Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #92

🥇 Cover Story

In this post, Nishant shows us how to define and use a custom process action. He also throws in a bonus on Shared Variables in custom actions.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Ramon demonstrates the process of retrieving an activity party list from an activity in Dataverse using Web API.

Nishant had a couple of actions created, but they were not appearing in the Plugin Registration Tool. Find out how he resolves this issue in this post.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

This list has all of the Power Apps date & time functions and shows examples of how to deal with date formats, date manipulation, time zones, and more.

This post explains to us how to use Power Fx in canvas apps to collect arrays provided by cloud flows.

😎 Power Automate

Want to trigger your cloud flows only when a certain condition is met? Vaishali had you covered where she explains the process.

Tomas in this post describes to you deeply how approval tasks are organized in Dataverse and what can we do with them.

🔨 Tools & Components

Guido keeps on enhancing his Dataverse REST Builder. This time it is the column with the file type.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Many people ask this question so let's get this settled in this post.

Developing an application and testing it's at the same time is part of any software. Exposing a local server to test publicly is where Ngrok helps us provide that tunneling. Learn how you can get started from this post.

⛅ Around Azure

In this post, Temmy wanted to try the Azure stack of the queuing systems. he shows us how to consume Azure Service Bus Queue and Azure Storage Queue.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Using Force Sync User to sync users in Power Platform - Nishant Rana

Quick Tip: Configure web resource for Dynamics 365 for phones - Mahender Pal

Display images in Adaptive Cards - Tomasz Poszytek

Handling SharePoint file locks with Power Automate child flows - Pieter Veenstra

🎥 Videos

❓ Quiz of the week

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🐤 Tweets of the week

Nick Craver @Nick_Craver

Never occurred to me to use ValueTuples for temp variable swapping, but...yeah: https://t.co/fY2pHNPrRs

💖 GitHub Sponsors

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