Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #72

🥇 Cover Story

Mark was working with a Javascript web resource that needed to use the Dataverse Web API to get some table metadata. This took around 5 seconds to get all the information it needed, but he got that down to about 0.2 seconds with a few changes.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Finally, Temmy found how to call Custom Action from Xrm.WebApi.execute function. The funny thing is, the method has already been in place for a long time.

There’s nothing worse than getting a solution import error within Dynamics 365 Customer Service or Microsoft Dataverse. Joe shows us how to resolve this type of error.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Search is one of the most requested app features. In this article, Matt will show you all a Power Apps search function delegation warning workarounds.

It is easy enough to round (nearest, up, or down) to a specified number of decimal places, but what if you want to round to the nearest half? Check this post for know-how.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Mohd. Ashiq explains to us how to deal with form-data and form-urlencoded content-type in cloud flows.

Did you recently deployed a flow to another environment and ended up breaking your flow. Then read this post from Nick that shows you how to fix it and the reasoning behind it as well.

Getting error when adding DocuSign document to notes in Dataverse? Then look no more, this post will help you resolve the issue.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this blog, we will understand how to create a loader in PowerApps Portal.

In this post, you will learn how to convert an editable form into a read-only form programmatically in Power Apps Portals.

In this blog, Ritika will walk through the different methods through which you can change the links that appear in the header of a Power Apps Portals Application.

🔨 Tools & Components

A new XrmToolBox tool was released that allows you to generate the list of dependent components for multiple tables and export it to an Excel/CSV file.

Jonas has released a new version of Bulk Data Updater. Read through the new feature list.

⛅ Around Azure

In this post, we are going to see how we can utilize Azure API management policies to secure and restrict access to our backend APIs.

Putting the FUN into Azure FUNctions - learn how to combine Logic Apps, Azure Functions & Key Vault

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Finding the newest versions of criteria in a data set - Warren Belz

Primary Key of Activity type entity in a Dataverse connector in Power Automate - Priyesh Wagh

Solved – No function signature for the function with name ‘contains’ matches the specified arguments in Canvas Apps - Nishant Rana

Unexpected security roles - Ramon Tebar

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

FetchXML Builder for #XrmToolBox@FetchXMLBuilder

@georgedude @XrmToolBox This Is What You Want. https://t.co/cioxapexwq

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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