Nov 18, 2020

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #36

By Power Maverick • Issue #36 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

This issue is rather long but with lot of interesting content. As there are extra articles in Canvas Apps & Power Automate section Tools & Component section is not available.

First big announcement, after CDS renaming debacle few months back by Microsoft, they have given it a second try and hopefully this time the renaming sticks. Now, Common Data Service is known as Microsoft Dataverse (yes, like ‘Universe’). And Project Oakdale is now called Microsoft Dataverse for Teams. You can read more about the announcement here.

There were also terminology updates made last week. And some of the MVPs have shared their opinion either via Twitter or their blog posts on the terminology changes. Joe Griffin has explained the terminology changes very well.

There were more announcements from Microsoft. So check them out below.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

I hope you enjoy the content of this week and don’t forget to share your feedback by clicking 👍 or 👎 at the bottom of this email. If you have any suggestions, please let me know by filling out the survey.

– Danish N.

🥇 Cover Story

Debug your PCFs during development using Fiddler AutoResponder – Dianamics PCF Lady

Fiddler AutoResponder is a great way to debug the PCF Components. If you don’t use it already, Diana will tell you why you should. If you use it already, then Diana wants to know what’s your recipe?

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👍 Power Platform

Providing XML as an input to your Custom Connector Actions

One of the projects Inogic’s team were working on was to integrate with a third-party API that accepted input in the XML format. This is a quick tip on how to pass XML in the action body when it expects JSON.

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Beginners: Let's build COVID Safe solutions with AI & Power Platform 🚀

In this post, Arafat talks about how can you build a solution to ensure safe distancing in the business using Power Apps and AI Builder

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

The Trick to Updating Custom Lookups using the Dataverse Web API

In Dataverse, when updating a custom lookup field using the Web API, you may run into an “undeclared property” error. Let’s look at how to get around this.

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Retrieving environment variable value in Javascript | It Ain't Boring

Alex provides us with a script using FetchXML and Web API that will fetch the environment variable values which can be used in any JavaScript project.

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Make A Time Picker In Power Apps - Matthew Devaney

In this article, Matt will show you how to make a re-usable Time Picker component in Power Apps that is mobile-friendly.

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Dynamic expanding two-level menus - Power Platform Community

As users have become accustomed in many applications, top menus with context-sensitive sub-menus are the norm, but are not part of the standard Power Apps controls.

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How to save signature from Pen Input control to file data type in CDS

In this blog, Debajit explains us the easy way to save signature from Pen Input control to file data type in CDS.

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🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

How to: verify principle object access directly from the Flow | It Ain't Boring

If you ever tried using “List Records” action with the POA table (principalobjectaccess), you might have noticed it’s not showing up in the dropdown list. But Alex shows us how that can be achieved.

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Dynamically Populate Owner Value (User or Team) in Power Automate

In this post, you will learn about how to set the value of the Owner field dynamically based on the value of another row’s Owner field.

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Timeout in Power Automate Approval - 365 Corner

Timeout in Power Automate Approval is very important. Learn how to terminate Approval when the Timeout is meet.

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🎮 Other Interesting Dev Articles

Using EasyRepro for Automated UI Testing in Dataverse

Carl shows us how easy it is to use EasyRepro for running automated UI testing in Dataverse.

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Loading Data into Azure Data Lake - Mark Carrington

Last time Mark showed how to create a data lake, but how do you get data into it? What format should you store it in? All these questions will be answered in this post.

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React component code smells | anton gunnarsson

Anton’s collection of things to avoid in React components

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🎥 Videos

Power Virtual Agents Teams - Build Chatbots with Project Oakdale

Power Apps Permissions: Remove user access

🐤 Tweets of the week

Victor Dantas - Microsoft Biz Apps MVP

@dantaspower

Free PowerApps Portals Zero to Hero coaching program! I am taking 50 professionals (both Pro-Developers and Citizen Developers) into a Portals learning journey from Jan/Mar 2021.
https://t.co/xLA7iu6br8
#powercommunity #365saturday #powerappsportals #ironsharpensiron https://t.co/9zP10LmJG8

1:09 PM - 12 Nov 2020

Matthew Devaney | MVP | #PowerAddicts

@mattbdevaney

#PowerAppsTip 🔥

You can quickly left-align a group of controls by selecting them all and clicking the 'align' command on the home menu. This saves soooo much time 🕑

There's no need to individually position them 🥳 https://t.co/mJYQClJacy

7:46 AM - 12 Nov 2020

🤩 Thanks for reading

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