Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #88

🥇 Cover Story

Everyone hates passwords. But, passwords are easy, because most people use the same password across multiple services. Now, Natraj shows us a better option connecting to Dataverse using Managed Identity.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this post, we will see how to enhance BPF so that a Power Automate Flow can be called in-between stages.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Matt will show you how to apply phone number formatting to a Power Apps text field for any country including the US, Canada, UK, Japan, and India

Have you tried to look up users and gotten no results even when the user exists? Learn how to lookup users in Power Apps the right way!

😎 Power Automate

In the past, we've looked at error handling for flows and this resulted in the Try-Catch pattern. In this post, Pieter focuses on error handling in Child flows.

Debajit shows us how to compare the dates in Power Automate cloud flows.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Enhance the PCF control development experience with the use of webpack plugins.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Mark explores a way to connect on-prem Dynamics instances without using OAuth.

Today we will learn how to set up Virtual Entity in Dynamics CRM using Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Data Provider from this link.

🔨 Tools & Components

Guido enhanced his Dataverse REST Builder tool with a tip from Natraj.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Lookup Behavior – Minimum character to trigger search and delay between trigger - Nishant Rana

How to check user permission/ privilege on a record/ table in Power Apps Canvas app - Debajit Dutta

Business Unit Name Change - Thomas Sandsør

[VIDEO] Synapse Link for Dataverse - Power CAT

[VIDEO] Power Apps Images to Email and PDF - Shane Young

🎥 Videos

💖 GitHub Sponsors

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