Oct 14, 2020

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #31

By Power Maverick • Issue #31 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

This week we have two cover stories.

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🥇 Cover Story

PCF Swipe Detection – 365lyf

Swiping is an integral part of the mobile experience, and the PCF Swipe control enables swipe detection on Power Apps Canvas apps. In this article, Andrew will step you through how you can build, deploy and test it.

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Using OpenXml with Power Automate Flows | It Ain't Boring

Earlier this month, I wrote a couple of post about reporting/document generation. While working on it, I also tried one other option which you may find useful, too.

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👍 Power Platform

Power Platform Licensing Q&A: Key Takeaways – M365 Princess

In October, Luise hosted together with Elio Struyf a Q&A session about Power Platform licensing. And invited Ryan Cunningham and Chris Huntingford to explain licensing.

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Working with Environment Variables in Canvas Apps & Flows | The CRM Chap

Joe explains how to use Environment Variables on canvas apps and Power Automate flows.

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💎 Model Driven Apps & CDS

FetchXML Late Materialize - Mark Carrington

The latest addition to FetchXML is Late Materialize. Mark shows us how to use them and when to use them and how much improvements they can produce when switched on.

markcarrington.dev • Share

Get GUID of the current View in CDS from a ribbon button

Here’s how you get the GUID of current view from Ribbon Button in Dynamics 365 JavaScript code on the button.

d365demystified.com • Share

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Time Picker in Power Apps Canvas App and Daylight Saving

Linn plays around with date picker to show how developers are creating date-time picker in canvas apps.

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Clear a field value & Reset Form in a Canvas Power App | D365 Demystified

Here’s a quick tip to clear a field on the form and how to clear the entire form!

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🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Perform “Group By” operation on Data – Ajit Patra

In this post, we’ll see how we can perform aggregate function on data such as Sum or Count using Power Automate. Unlike LINQ in C# or SQL, it’s not very straight forward to do using Power Automate.

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Add new values to CDS Option Sets using Power Automate

In this #PowerShot, Yash will show you how you can add a new option to a CDS option set. We will use the Common Data Service (Current Environment) connector and the Perform Unbound action to achieve this.

www.bythedevs.com • Share

Actions function in Power Automate

Most flow developers will know about functions like body and outputs in Power Automate. But how about the actions function?

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🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Dataset PCF using FluentUI: open record – Dianamics PCF Lady

Diana explorers three possible way to open a record from a dataset PCF grid.

dianabirkelbach.wordpress.com • Share

🔨 Tools & Components

Notes Manager - XrmForYou

Welcome to the Notes Manager from XrmForYou – a utility to match all your needs you have dreamed so far for your Notes configuration in CDS.

debajmecrm.com • Share

Progress Indicator Component - Power Platform Community

This component is used to show what progress has been made in a process. The most common use-case is for Approvals.

powerusers.microsoft.com • Share

🎮 All Tech

JWT – JSON Web Token – Introduction

Nishant shows us how JSON Web Token work and provides us with an nice introduction blog post.

nishantrana.me • Share

Git vs GitHub: Understanding the Difference - DEV

Introduction Git and GitHub have an important role not only to open source but in the daily lives of several developers and companies.

dev.to • Share

🎥 Videos

Power Apps SVG make your apps prettier and easier to use

Power Apps Permissions: Give User Access

🐤 Tweets of the week

timo pertilä

@timopertila

Blog post coming soon. Canvas #PowerApps with editable grid so that rows (projects) are stored in the one entity and columns (allocations) are stored in the second.

In this way you can have n columns. #PowerPlatform https://t.co/R0WcGEbHog

8:22 AM - 10 Oct 2020

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