Mar 17, 2021

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #53

By Power Maverick • Issue #53 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

Power Platform Developer Bootcamp dates are announced. Call for speaker closes on 26th April, so submit your sessions now. Following is the link to the event page. #MayTheForceBeWithYou

Learn Power Bi with an instructor-led training on 24th-25th March. More information provided on this link.

Inogic has created series of posts on Custom API. So if you want to get insights into Custom API then head over to their blog post.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

GitHub released a CLI (command line interface) that helps you interact with GitHub from your terminal. Read more here.

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— Danish N.

In case you missed it, the first official book on Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) was released couple of weeks ago. To get your copy click on the image below.

🥇 Cover Story

Calling Microsoft Graph using @azure/msal-react from PCF Control – Implementing Tae of <T>

Let’s explore using Microsoft’s Official Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for React from our PCF control

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Inversion of Control in Dynamics 365 | XRM Vision

Are you developing an application with Dynamics 365? Learn more on inversion of control to make you code easier to read.

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Updating Currency Exchange Rates in Dataverse (including Dynamics 365) – ReadyXRM

When working with different currencies in Power Apps or D365, there is no out of the box mechanism to automatically update the exchange rates. Nick shows us how we can automatically update exchange rates in this post.

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Power Apps Navigation Menu Component - Matthew Devaney

Don’t repeat yourself! In this article I will show you how to make a Power Apps navigation menu component with the same style as MS Teams.

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How to set focus on first control of a form in Power Apps canvas app - Debajit's Blog

Debajit shows us how to automatically set focus on the first control in PowerApps.

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🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

A Complete Guide to Creating and Populating Word Templates with Power Automate - FlowJoe.io

A complete guide to generating and populating a Word Template on Power Automate and also creating a PDF from it!

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Trigger a Power Automate flow only when a column has a specific value in SharePoint list - Debajit's Blog

Trigger flow on specific column update in SharePoint, Trigger condition, when an item is created or modified.

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Bulk Edit Multiselect optionset/choices fields using Power Automate | Inogic

In this post Inogic shows us a nice and elegant way to update multi-select optionset/choices using Power Automate cloud Flows.

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🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

The Form Component Control promotes the PCFs to the next level – Dianamics PCF Lady

Diana demonstrates us the capabilities of using Form Component with a little hack to overcome the limitation of configuring code components in model-driven app.

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How to show Command Bar on PCF Component added to Sub-grid | Inogic

When you add a dataset code component to a subgrid you lose OOB command bar but with correct options enabled you can show that on the form.

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👍 Everything else in Power Platform

OptionSet Labels in Power BI Reports - Mark Carrington

If you’ve tried reporting on your Dataverse data using Power BI, you’ll probably have noticed you don’t get the labels associated with any option set. Mark will show us how to make that happen using the PowerBI OptionSet Assistant solution

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DataTable in PowerApps Portal – Vblogs

Introduction: This blog explains how to add search, sorting, and pagination functionality to the custom table in PowerApps Portal.

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🔨 Tools & Components

Security Debugger 1.0.2 Released - Mark Carrington

Mark released a newer version of his Security Debugger XrmToolBox tool.

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Integrate CRM on-prem with SharePoint online without IFD - Debajit's Blog

CRM on-premise and SharePoint integration without IFD, Add property during upload of file to SharePoint, add metadata to SharePoint file from CRM.

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👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Creating a simple project Web API with VSCode and Entity Framework - DEV Community

In this article, Jéssica will teach how to create API using Visual Studio Code.

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⛅ Around Azure

Deploying Azure Bicep using Azure DevOps Pipelines. – Communications & Networking Daily

This post explains what Azure Bicep is and demonstrates the deployment strategy for Azure Bicep using Azure DevOps.

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🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Dynamics CRM: Implement Virtual Entity – Part 2 - Temmy Raharjo

Parse XML in Power Automate and Create records in Dynamics 365 - Inogic

Create Dynamic Adaptive Cards in Teams using Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra

Quick Tip: Rich Text Control for Canvas and Model-Driven App - Priyesh Wagh

🎥 Videos

Ask the Expert: Introducing Power Fx

Add & Append Multiple Entries to a Plain Text Column using Power Apps

Ep.01: Natraj Yegnaraman on The DevConnect Show

🔊 Podcasts

XrmToolCast: Documenting Power Platform Tools With Linn Zaw Win

Linn Zaw Win shares his journey of attempting to document every single tool in the Power Platform universe, focusing first on the tools in the XrmToolBox. Daryl also gives an update on Jonas.

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🐤 Tweets of the week

Hiro

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Text.Repeat in Power Query
= Concat(Sequence(...)) in Power Apps https://t.co/1HjBT8qYb0

2:34 AM - 15 Mar 2021

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