Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #93

🥇 Cover Story

While browsing through PCF docs Diana identified EntityRecord. Diving further into it she realized new SDK methods were available that provided CRUD operations on the dataset. Check out all these methods in her post.

❓ Quiz of the week

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes

Answer to the last newsletter issue was: stash

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Temmy does a very in-depth review of the two methods ExecuteBatch & ExecuteMultipleRequest. Find out the differences in this blog.

Here's how you correctly delete or rename a plugin using the Plugin Registration Tool for Dynamics 365 CRM

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Check out Matt's top 10 Canvas Apps blogs of 2021. A very good year indeed for Matt. Kudos!

Have you ever wished you could change an image using a dropdown or based on select criteria? The key is how you reference the images you have.

😎 Power Automate

In this post, Pieter shows us how you can use cloud flows to sync the data between two different data sources.

Elaiza shows us how to use Ivan's In-app notification builder tool from XrmToolBox to create notifications using cloud flows.

🔨 Tools & Components

The XrmToolBox version of Dataverse REST Builder is out, you can download it from the Tool Library inside XrmToolBox.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to merge Accounts if the subordinate record is associated with one or more active quotes? - Mehdi El Amri

Understanding Queues in Customer Service - Nishant Rana

How to Add Users and Sync Profile Information in Dataverse Instantly - Inogic

3 Ways to avoid duplicate records in canvas apps - Pieter Veenstra

Clear and Update Custom queue field on the Case based on Queue items - Deepesh Somani

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode, Daryl and Scott speak with Heidi Neuhauser about 10-part blog series.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Daniel Laskewitz @laskewitz

🔐Environment variables with Key Vault reference! Grab the secrets at runtime and no more key vault actions needed to get the secrets (at least I hope). So far, I didn't get it to work, but should be close! 🥳 #PowerAddicts #FlowFam #BotSquad #PowerPlatform https://t.co/JBUUqNf4sj

💖 GitHub Sponsors

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