Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #76

🥇 Cover Story

Organizing items into groups makes their meaning easier to understand. Matt will show you how to group the items in a Power Apps gallery.

🌐 Portal Security

The internet lit up a bit yesterday. And based on that our portal hero Nick Doelman shares his thoughts on how to go about locking the doors of your portal security.

Tie up those loose ends in your Power Apps Portal configurations by following this simple steps.

Another in-depth great article from George Doubinski on Portal security.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Always try to follow the DRY principle and this is exactly what Temmy has shown in this post as to how we can improve the logging mechanism without violating DRY principles.

The new command bar meets Smart button. Learn from Scott how you can use Smart buttons in new command bar tool.

In this release, it is now possible to create a lookup field that has a multi-entity/table relationship but you need a code to do that. Check this post to get the code.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this post, Jamie is going to show you how you can use SVG to create an analog clock.

In this post, Carlos shows us how we can determine sensitive information in a data using a reusable control.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

I have used this tip as soon as I was enlightened by the great community folks. And yes it works.

Dineshkumar shows us how to read the table rows from an excel file using Power Automate cloud flows.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

The updateView method is triggered only when the PCF control is refreshed or rendered and shows us the updated data on our control.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

As you take software development more seriously, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) becomes more important. Learn step 1 in this post.

Troy dives into the process of creating an independent publisher custom connector.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

This post discusses how to automate all the event management processes to run a hackathon, using GitHub Actions, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform.

⛅ Around Azure

In this blog post you will learn how you can create a secret for a App Registration which is valid longer than 24 months.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Returning All Form Controls via JavaScript - Joe Griffin

New User not visible in Dynamics 365 CE – {Quick Tip} - Mahender Pal

Power Automate Fundamentals # 7: Usage of uriQuery Function in Power Automate - Venkata Polisetty

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

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