Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #83

🥇 Cover Story

How to copy an existing record in Model-driven Power Apps, along with its child records, using the modern command designer & Power Fx formula.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

The release of Power Platform Wave 2 2021 has brought in some amazing features. One of which is the Side Panes and the ability to incorporate multiple panels in them.

You probably know how we can add required components to our solutions – there is an option for that in the maker portal, and it’s easy to use. But Alex explains the things you should be concerned about when using this option.

You can use duplicate detection rules to find duplicate records in Dataverse, but how do you go back and find what records have been merged, or by whom?

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Nishant explains how you can use DataSourceInfo and RecordInfo to check for various permissions in canvas apps.

In this article, Matt will show the easiest way to make a scrollable screen in Power Apps using a vertical container.

Use Aggregate functions like sum or count using GroupBy in canvas apps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

When you develop your flows inside solutions you have the option to use child flows. But are they worth it?

Have you tried the EONET by NASA or also known as Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker connector in Power Automate yet? Pieter explains how to use this in cloud flows.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this article, we will explore displaying rich responses using Adaptive Cards in chatbots built using Power Virtual Agent.

In this post, Kunal explores the option of embedding Power BI on Power Apps portals.

🔨 Tools & Components

Dataverse Metadata in FetchXML Builder - super simply to add! Quoting Jonas "I like smart tools".

FetchXML Builder has always supported users to build queries in a visual way. But, if we want to write queries ourselves we now have IntelliSense which makes the process much faster. Thanks to Mark Carrington for this feature.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Temmy steps away from usual Dataverse dev stuff and explores how he can show Dataverse data in VueJS. Cool stuff!!

This guide is to help you understand the concept of pagination and how to implement it in React.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Tired of creating a new console application to connect to Dynamics 365 CRM/Dataverse? Use a template! - Mehdi El Amri

Dataverse search 101: The new way to search in Dataverse - Deepesh Somani

How to check Dirty Fields in model-driven apps - Ram Prakash

Canvas App Troubleshooting – Part 1 - Tom Jeffries

Usage of Create Array Function in Power Automate - Venkata Polisetty

[VIDEO] Discover hidden treasures inside the Microsoft Teams Sample Apps - Scott Durow

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Daryl and Scott interview Bram Colpaert, a good lazy developer based in Belgium, and chat about one of his tools, the Data Transporter. 

🐤 Tweets of the week

Chris Barber @soi2dev

One of the most commonly overlooked #PowerApps functions is the LastSubmit it provides you the ability to retrieve the last submitted form values. This is a great to use on a success screen to feed back the entered values by a user of your application. https://t.co/14NOP1p8Gg https://t.co/CRoCBxXv4k

K-aaaaah!lid 👻 @buhakmeh

🤯 C# 9 introduces enhanced pattern matching, which can be used to check whether a string is null or empty. 🤔 What do you think? #dotnet @dotnet #csharp https://t.co/nEEa2aoX23

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