Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #87

🥇 Cover Story

A fantastic blog by Matt where he shows Power Apps maps reach their full potential and can now show a route, include multiple waypoints, optimize a route, and more!

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

You must surely know the possibilities of tracing in Dataverse with the TracingService, but did you know that it is now possible to use Azure tracing? This article covers the steps on how to step it up.

Dates and all the different scenarios associated with it. After writing about it in two blogs Alex still has a few more details to share regarding the date fields in Dataverse.

Can we convert the existing text field to the Auto Number field? Can we convert the auto number field back to the normal text field? Can the auto number field have duplicate values? And more such questions are being answered in this post.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Nested for loop inside Power Apps Canvas apps, scoping issue with ForAll statements inside Power Apps canvas apps.

Are you annoyed with the back button in the Power Apps studio? Do you click that instead of the File button? Learn how you can get rid of it!

Hiro showcases us how to use the newly added feature that lets us add version control to canvas apps and integrate it with GitHub.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Jerry shares his 16 takeaways from the updated docs article – Request limits and allocations.

In this blog post, let us see how to use the content-type x-www-form-urlencoded in a Power Automate custom connector.

This post explains how to consume Microsoft Graph API using Power Automate.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Scott explains why the new pac pcf init command is showing errors on some VS Code instance and how to overcome that error.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Learn how you can use GitHub Actions to deploy your Power Apps Portals

Ragavan shows us how to hide certain elements on the profile page of a Power Apps portal app using JavaScript.

⛅ Around Azure

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Functions OpenAPI Extension.

In this post, Ty covers the process of integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure function app.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Comments in Power Automate flows - Pieter Veenstra

Block Connector access in Power Platform Admin Center - Priyesh Wagh

Share Records with Permission using Web API - Ramprakash

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Troy Taylor (he/him) @troystaylor

TIL: The regex needed to turn underscore delimited strings in VSCode Search into space delimited strings, e.g. for four word strings: #PowerPlatform #PowerAutomate #IndiePubs https://t.co/Ddlnx5TgqA

Natraj Yegnaraman @RajYRaman

You might not need ILMerge in the future for plugin development to merge assemblies. 🔥 https://t.co/gaITrnJ4RW #PowerApps https://t.co/yH95aHqKKj

💖 GitHub Sponsors

Thanks to the following people for being the sponsors:

🥈 Silver - David Wade

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