Mar 24, 2021

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #54

By Power Maverick • Issue #54 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

In this issue, we have two cover stories as both of them compliment each other to give you a complete insights.

Solution explorer has a new look as pointed out by Linn Zaw Win in his tweet. In order to use the new look you have to use make.preview.powerapps.com.

The NuGet package Microsoft.Powerplatform.Cds.Client is marked as deprecated and a new NuGet package is available for download called Microsoft.PowerPlatform.Dataverse.Client. And I am so glad they fixed the naming convention 😀.

Interested in taking some certification exam or want to share your experience with the exams then check out the events page for more information. If you want to speak, there are missing sessions on MB-210, MB-220, MB-240, PL-100.

James Hall has created some cool and useful bookmark-lets for Power Automate. All you have to do is go to this page, grab the button provided on the page and drag it to your bookmark bar. Now have fun with them like Natraj showed it in his tweet.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

Do checkout my interview on the MVP show hosted by Mark Smith under the Podcast section.

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— Danish N.

🥇 Cover Story

Unpack Canvas Apps in a Pipeline » Benedikt's Power Platform Blog

In this blog post, you will learn how to unpack a canvas apps in your pipeline to improve transparency and error tracing.

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Everything as Code - ALM with Canvas Apps

With the recent experimental announcement of the PowerApps Solution Packager, we now have a much better way of managing Canvas Apps in the source code repository. Scott shares his top 3 principles to follow for ALM.

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Show/Hide header and ribbon menu dynamically on Model Driven App forms - Debajit's Blog

Debajit shows us the new capabilities within the API that lets you show or hide any part of the header and ribbon menu dynamically.

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Dataverse Client Scripting: Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

In this post, Temmy explains us how to work with Lookup Dialog in model driven app.

temmyraharjo.wordpress.com • Share

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Power Apps: Horizontal scroll in a vertical gallery with “freeze panes” effect

Michał created a wonderful canvas app that resembles a freeze pane feature of excel.

michalsacewicz.com • Share

Power Apps Text Functions (With Examples) - Matthew Devaney

In this short guide Matt will show you how to use Power Apps text functions and give everyday examples of how you use them in your own apps.

matthewdevaney.com • Share

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Asynchronous HTTP Response from a Flow | D365 Demystified

Want to make a Flow send HTTP Response Asynchronously then check this post from Priyesh!

d365demystified.com • Share

How to bulk change main forms header density using Cloud Flows ? – XRM Tricks

Mehdi demonstrates a nice trick to update the low-density header to high-density header with very minimal efforts using Cloud Flows.

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🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

PCF: Lookup Attribute – Let’s take look under the hood – Andrew Butenko's Blog

Andrew goes rouge in this post where he dives into the internal working of PCF to configure code components that will support Lookup attribute.

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Error: Required argument publisher-name/publisher-prefix is missing - Debajit's Blog

Debajit was one of the first few people to blog about PCF code components and since then CLI has changed. In this post Debajit clears few of the issues people were facing.

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👍 Everything else in Power Platform

How to set the footer remain at the bottom of the window - Power Platform Community

In this post, Ragavan shows us the implementation to make sure the footer is always sticking to the bottom of the page.

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Creating a Custom Connector for Pipedrive in Power Automate – Vblogs

We already have a connector for Pipedrive in Power Automate but that connector offers very few actions. In this blog, we will see how we can create a custom connector for Pipedrive and add more actions to it.

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👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Debouncing v/s Throttling - DEV Community

In this article, we will discuss what exactly is debouncing and throttling, why we use them & the main difference between the two.

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How to send Adaptive Cards with CLI Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Tech Community

In this blog post Luise explains how you can send an Adaptive Card with CLI Microsoft 365. She guides you from zero to hero , so even if you don’t anything about the CLI Microsoft 365 or about Adaptive cards, don’t stop reading.

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⛅ Around Azure

Call Microsoft Graph API as a signed in user with delegated permission in Power Automate or Azure Logic apps using HTTP Connector – Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

If you have a requirement to access graph endpoint as a signed in user/account on an instant/automated/scheduled flow, this blog post will help you with instructions and steps to access the Microsoft graph API with delegated permissions using the HTTP connector

ashiqf.com • Share

Using AzCopy to sync the local data with Azure Storage – Nishant Rana's Weblog

Using the sync command of azcopy, we can keep the local data synchronized with Azure Blob.

nishantrana.me • Share

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Implementation Of Custom API In Common Data Service - Sumit Gupta

Force sync team members to Dataverse for Teams *Users* table - Yash Agarwal

Getting All Global Optionset options using Xrm.WebApi -{Quick Tip} - Mahender Pal

How to create custom errors in Power Apps! - Hardit Bhatia

Validate JSON Schema for HTTP Request trigger in a Flow and send Response - Priyesh Wagh

Reuse Flows connected to SharePoint Lists – Working again - Eickhel Mendoza

🎥 Videos

How To Use The Skip Question Feature In Power Virtual Agent

Export Power Apps data to Excel in CSV format

Ask the Expert: Introducing Power Fx

🔊 Podcasts

Danish Naglekar on The MVP Show | MVP Show

Danish Naglekar on The MVP Show chats about his journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and shares his knowledge about PCF builder.

www.nz365guy.com • Share

🐤 Tweets of the week

Joris Kalz

@joriskalz

Generate people that do not exists with #GANspace and #PowerAutomate Desktop. I am using them as demo data for #bizapps. #rpa #ai #demo #powerplatform https://t.co/6WvYrLphKh

5:30 AM - 20 Mar 2021

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