🥇 Cover Story

This blog will discuss a proposed implementation of Optimized Concurrency for Model-Driven Apps forms. Mehdi's implementation is executed on the model-driven app only, using the client API and the new Asynchronous capabilities that the API offers.

❓ Quiz of the week

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes

The answer to the last newsletter issue was: 11

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Check out this post from Temmy where he provides the code snippet needed to query hierarchical data in Dataverse.

In this post, RamPrakash provides the code to call a workflow from JavaScript.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Power Apps has the capability to encode the text, however, there is no decoding function (DecodeUrl). Hiro shows us how to create our own DecodeUrl method.

Dawid shows us how to use SVG to create Spinner & will also show manipulation of the SVG spinners to increase UX in Power Apps applications.

Uday found an undocumented but easy method to get the last date of the month and it is very interesting.

😎 Power Automate

In this fundamental series by Venkata, he demonstrates fetching contacts using FetchXml query in cloud flows.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

A PowerApps PCF control that renders a Lookup field as a Dropdown List with images and customizable text.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Arpit shares a tip to customize the portal default toolbar menu to have a left navigation style menubar.

The Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse does not synchronize option sets. Learn how to do this using a shadow Dataverse table and a flow.

🔨 Tools & Components

This update focuses mainly on aggregate query performance and introduces .NET Core compatibility for developers wanting to integrate SQL 4 CDS with their own applications.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

The deleted sites are retained for 93 days and an Admin can restore them. In this blog post let us see how to get the deleted SharePoint site details using Microsoft Graph API application permission.

In this article, we will be discussing how to show the latest blogs on your GitHub profile.

⛅ Around Azure

Traditional due to XrmTooling requirements users have created v1 Azure Functions. In this post, Andrew showcases how we can leverage v3 Azure Functions with Dataverse.

Carl Cookson is famous for creating mind maps for the certifications he takes and it was no exception when he took AZ-900.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Country Code to Flag Emoji - Jorik

Using Microsoft Multiselect Lookup in your Model-driven Apps - Aric Levin

How to – change user’s business unit without removing the security roles in Dataverse - Nishant Rana

Solution deployments: Automated vs Manual - EY Kalman

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

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