Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #103

🥇 Cover Story

In quite a few cases, when we develop PCFs we need to make external requests. Diana explores the uncharted territory. So read her post to know what she finds out.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Nishant shows us the two ways for making a column read-only on an editable grid. The first approach was kinda interesting.

Problem: The custom filter applied to the system view does not seem to work. Root cause: Caching. Find out how Mahender resolves this issue.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Creating a custom theme for your Power Apps project is important. The colors, fonts, icons & control styles all contribute to a unique design

Do you have a need to display a date as a Julian Calendar date? While the date pickers cannot show this, you can display the date in Julian Calendar

😎 Power Automate

In this blog, we will explore how we can dynamically retrieve the attachment files from notes and send that attachment via email.

Learn how you can use simple expressions to change the date format to single letter custom formats in Power Automate cloud flows.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this post, we will look at using dynamic values and other document-enriching extensions, such as x-ms-summary, to improve the usability and readability of the OpenAPI definition.

🔨 Tools & Components

A brand new tool from our guest editor Carl Cookson; who is known for creating tools that help with documentation.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Learn what 1**, 2**, 3**, 4**, 5** codes actually mean.

⛅ Around Azure

Caching is one of the operations that we always do when building software. But what about the validity of the cached data. Temmy shows you how you can valid the cache using WebJob.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Send Teams channel message using custom Teams bot and Power Automate: Part 1 - Mohd. Ashiq Faleel

Invalid character hexadecimal value 0x1A in Power Automate - Roma Gupta

Cancel Flow Run instead of Terminate in the middle of an apply to each in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra

Error Faced while registering Plugin in On-premise CRM - Inogic

Error Handling in Power Automate - Lewis Baybutt

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Daryl talks about his newest tool in his toolbelt, ZoomIt. A Windows utility from Sys Internals for drawing on your screen. 

💖 GitHub Sponsors

Thanks to the following people for being the sponsors:

🥈 Silver - David Wade

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