Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #90

🥇 Cover Story

These are Matt's opinions on naming conventions in Power Apps canvas apps for screens, controls, variables, collections, and data sources.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

After reading Nishant's post about the auto-number data type Temmy was curious to try out the performance and duplication and he has shared the result in this post.

This tip is brought to you by Tanguy. It shows us how to hide the form selector when multiple forms are added to a model-driven app.

Nishant finally got a chance to test out a new command designer. He has also highlighted the limitations.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

When you develop responsive apps containers become very important. In this post, Pieter showcases us the common challenges when using containers.

How to create a GitHub repository for your Canvas app source code, to provide version control and direct editing in Visual Studio Code.

Matt has created a top 10 list of the most useful and unexpected tips & tricks to help you become a master at building Power Apps forms.

😎 Power Automate

In this post, Timo explains to us how to get a more detailed error from a Flow when it fails.

This is the 4th part of a 6-part blog series in which Linn shows us how to automatically create a sub-folder in SharePoint using Cloud Flows & Environment Variables.

Learn how to get Site templates (Site Design) via Power Automate. The site template gives a lot of information and when connected with Power Automate is even better!

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

How to enable multiple screens for custom pages. Canvas Apps and model-driven apps are converging starting with custom pages.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this post, Nick sums up all the new features released around Power Apps Portals. If you have missed any or need a refresher then do check out this awesome blog.

🔨 Tools & Components

Our guest blogger, Carl Cookson is back in his groove with the recent updates to his XrmToolBox tool Flow to Visio.

3 words - Cross Instances Joins. This truly is taking the tool to next level. Check out the post to learn about the new updates from Mark.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

As programmers, we must ensure that our web applications are safe. This short post will go through a few methods for securing your web app

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Let's tame Dataverse: How to reference Many-to-Many-relationships in Azure Logic Apps - Luise Freese

Enhance security in Dynamics 365 CRM using AAD Security Groups - Inogic

Show Ribbon Button - When a Row is Selected - Ram Prakash

Enhancement in Email Template - Inogic

Use ExecuteWorkflowAction to call Action and Workflow in CDS Destination KingswaySoft - Nishant Rana

Get the current environment of an app in Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra

Use of new configuration page UI in Power Apps Solution - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Marc Duiker@marcduiker

The best two settings in #VScode: https://t.co/5VFA9faPNz

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

💖 GitHub Sponsors

Thanks to the following people for being the sponsors:

🥈 Silver - David Wade

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