Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #145
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Amira Beldjilali posted on LinkedIn that showcases an excellent way to push an already registered plugin from a local machine to Dataverse. Check out this link.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
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🥇 Cover Story
Learn how to deploy plugins with Azure DevOps Pipeline – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy explains how to set up the pipeline on Azure DevOps for Plugin deployments.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
How to get value of Environment variable in javascript - Debajit's Blog
Learn how to fetch value of environment variable in javascript
Create a Custom API using bulk request
Custom APIs in Dataverse is a great way to build your own API messages to run complex business operations in a single API. And best of all, they can be called from anywhere, whether using JavaScript, Cloud Flow, or even from a plugin.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Binding Choice / OptionSet (multiselect) with Combo box – Nishant Rana's Weblog
Instead of hardcoding Combo box , we can bind it to the Choice / Option Set field of Dynamics 365 / Dataverse. Check out the post that explains it.
How To - Rounded Corners for Dropdown Controls and labels - Power Platform Community
Here is a neat little trick for making dropdowns and labels have the same rounded corners that text boxes do.
😎 Power Automate
How to Call an Asynchronous Power Automate Flow With JavaScript - Fredrik Engseth
Learn how to create an asynchronous Power Automate flow and how to call it with JavaScript.
Displaying entity image in SSRS report using Power Automate | Inogic
If you need to display an entity image on an SSRS report. But, due to SSRS limitations, the report did not allow the usage of the OOB “entityimage” attribute in the dataset.
🌎 Power Pages
Rich Text Editor (RTE) for PowerPages, part 1
I decided to write this article, which will consist of two parts because there’s not much information on the subject. The information available at learn.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Azure Communication Services uses Azure Event Grid to send real-time event notifications for chat, telephony, video, SMS, and voice calling events. Azure Event Grid will then route the event messages to the subscribers. Read this blog to know more.
Unified Routing – Effort Base Routing | Microsoft Dynamics 365
Within Dynamics 365 we can now use effort-based routing to assign conversations or records to users. Meaning from Omnichannel for Customer Service we could route case records, web chat conversations and more to agents based on effort estimate models.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Interesting read in case you are looking to implement integrations with Azure.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Fixed – Custom Page not opening or Page doesn’t exist in this app error in the model-driven app (PowerApps) - Nishant Rana
Microsoft Authenticator app sign-in method types for Microsoft 365 account | Office 365 - Priyesh Wagh
How to hide command bar/ ribbon bar of a form in Model driven apps/ Dynamics 365 - Debajit Dutta
🎥 Videos
🔊 Podcasts
XrmToolCast: Julian Sharp and The Study Group for Microsoft Certification Exams
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Julian Sharp, about the study groups that he runs for the Microsoft certification exams.
🐤 Tweets of the week
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