Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #102

Danish N.

Feb 23, 2022

🥇 Cover Story

Temmy tries out to implement a retry policy mechanism using Polly.

❓ Quiz of the week

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Last quiz answer: Custom API can be registered

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article, Matt will show you the best workaround to view a PDF file stored in a SharePoint document library inside Power Apps.

Checklist series by Hardit Bhatia

😎 Power Automate

In this blog post, Benedikt will explain the current problem with Environment Variable caching in Power Automate flows and how to work around it.

In this post, Dawid shows you how to get Dataverse Choices values for Power Automate and learn ways of access to Dataverse Choices values to work with Power Automate

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

In this blog, we will discuss the new entity record methods which are going to replace the WebApi update methods

Want to learn how to write your PCF components without using relative imports? This post will help you do that.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Srinath has provided a good demonstration on how to get started with Power Apps Portals.

Debajit is trying to create the functionality that exists in the Model-Driven app in Portals.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

In the last part of the 8-part series, Linn shows us how to provide SharePoint documents on Portals using Power Automate.

Wouldn't it be nice if we can Test our Flows without executing some of the actions like Sending Emails, creating items in SharePoint or Dataverse? Guess what we can! And it's very easy to do. Check this out!

How to deal with JSON data in a cloud flow when the source system doesn't give a structured array to loop through? Convert it to XML first!

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

David Rivard @david_rivard

Render cascading dropdowns with the latest release of the LookupDropdown PCF control 🚀 https://t.co/XfAG1SZK7s #Dataverse #PowerApps #PCF https://t.co/NLXASO0HsS

💖 GitHub Sponsors

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🥈 Silver - David Wade

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