Jun 23, 2021

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #67

By Power Platform Developers • Issue #67 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

Great news for all the developers who uses Visual Studio. A new 2022 preview version is now available. This one has a feature called IntelliCode that suggests and completes the entire line of code for you. If you haven’t seen the video yet then check this out.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

As mentioned above in the announcement a new advanced lookup experience was launched in the model-driven app and as usual Nishant Rana and Priyesh Wagh were quick on their feet to provide a detailed blog to show us how to turn on that experience and any pitfalls you should be aware of.

Thanks to the cover story from Natraj Yegnaraman which prompted David Rivard to share a preview of his upcoming tool on Twitter. Click here to checkout David’s tweet that contains the image of his tool.

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🥇 Cover Story

Using Custom API as a trigger for Flow | Dreaming in CRM & Power Platform

Natraj walks us through the process it takes to enable a Custom API built in Dataverse to be triggered from a Cloud Flow. Well it does make sense why David Rivard is creating a new tool for this 😊.

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Add Sparkle XRM to a Webresources project » Benedikt's Blog

In this blog post, you will learn how to add Sparkle XRM to a Web Resources project to automate your deployment.

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Integrate the approval center into a model driven app – XRM Tricks

Mehdi provides an innovative solution that lets you manage Power Automate approvals in model-driven app.

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Power Apps Filter A Gallery By Date Range Examples - Matthew Devaney

Matt has provided a guide (which he promises to keep updated) that will help you filter a gallery by date. Be sure to bookmark this amazing collection.

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🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

How to convert JSON array from cloud flow into a collection in canvas app - Debajit's Blog

Debajit demonstrates a cool way of converting a JSON array that can be consumed by canvas app in a supported way.

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2 Ways to insert dates into Excel using Power Automate

Pieter shows us how to insert dates into Excel in two different ways.

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🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Lookup PCF – let’s dive deeper – Dianamics PCF Lady

Lookup PCF…the second…this time for real! Diana does not go rouge this time and confirms that the lookup feature was truly released for PCF before she can write this post. Checkout what she finds.

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👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Use Omnichannel Proactive Chat to Engage with Your Customers - Carl de Souza

In this post, we will look at how to set up Omnichannel Proactive Chat in order to engage with your customers.

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👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Let's Create a Custom Hook in React 🐱‍👤 - DEV Community

In this article, we are about to explain how can you create a custom hook in React. Because using React this way, might really change the way you develop components 😉

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⛅ Around Azure

How to Wrap Cloud Flow using Azure API Management – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

Temmy ran into issues when he was calling cloud flows from web hooks configured in Dataverse. So to fix it he looked into Azure API Management service.

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How to setup – Azure Synapse Link – Microsoft Dataverse – Nishant Rana's Weblog

Azure Synapse Link (earlier known as Export to Data Lake Service) provides seamless integration of Dataverse. It does come with lot of benefits. Learn from Nishant how to set it up.

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🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Async OnSave handlers in DataVerse to cancel save operation, stop save till certain async events are executed - Debajit Dutta

EasyRepro tips - Alex Shlega

Back to Basics # 8: Download Dynamics CRM Tools Using Power Shell - Venkata Subbarao Polsietty

🎥 Videos

You asked, I built - Virtual Entity over POA Table

Ep.06: Shaminder Singh on The DevConnect Show

🔊 Podcasts

XrmToolCast: Ben Vollmer Breaks the Internet

In this episode, the crew talk to Ben Vollmer, former Global Director for Field Service, about his involvement in the bringing down CRM Online for the entire world. It’s a true blast from the past as most of it was before Daryl even logged into CRM online, and so long that Scott has forgotten most of it.

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🐤 Tweets of the week

Jukka Niiranen #ForwardForever

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When designing Model-driven app forms in #PowerApps & #MSDyn365, keep in mind that form footers are going away in a few month's time: https://t.co/ZxsVZxOCde https://t.co/zbvbjQ0X8a

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