Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #78

🥇 Cover Story

An excellent process described by Linn that helps you to create on-demand like cloud flows that are supported as solution components.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Debajit tries his hands on the new Side-Panel API and shows us how you can have a split window-view in model-driven apps using simple JavaScript.

Use the low-code process to create an in-app notification for model-driven apps.

Are the entity-relationship maps not getting imported from solution import? Then check out this tip.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

With the free QuickChart API we can extend Power Apps to use over 20 different chart types have and more options for their appearance.

In this blog post, Ritika will show you a trick that you can follow to create a good user experience for your end-users in a canvas app by auto-incrementing the height of controls that do not support the "Auto Height" property.

Ever wanted to generate a QR Code in canvas apps? Debajit got you covered in this post.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Mehdi shows us how you can create custom connectors that extend Dataverse triggers.

How to ask users for flow inputs from a drop-down list in model-driven apps? Check this post from Amey.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Diana is back with her blog continuing her journey in Custom Pages and what has changed since she last blogged about it.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Olena demonstrates to us the new portal changes that solve the security misconfigurations and how it affects all.

George creates a nice PowerShell script that will highlight all the security issues in your Portal with nice green, yellow & red colors. And it is easy to run using Windows PowerShell ISE as well.

🔨 Tools & Components

Our very own Carl Cookson improved Tanguy's Access Checker tool which now shows how the access was granted to the user. Nice going, Carl!!

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Build a landing page in using FlexBox, Grid and other CSS properties. Ultimate tutorial.

If you are working with GitHub then you might wanna know these tips and tricks. I liked the Octotree and keyboard tags. But with the ability to use . on any GitHub repo actually reduces the use of Octotree.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Enhanced user experience with new Modern Control on Subject Entity - Inogic

How to get the created record id and other details using Patch in Power Apps Canvas apps? - Debajit Dutta

Changing the position of the WYSWYG editor buttons - Tip of the Day

How to make a Phone field clickable in Power Apps Canvas apps? - Debajit Dutta

CRM Plugin Development: Exploring File and Image DataType - Temmy Raharjo

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Andrew Butenko 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @a33ik

Don’t use #dataverse #customapi with classic workflows. Everything looks good when it is used in one environment. Once it was moved to the other environment it doesn’t work anymore.

Phil Topness @topness

🤩 https://t.co/DFyZ5Bi4qo

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