Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #84

🥇 Cover Story

The most popular example is a company store where items are placed into a shopping cart. In this post, Matt will show you how to create a Power Apps shopping cart.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Target, Pre-Image, Post-Image & now add a plugin message into that mix. Temmy explains a nice way to work through these combinations

Andrew explorers navigateTo function by opening a bulk edit form. Is it supported or unsupported? Check out the post.

A short troubleshooting post to delete the command bar component library from your environment.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Do you find that your queries in filters become complicated? In this post, Pieter shows a way to simplify your queries using Dataverse views.

It does sound like there was something in the server response that was considered “sensitive data”, but what could have happened?

Have you ever wanted to grab a block of Excel data, paste it and display in Power Apps, then patch it to your data source as new records? Check this post.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Learn how to use Site template (Site Design) via Power Automate. Site template gives a lot, connected with Power Automate is even better!

In this fundamental series, Venkata shows us how to use the bool function.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Did this ever happen to you: you’ve developed a PCF, uploaded it, but when you want to customize it for control you don’t find it in the list? If you are lost, then this post will help you get on track.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this article, we will look at the option available for backup support and packaging the bots to share them across environments.

Microsoft has given the ability to create various kinds of environments in the Power Platform. But if sometimes you wanna recover your deleted environment then Deepesh has got you covered.

🔨 Tools & Components

Mark simplified our life by creating this simple but awesome merge permission tool. Try it out in XrmToolBox.

The master of XrmToolBox created a new tool that lets you compare two components. And the rumour is it just took him a couple of hours.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Natraj always has to try different technologies and this time he builds a bot on Google Assistance using Azure and Power Automate. Perfect use-case.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

JavaScript and Business Rules - Neil Parkhurst

[SOLVED] Subcomponent cannot be added to the solution because the root component Template is missing - Vaishali Vyas

How to search users from Office365 in Power Apps Canvas app - Debajit Dutta

Open URL in PowerApps/Dataverse form Using JavaScript - Ram Prakash

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Jordi Montaña@jordimontana

The ability to dev & test the backend of a web portal without the need to even see the frontend is magic! Thanks to @FakeXrmEasy ! https://t.co/qOPF0EP8jn

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

Oleg Kyrylchuk@okyrylchuk

In .NET 6, Parallel.ForEachAsync has been finally added 🥳 It allows you to control the degree of parallelism for scheduled asynchronous work. #dotnet6 #coding #devcommunity https://t.co/ShmPHgOmAW

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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