉 Bronze - Linn Zaw Win

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