Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #108

🥇 Cover Story

This Power Apps article will show you how to calculate the number of business days which is a very common scenario in our implementations. You will see how this is implemented with a cool Vacation Requests Canvas App.

This articler covers initial setup of the data lake and Azure Synapse workspace plus a few ways to interact with your data in this post (Synapse Studio, SSMS, Azure Storage Explorer).

❓ Quiz of the week

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this post, we will look at App Side Panes in Model-Driven Apps, a useful feature that gives users a side pane on the right side of a model-driven app. Developers can utilize this pane to display information to a user, such as lists, records, and pages.

SSIS is not dead, far from it. This article is a tutorial showing you how to use this technology and accelerators to facilitate data migration.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

  Introduction Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app built for hybrid work, so you and your team stay informed, organized, and connected. With

In this blog post, you will learn how to save the images captured using Camera Control to the SharePoint List as an attachment without the use of Power Automate in between.

😎 Power Automate

Here is an interesting way to add an index to array using Power Automate flow.

With Power Automate, you now get an additional property for a lookup field apart from the regular Type and Value field. Let’s see what’s that.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

I recently gave a demo of the new voice channel within Dynamics 365's Omnichannel for Customer Service app. In that post I covered the basics of inbound calling. This time I will explain how to setup and make outbound calls.

In this article, you will learn about Authentication and Solution commands to do export-import across the environment.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Open Word documents in the desktop app from Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra

Resolving User Not Licensed Errors When Saving A Row (Microsoft Dataverse) - Joe Griffin

Develop your JavaScript and C# code In Dynamics 365 using View-FetchXML managed solution – Everything Dynamics

Sample Code to Approve Email – Mailbox programmatically C# - Nishant Rana

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Robin Rosengrün@power_r2

Taking @mattbdevaney idea to create an easier input for IBAN numbers in #powerapps and automatically create blanks. When I saw the slider I instantly knew how to do it and had to try. Awesome idea! Check out his new blog post: https://t.co/sDHehYhwtS #poweraddicts https://t.co/1JayRNMorz

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