Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #73

🥇 Cover Story

Power Fx command bar buttons in model-driven apps are the latest exciting feature to be released into preview by the Power Platform team! This post shows you the steps to follow to add a command bar button on a model-driven form

A new feature has recently got into public preview by Microsoft, which can manipulate your requests and/or responses from a custom connector within the Power Automate platform. This is very exciting for all the developers.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

It is an event that occurs after a form gets loaded or on the creation of a record.

In this post, Scott explains us the key differences and common requirements with the new command bar.

Alex just realized this functionality and even I keep forgetting that this exists, but it truly is such a great debugging tool for the command bar. Check out this post to know more.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Matt shows you how to build cascading dropdowns in Power Apps that only show values based on the previous selection in a hierarchy.

Learn how to combine two data sources in canvas apps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

What's the time a flow was triggered locally to the user who triggered a flow? How do we get the local trigger time? Learn in this post.

Here's how you can retrieve metadata of Global Option Sets using Power Automate.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

This week the Custom Pages were released to public preview and Diana tried it out where she showcases us how to create dialogs.

Mehdi uses the same dialog example but goes one step further to determine how to pass data from custom pages to a model-driven app.

This blog will discuss a new component for Power Apps Model-Driven Apps called Custom Page.

With the new updates of the Power Apps Component Framework, now we can develop the PCF control for lookup field. Check this post to learn more.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Love Postman? Then use that knowledge to create a custom connector for all things in Power Platform.

Wanna connect to a Dataverse for Teams environment through KingswaySoft but getting errors? Then look no more as Thomas had you covered.

Phil runs a performance test on a custom connector with code using prime numbers.

Recently Nishant's project had to delete records for one of their entities, and they tried out different combinations. This post describes the optimized way in which deletes operation performs better.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Performance Insights for Model-Driven Apps (Preview) - Priyesh Wagh

Power Automate Fundamentals # 1: Quick Conversion from UTC To IST - Venkata Polisetty

Working with the ExpandCalendar Function in Power BI Desktop for Dataverse - Joe Griffin

Canvas Apps: Create Simple Game – Alphabet Hero - Temmy Raharjo

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

With Scott being on vacation Mike Ochs was nice enough to fill in the co-host seat as XrmToolCast dove into the Albanian Early Bound Tool for the XrmToolBox with Betim Beja.

💖 GitHub Sponsors

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🏆 Platinum - AgileXRM

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