Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #106

🥇 Cover Story

Did you know that we could use the partitionID parameter when doing CRUD operations to improve performance? Fret not, and read this blog to see how Temmy implements various scenarios to understand the difference between using the partitionID and not using it.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this blog post, Joe shows how you can use YAML build pipelines in Azure DevOps to extract multiple solutions from the Microsoft Dataverse platform.

This blog shows the vast Microsoft BizApps Ecosystem map as on February 2022.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

This article describes how you can smartly use the "Proper" function to convert the first letter of each word to upper case in a Canvas app.

While working with an Android Mobile, its quite common for users to use the bottom back button of the Android UI to perform a back operation. Using this button might invoke the Android App exit operation, instead of navigating to the previous screen. Read this post to know about a workaround that can be leveraged.

😎 Power Automate

In this article, Matthew will show two methods to get data from an Excel file, and prove how SQL queries are twice as fast at reading data from an Excel file, and how we use them to filter the data and only return a subset of what we need.

In this blog, you will see how we can use the Array variable in Power Automate flow to send multiple attachments in email from a SharePoint list item.

This blog talks about an interesting approach to execute fetchXml with distinct and aggregate features in the List rows action which is currently not supported in Power automate flow.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

In this blog, you will learn how to use an in-built method in PCF to upload an audio/video/image file and view/read it.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

This blog shows a step by step way to synchronize Appointments, Contacts, Fax, letters, Tasks, etc. entities between Dynamics 365 and Outlook.

This article is inspired by Ulrikke Akerbak. “Power Apps portals: Customise the sign-in form- Toggle password visibility” is published by Ragavan Rajan.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

In this article you will learn a way to configure Typescript and Webpack for your dataverse client side customizations.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Using JavaScript code to extend Marketing form - Shraddha Jaitly

Parse JSON In Canvas App using Regex - Inogic

How to enable model-driven apps for offline use - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Ilya Fainberg@IFainberg

🔗Deeplinking into a #Teams channel from #PowerApps can be pretty handy⚡ like in this support screen example ⚒️ #PowerAddict #PowerPlatform #MicrosoftCloud https://t.co/kmFU6g3X3U

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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