May 12, 2021

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #61

By Power Maverick • Issue #61 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

We have ProDev Bootcamp event coming up; organized by the Power Community. Check out the agenda here.

14/15 is Power Apps Dev Day
22 is Front-end Dev Day
29 is Back-end Dev Day

The event will also have Q&A sessions with panelists/experts on 22nd and 29th. More information will be shared in coming days.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

Recently came across this VS Code extension from GitHub that let’s to manage PRs and Issues right from VS Code.

Power Apps demo extravaganza is now open for submissions. Get your apps or components submitted. More details can be found here.

Last week Olena Grischenko wrote a blog on how to get tenant id without using Azure portal. That is one way of getting the tenant id but did you knew that Level Up also provides you with Environment Details - if you click on the hamburger icon you should see “Environment Details” option.

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🥇 Cover Story

Implementing OAuth 2.0 On-Behalf-Of Flow for Dataverse Custom Connector – Implementing Tae of <T>

In this post, we will explore how to implement a custom connector using the OAuth 2.0 on-behalf-of flow.

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Prevent auto save on specific entities in Dataverse | MSDYNAMICSBLOG BY DEEPESH

Deepesh had a client requirement to prevent auto save on certain entities. He demonstrates how he achieved it in this blog.

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How to run JavaScript code when loading a model driven app? – XRM Tricks

Mehdi explores the dark-side by showing us an unsupported customization to run JavaScript when loading a model-driven app.

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Tips: Strategy For Fail-Proof Data Model – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

Temmy explains his strategy where data model can be dynamic based on the JSON implementation.

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Dataverse Client and ClientSecret AuthType ~ CRM Answers

Guido dives into how you can make the transition from old CrmServiceClient to new ServiceClient and also explains what are the pros/cons.

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Power Apps Patch Function Error Handling - Matthew Devaney

It is important to perform patch function error handling In Power Apps any time you are updating records in a datasource.

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How to calculate the height of a flexible height gallery! | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict

Flexible height galleries, although useful, can be painful if you want to calculate the exact height. Learn how to do that!

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🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Resubmit your failed Power Automate flow runs automatically using M365 CLI and REST API – Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

Mohd. Ashiq demonstrates us a nice way to resubmitting our failed flows.

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Assign/Remove Security Roles to Users Via Power Automate – The Techie dood

Ever wanted to automate assigning or removing security roles from users then Dineshkumar got you covered in this post.

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👍 Everything else in Power Platform

How to Dynamically show/hide buttons on entity list grid in PowerApps portals - Debajit's Blog

This was easier then I thought. Super easy trick by Debajit to show hide button on grid in Power Apps Portals.

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Visualise your Power BI refresh - in real-time - Phil Seamark on DAX

How to build a process using Visual Studio Code that allows you to visualize and analyze a Power BI dataset refresh in real-time.

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🔨 Tools & Components

SQL 4 CDS 5.1 Released - Mark Carrington

This is mainly a bug fix release based on reports from users and telemetry. If you’ve hit problems running queries with SQL 4 CDS v5, please update to v5.1 and try again.

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⛅ Around Microsoft Graph

Using Power Automate and Graph API to manage External access to Teams – LinkeD365 Home

Our own guest newsletter editor, Carl, explains the process of adding external users to a Microsoft Team. Oh and it goes through an approval process as well.

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🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Update Resolved and Cancelled Cases Programmatically - Inogic

Power Automate: finding Dataverse environment URL - Thomas Sandsør

Better management of SharePoint Document Libraries for Dynamics 365 - Elaiza Benitez

How to get Choice label value from Dataverse in Power Automate - Debajit Dutta

🎥 Videos

Power Automate Flows from Power BI

Using SignalR and ASP.NET Core for real-time communication

🔊 Podcasts

XrmToolCast: SQL 4 CDS Improvements With Mark Carrington

In this episode, Daryl & Scott talk to brand new baby MVP Mark Carrington, creator of the SQL 4 CDS XTB tool, about his new improvements.

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🐤 Tweets of the week

Natraj Yegnaraman

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How do you get rid of the borders in PCF Fabric UI ComboBox? IComboBoxStyles does not seem to work. #pcfchamps https://t.co/Ha0FKDFCJr

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