Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #121

🥇 Cover Story

This is part 1 of a series that will focus on beautiful buttons and navigation menu series in Canvas Apps.

❓ Quiz of the week

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Temmy comes up with yet another hidden treasure in the Plugin ContextExtensions class. In there, you can discover InputParameterOrDefault which accepts a string parameter. Find out how he demonstrates it via a Custom API without further ado.

Check out three ways that one can do REST API calls in Dataverse. The first one is a hack using a logged-in user's network cookie; for the remaining two the steps are mentioned in the post.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

So, you deploy your Canvas app across multiple environments. How do users know which environment they are in? Read more to find out.

😎 Power Automate

Pieter shows how to return arrays from a flow in Power Automate to an app in Power Apps without a premium license.

Ramprakash demonstrates to us time zone conversion using cloud flows.

Mistakenly deleted Power Automate cloud flows? Learn how to restore deleted flows in the last 28 days.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

This blog shows you how to make custom pages responsive in nature with an example of adding a gallery component with the contacts listed.

🔨 Tools & Components

Check out the latest release SQL 4 CDS v6.3 from Mark with a number of useful improvements and fixes.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to stop navigation from Lookup columns in Model-Driven Apps grid - Debajit Dutta

Error when trying to retrieve data from the network - Pieter Veenstra

Usage of async and await with web resource in Dynamics CRM – Venkata Polisetty

How to get the first and last date of the current month in Power Apps Canvas apps - Debajit Dutta

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Daryl and Scott interview Temmy Wahyu Raharjo, fellow MVP, and chat about the Dependency Injection, and Developer Rabbit Holes & Perfectionism.

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