Oct 21, 2020

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #32

By Power Maverick • Issue #32 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

Last week Start.Dev.Change had their virtual event that was focused for beginners that are looking to learn new development skills. It was a two-day event and the recording for Day 1 & Day 2 are available on YouTube.

As you might have heard Dynamics Weekly is discontinued, but you can take a look at Power Platform Weekly.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

Modern Fluent UI Controls in Power Apps

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🥇 Cover Story

Transform Forms into Dialogs and more… – Dianamics PCF Lady

Diana shows us an awesome transformation of Forms into Dialogs using Xrm SDK methods. Also, diving into a possibility of creating a wizard like dialog.

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👍 Power Platform

Error with connection references missing in Power Platform Solution

Priyesh walks us through how you can work on one of the unmanaged solution import failures in Power Platform admin centers.

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How to pass an array from Power Apps to Power Automate

Debajit explores the capability to pass an array to Power Automate from any Power Apps and processing the array data.

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💎 Model Driven Apps & CDS

Get Parent Record ID Using Dynamics 365 CRM Client API

There are a number of client APIs provided by Microsoft that helps developers work seamlessly with CDS. One such useful method is getPageContext() in Xrm.Utility that can be used to get page context as an object representing the page. In this blog, we will see how we can use this method.

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Remove ‘This Email has been blocked due to potentially harmful content.’ message in Dynamics 365 Emails

Here’s how to remove the Security Warning from Email Messages records in Dynamics 365. OrgDbSettings tweak!

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

How To Use Custom Fonts In Power Apps - Matthew Devaney

Are you disappointed by the lack of fonts available in Power Apps? In this article Matt will show how to use custom fonts in your Power Apps.

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Overcome 2000 items limit using Collect function - Tomasz Poszytek

Learn how to overcome 2000 items limit using Power Apps Collect function by using collection in batches.

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🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Create a Regular Expression Validator for Microsoft Power Automate – Mike!'s Blog

One of Mike’s colleague had a requirement was validating an email address when importing records into CDS. So he wrote a blog by using Regular Expression to accomplish this scenario.

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How to set null value in Lookup Field using CDS Connector

In this blog, we will explore how to set a lookup field as null while mapping the Lookup field with another record’s lookup field which has null value.

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Converting Time Zones Easily In Power Automate – Flow Alt Delete – Josh Cook

Did you know that Power Automate has a Date Time action that can easily convert, and format time zones in one action? Josh shows us how to use this action.

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Text Functions Action in Power Automate within Dynamics 365

Whenever we want to extract part of a string, a common question comes to mind - how do we achieve this in Power Automate. Recent updates now allow us to use text functions. Let us see how.

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🔨 Tools & Components

Flow to Visio – XrmToolBox Addon – LinkeD365 Home

Sorry, the blog has been quiet, there is only so much time to spend on out of work activities, and this tool has been my time sink in the last 6 weeks. Not complaining, loved getting back to my routes.

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Card Viewer | PCF Gallery

A control to display as cards the amount of records and its label. They are based on the options from an optionset selected in the configuration.

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🎮 Interesting Tech Articles

Tailwind + React: Setup and Design Patterns - DEV

Understand what is Tailwind and how to use it in your React App.

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Using KingswaySoft Azure Blob Storage component with CDS

KingswaySoft provides 3 components specific to Azure Blog Storage. Nishant demonstrates on how to use them in SSIS.

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🎥 Videos

Intro to Visual Studio Code with NodeJS

How to Start Contributing To Open-Source

🔊 Podcasts

XrmToolCast: In The Beginning With Lisa Crosbie & Megan V Walker - Part1

In this episode Daryl & Jonas talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker talking about how their introduction to tools for the power platform.

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XrmToolCast: More Fun With The Up Podcast - Part2

In this episode Daryl & Jonas continue their talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker.

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🐤 Tweets of the week

Matt Bierner

@mattbierner

Today's @code tip: @ modified

Search @ modified in the settings editor to see a list of the settings that you have changed

Works for both user and workspace settings, and can be combined with other search filters

#code2020 https://t.co/tBsLE9AdxX

4:00 PM - 17 Oct 2020

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