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Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #81

Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #81
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Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly!
Danish is still enjoying vacation, so Carl has stepped in again to bring you the latest and greatest from the Developer angle of the Power Platform.
This week has been all about tools. Ivan Ficko created a great tool to generate In-App Notifications easily within XrmToolBox. Linn Zaw Win has a great write up here.
Also, Jonas launches his tool to ease the pain when developing workflows, plugins et all, his XRM Tokens Runner. So excited to see him back!
From Microsoft this week, it was announced Gartner recognizes the Power Platform as a Leader in the Enterprise Low-Code App platform category. This is a great endorsement of our platform and highlights the place developers make in the future of Low-Code.
Also from Microsoft:
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🥇 Cover Story
Power Apps Automated Testing with Playwright - Joe Gill
Joe knocks it out of the park by showing us how to use Playwright for Power Apps Automated Testing.
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💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Embed Images in Model-Driven In-App Notifications - It Must Be Code!
Embed Images in Model-Driven In-App Notifications - It Must Be Code!
Use NASA Image of the Day (APOD) API inside Power Automate to create visually rich and appealing In-App Notifications for Power Platform model-driven apps.
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How to avoid a Dataverse jungle – Carina M. Claesson
How to avoid a Dataverse jungle – Carina M. Claesson
Carina highlights the importance of data quality in any application, including tips on Duplicate management.
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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps
Create Swagger API and Consume It In Canvas-Apps – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Create Swagger API and Consume It In Canvas-Apps – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy drives through how to connect a Canvas app utilising a Swagger API
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🐱‍🏍 Power Automate
Hide Passwords In Power Automate Flows (and API Keys, Secrets) - Matt Devaney
Hide Passwords In Power Automate Flows (and API Keys, Secrets) - Matt Devaney
Matt shows us how to hide passwords in Power Automate flow by using Azure Key Vault and securing flow inputs and outputs.
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Calculate travel distance using Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra
Calculate travel distance using Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra
When you have an app that has a current location and a destination postcode and you want to calculate travel distances, you could use Power Automate.
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Parse CSV through Code in Power Automate Custom Connection — John Liu .NET
Parse CSV through Code in Power Automate Custom Connection — John Liu .NET
I was inspired reading Alex Shlega and Hiroaki Nagao ’s posts on using code with custom connections. So I set out to give it a go and work on another common problem I have: Parse CSV First a picture showing you how it works.
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🚀 PCF & Custom Pages
Create Multi Select Optionset using PCF Control | Inogic
Create Multi Select Optionset using PCF Control | Inogic
Inogic shares with us a solution to create a multi-select control in PCF.
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👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Consuming REST API using HTTP connector of Power Automate Flow from Power Virtual Agents - Inogic
Consuming REST API using HTTP connector of Power Automate Flow from Power Virtual Agents - Inogic
Roohi Shaikh shows how you can link Power Virtual Agents and any REST API using Power Automate
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Power Apps Bulk Data Operations | Create, Update, Delete, Copy & Import | SharePoint List
Power Apps Bulk Data Operations | Create, Update, Delete, Copy & Import | SharePoint List
This video on is a step-by-step tutorial on performing Bulk Data Operations in PowerApps with a SharePoint List. We will bulk create, update, copy, delete & …
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🔨 Tools & Components
👩‍💻 Dev to the Core
The Wonderful World of GitHub Actions
The Wonderful World of GitHub Actions
Chris Lloyd-Jones walks through creating GitHub Actions to automate your development cycle.
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⛅ Around Azure
Resubmitting failed Logic Apps using Power Automate - Natraj Yegnaraman
Resubmitting failed Logic Apps using Power Automate - Natraj Yegnaraman
Even though each Logic App action has a retry policy, after a certain number of retries, the Logic App engine gives up and fails the whole execution. In these scenarios the Logic App needs to be re-run. You can use Power Automate to handle this scenario. You can download the Power Automate solution from https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvzjERKFC6gOx3-NptgmlSyD4FVu?e=vwxyAE…
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🎮 Other Interesting Articles
🎥 Videos
In-app notifications in model-driven Power Apps @365.Training #Shorts
In-app notifications in model-driven Power Apps @365.Training #Shorts
Power Apps: Hidden Gems Series #19
Power Apps: Hidden Gems Series #19
🔊 Podcasts
XrmToolCast: Matt Beard and Dataverse Format Changer
XrmToolCast: Matt Beard and Dataverse Format Changer
Daryl and Scott interview Matt Beard, fellow MVP and a data nerd, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse Format Changer. 
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🐤 Tweets of the week
Matt Bierner
Today's @code setting: Copy relative path separator

Override the path separator used in file paths copied from the explorer or tabs

Especially helpful on Windows for using / instead of \ in copied paths

#code2020 https://t.co/Vvgo9SzRpf
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