🥇 Cover Story

Designing a security model is the most crucial part of any project. In this article, Dani talks about various aspects of the security model that we should discuss with client.

❓ Quiz of the week

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this blog post, Nishant shows how to clone a record using the Clone method of EntityExtensions class.

Learn how to use the Dataverse service client which was earlier in public preview and is now available generally. Connecting to Dataverse is now easier with just a few lines of code.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Did you know that you can use the Navigate Function to create or update context variables of the new screen? Read more to know how.

Learn how to add controls to a container in power apps canvas apps.

😎 Power Automate

Occasionally, you’d probably want to know the time stamp of the last successful run of your power automate flow. Alex shows you how to get that data.

Working with a lot of data, now store that in an array variable in Power Automate.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Learn how to download only portal entities that you need with the new PAC CLI update.

In the last post, we created a new close dialog, but we didn't add any logic to the buttons. In this post, check out how to add logic to close the custom page.

🔨 Tools & Components

Why work with Layout in FetchXML Builder? Because we can now. It's easier to do it, it's possible with extremely complex queries. All in one place.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Temmy shows you how to keep external data in sync with Dataverse changes using RetrieveEntityChangesRequest.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

No Entities to select when creating SLA in Dynamics 365 Customer Service - Debajt Dutta

Interacting with Microsoft - CRM Ninja

Custom security role is not available while sharing app - Mahender Pal

Usability enhancements to grids in Model-Driven Apps - Inogic

Is it a Cloud Flow or is it a Web Page? How to create a simple unsubscribe page without breaking a sweat - Alex Shlega

Resolved – Avoid variables in Apply To Each steps in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Natraj Yegnaraman @RajYRaman

What is Power Pipelines? It is a feature that aims to make ALM easy for Makers by baking ALM inside the product. Public preview this month. Will this make CoE ALM Accelerator obsolete? @kkanakas drops some other nuggets as well. #PowerApps https://t.co/C7tlPeu5UU

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