Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #109

🥇 Cover Story

In this blog post, Neil Parkhurst shared his findings with using a Power Virtual Agent as an IVR within Microsoft's Omnichannel for Customer Service.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

You might be wondering as to what the word ‘swarming’ means in the title for this post. Don’t worry – it’ll become clear pretty soon once you read this blog post.

This article talks about how you can transform the datasource for your Power apps from SharePoint to Dataverse.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

$-Strings are an awesome new way to concatenate text strings in Power Apps by writing curly braces { } to denote a function or expression.

😎 Power Automate

A super helpful way to deal with the duplicate property names in JSON objects in Power automate flows.

Use the cheat sheet to help you envision and build powerful Apps using Power Automate and Dataverse.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Generate awesome Shields.IO badges in PowerPlatform using this PCF Control.

The long-awaited 'virtual control' feature is finally in preview which means you can start to try converting your controls to be virtual - but what does this actually mean? Read this post for more info.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Do you know we can write Code (Preview) in Custom Connector? In this blog post, we will make a simple function that will return the last date of the month to try the feature.

An interesting blog post to help you to plan ahead for the two major MS release waves that are rolled out at the same time every year.

🔨 Tools & Components

It’s time for another big update to SQL 4 CDS – this one’s been in the works for 3 months and has got some great improvements to its level of SQL support, performance, integration with SSMS and reusability in custom apps. New SQL support: Variables You can now declare and Continue Reading

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to open multiple rows in new tabs using Power Fx commands? - Mehdi El Amri

Power Platform /Dataverse development vs Classic Development – what’s the problem? - Alex Shlega

Power Apps Portals: Remove default value on Lookup Modal - Oliver Rodrigues

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode of the Visual Studio Talk Show, I had the great pleasure to talk (In French) with Microsoft MVP’s Mario Cardinal and Guy Barette.

Daryl and Scott interview Casey Burke and Prabhat Pandey from Microsoft, and chat about the new command designer with Power Fx.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Natraj Yegnaraman @RajYRaman

Quick Tip: You can use appname parameter to get to your model driven app easily. This could be useful if you are sending links by email. https://t.co/n3zivAtCA5 #PowerApps https://t.co/j20k5Fz4Us

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