🥇 Cover Story

Joe knocks it out of the park by showing us how to use Playwright for Power Apps Automated Testing.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Use NASA Image of the Day (APOD) API inside Power Automate to create visually rich and appealing In-App Notifications for Power Platform model-driven apps.

Carina highlights the importance of data quality in any application, including tips on Duplicate management.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Debajit digs deep to complete a common requirement.

Temmy drives through how to connect a Canvas app utilising a Swagger API

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Matt shows us how to hide passwords in Power Automate flow by using Azure Key Vault and securing flow inputs and outputs.

When you have an app that has a current location and a destination postcode and you want to calculate travel distances, you could use Power Automate.

I was inspired reading Alex Shlega and Hiroaki Nagao ’s posts on using code with custom connections. So I set out to give it a go and work on another common problem I have: Parse CSV First a picture showing you how it works.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Inogic shares with us a solution to create a multi-select control in PCF.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Roohi Shaikh shows how you can link Power Virtual Agents and any REST API using Power Automate

This video on is a step-by-step tutorial on performing Bulk Data Operations in PowerApps with a SharePoint List. We will bulk create, update, copy, delete & ...

🔨 Tools & Components

Tip #1416: Power Platform PowerShell module includes unapproved verbs

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Chris Lloyd-Jones walks through creating GitHub Actions to automate your development cycle.

⛅ Around Azure

Even though each Logic App action has a retry policy, after a certain number of retries, the Logic App engine gives up and fails the whole execution. In these scenarios the Logic App needs to be re-run. You can use Power Automate to handle this scenario. You can download the Power Automate solution from https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvzjERKFC6gOx3-NptgmlSyD4FVu?e=vwxyAE…

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to create in-app Notifications - Sara Lagerquist

C# in custom Connector to Dataverse - Alex Shelga

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays review the last 2 weeks

Usage of Subtraction Function - Venkata Subbarao Polisetty

Superchrge your Patch Function - JR-BejeweledOne

Share Power Apps with Internal or External users - Deepak Shrivastava

Display Canvas Apps full screen - Mehdi El Amri

Virtual Entities in Dataverse - XRM Vision

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Daryl and Scott interview Matt Beard, fellow MVP and a data nerd, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse Format Changer. 

🐤 Tweets of the week

Matt Bierner @mattbierner

Today's @code setting: Copy relative path separator Override the path separator used in file paths copied from the explorer or tabs Especially helpful on Windows for using / instead of \ in copied paths #code2020 https://t.co/Vvgo9SzRpf

1:05 AM ∙ Jan 19, 2023

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