Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #141

🥇 Cover Story

When multiple users edit data and you want your app to show real time data, you will need a multi user real time app. Pieter shows a way to force refresh the app for a datasource change with the help of timer control on Canvas apps.

❓ Quiz of the week

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Understand what is metadata and its behavior with solutions in Dataverse.

Read this post from Temmy to know how to fix the "Could not load file or assembly 'xxx' or one of its dependencies" error that you may encounter whilst plugin registration.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Matthew shows how Power Apps can send email including file attachments, rich text formatting, embedded images, HTML tables, web links & more

Here's how you can use Filter, Lookup and Search functions in Power Fx.

😎 Power Automate

Date difference in Power Automate, DiffInDays, DiffInHours, DiffInMinutes in Power Automate

A blog about Dynamics 365 and Power Platform (canvas apps in Power Apps and flows in Power Automate).

🌎 Power Pages

Break out the components associated with Header in Power Apps Portals.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

A PCF component that lets you embed SharePoint in an IFrame on a CRM Document Locations grid.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Add Vertical Buttons to Power Virtual Agents directly from the new authoring canvas. No longer switch to Bot Framework Composer to do so!

When you are caught in the middle of “which technology do we choose” to develop this application, and when the choice is between Power Platform and custom development, there is rarely a straightforward answer, but there are lots of considerations. Why don’t we go over some of them at least.

⛅ Around Azure

A walkthrough on the process of setting an Azure Function as an ASB one-way listener which posts incoming messages into Dynamics 365

Can we use Copy Activity to resolve for complex XML/JSON file? Read to learn more.

Personalization is the hallmark of customer centricity. It makes customers feel valued. Let's learn how to add it to your apps with Azure Personalizer.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Make your Canvas App intuitive by implementing Contextual FAQs - Architect Madan

How to create an array of characters from a string in Power Automate - Debajit Dutta

Fact Check: Modern Advanced Find vs Original Advanced Find - Alex Shlega

How to reverse a string in Power Automate - Debajit Dutta

Sort by Title in your Highlighted Content web part in SharePoint - Pieter Veenstra

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode, Daryl and Jonas talk to Mark Carrington, Chris Piasecki, and Matt Beard about the XrmToolBox Basics.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Danish N. | Microsoft MVP @DanzMaverick

🙌 New version for Dataverse DevTools released - Generate early-bound entities using pac cli command “modelbuilder” - Removed the CLI Commands from the preview feature - Bug fixes Download the latest version today #PowerPlatform #PowerApps #dataverse #vscode #tools #Extension https://t.co/yefAEFXGSR

Natraj Yegnaraman @RajYRaman

Much needed Power Platform CLI update for people struggling with noisy diffs. Latest release 1.20.3 #PowerApps https://t.co/7fJVhUWupT

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