Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #144

🥇 Cover Story

Learn step-by-step how to create and send emails with attachments in Dynamics 365/Dataverse using Power Automate.

❓ Quiz of the week

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this article, lets see how to override the default grid click behavior and navigate to a Custom Page. Same approach can be used to navigate to custom URL, show alert etc…

In this blog, we will see how to trace a possible solution to get all the Business Process Flow (BPF) stages in their defined sequence.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Read this blog to know how to enforce the latest version of your Power App so that users aren't using an outdated version.

Learn how to fix the error in the canvas app while trying to get the value of a related entity (lookup) through a related entity (lookup).

😎 Power Automate

When you have used child flows and attempted to debug issues you will have come across the issue where you want to find the parent flow for the failing child.

Power Automate Desktop is excellent at automating AS400 tasks. Matthew shows how to open AS400, login to the system and navigate menus.

🌎 Power Pages

Power pages went GA at Ignite, and amongst the slew of new features, one of the most significant is the new licensing model. Let us understand this model better.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Learn about updateView() using async/await in virtual PCF control.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

This is the second part of a 2-part series that talks about how one could use PowerFX in plugins.

Temmy shows a step by step way to deploy web resources via ADO pipeline.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Nishant shows us how you can build strongly-typed validation rules by using the FluentValidation library for C#

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Associate a business unit with an Azure AD security group - DeviKrishna

How to find all contacts whose birthday falls in current month in DataVerse/ Dynamics 365 - Debajit Dutta

How to Read the current Model-driven App details using client API references - Inogic

Notify a Task is complete inside your Model-Driven App - Power Addict Ben

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

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