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Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #79

#79・ Sep 15, 2021

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Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #79

By Power Platform Developers • Issue #79 • View online

Welcome to Power Platform Developers Weekly!

The first Power Virtual Agent template is released by Microsoft and thanks to Joe Unwin who helped them create the documentation.

Ever had a perplexity to use cloud flows or plugins? The post from Alex Shlega might help you made the right decision.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

A new “global” directive for “using” was added in C# 10. Check this tweet that explains its usage.

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🥇 Cover Story

Spkl setup for multiple assemblies » Benedikt's Power Platform Blog

In this post you will learn how to setup spkl to be able to deploy multiple plugin assemblies with one command.

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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Enforce unique email but ignore inactive records | Tip Of The Day

Using this tip you can always make sure you never will have any duplicates in your system.

crmtipoftheday.com • Share

Enable in-app notifications easily - Dynamics Ninja

A simple JavaScript snippet to enable in-app notification for multiple apps in multiple environments.

dynamicsninja.blog • Share

Dataverse: Testing Database Transactions On Custom API – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

Check out what Temmy finds in his test to prove whether Custom APIs run under transactions.

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Interactive Charts & Reports With Power BI Tiles In Power Apps

In this article, I will show you how to use Power BI tiles to make interactive charts and show full Power BI reports inside an app.

matthewdevaney.com • Share

How to switch from New to Edit Form after record creation in Canvas Apps? - Debajit's Blog

This post explains the way to switch from a new form to an edit form in canvas apps and open a record for edit immediately after creating it.

debajmecrm.com • Share

Building responsive, consistent and reusable apps in your organization - Part 2 : The App

The goal of this series is to build a reference app that demonstrates possible design patterns to help us make applications that are structured,

powerusers.microsoft.com • Share

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Automatically Create SharePoint Folder Structure Based on Specific Table in Dataverse Using Cloud Flow (Part 3 of 6)

In this article, Linn shows us the intricacies of naming the folder & creating a SharePoint document using a cloud flow.

linnzawwin.blogspot.com • Share

Use of Custom API in Power Automate Flow | Inogic

In this blog, we will see how to use the same Custom API in a Power Automate Flow.

www.inogic.com • Share

How to use OAuth2.0 in Power Automate Custom Connector

Learn how to perform OAuth authentication against Microsoft Logins when creating a custom connector.

powerusers.microsoft.com • Share

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Dataverse Custom API | It Ain't Boring

Alex tries out Custom API and compares it with the classic custom actions.

www.itaintboring.com • Share

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Fetching data with React hooks and Axios - DEV Community

If you have not tried Axios or React Hooks yet then definitely check this post.

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🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Multiselect Lookup control PCF now available in a model-driven app - Inogic

How to swap Camera to front and back in Power Apps Canvas Apps - Debajit Dutta

Pretty user interfaces shouldn’t be a premium feature - Scott Durow

A series on deprecation of actions in connectors by Phil Cole:

Part 1: Initial deep dive into identifying the deprecations
Part 2:Improving the output from the cloud flow
Part 3: Create Open API definition
Part 4: Create a script to perform checks on Power Platform solutions.

🎥 Videos

Microsoft Dataverse Overview

Power Apps Custom Pages & Power Fx

🔊 Podcasts

XrmToolCast: The Rise of Jonas

Daryl and Scott hang out with Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and have a fireside chat without talking about any technical topic or tools and stuff.

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🐤 Tweets of the week

Luise Freese 👑 MVP | 🚀🧠💻✍ 27/#100DaysOfCode

@LuiseFreese

Did you know that you could link your #GitHub profile to your #Microsoft365Dev tenant to keep your tenant alive?

#M365PnP https://t.co/IuM45xSU17

5:54 AM - 8 Sep 2021

Natraj Yegnaraman

@RajYRaman

#AzureFunctions Open API extension is just magic. It makes it super easy to use Functions along with custom connector. https://t.co/GqOiRHoD2q https://t.co/uLnRW4RzIv

12:39 AM - 11 Sep 2021

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🥈 Silver - David Wade

🏆 Platinum - AgileXRM

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