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Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #95

#95・ Jan 5, 2022

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Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #95

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Welcome to the first issue of 2022 for Power Platform Developers Weekly!

Starting this new year with 2 cover stories by two awesome community members & MVPs.

As there were a bunch of good blogs on the security model including the new matrix data access structure; I have consolidated them below:

Microsoft Dataverse security model intro by Alex Shlega
Modernize Business Units by Nishant Rana
Matrix data access structure by Alex Shlega

Now for some updates from Microsoft.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

Introducing the portal search powered by Microsoft Dataverse search API

Priyesh Wagh has started a plugin-development series of blogs for beginners; do check it out.

Don’t forget to check out the Quiz of the week section to win some exciting prizes at the end of this year.

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🥇 Cover Story

Debugging Custom API plugins using Plugin Registration Tool - Andrew Butenko's Blog

Custom API is a great feature that was brought to the platform to replace Actions developers used to use for years. But how do you debug it?! Andrew shows you the process in this article.

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Power Apps Studio and GitHub 🚀 ⋆ The Power Platform Trenches

Working with the canvas app is really nice, but we all need to look at the code. The harsh raw code. Jonas showcases the new features and his experience with Git on canvas apps.

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❓ Quiz of the week

How many types of web resources exists in Dataverse

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes

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The answer to the last newsletter issue was: Post-operation, Pre-validation & Pre-operation

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Retrieve Quick View Value using JavaScript - Power Platform Community

Wonder how to fetch values from a Quick View form embedded on the main form. This post got you covered.

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How to cancel the merge cascade for a given relationship? – XRM Tricks

If a relationship is set to merge cascade all but you want to cancel that operation then read this blog.

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🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Navigating Folders & Subfolders In A SharePoint Document Library using canvas apps

Matt will show you an example of how to view SharePoint document library files, folders, and subfolders in canvas apps.

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😎 Power Automate

Setup a Service Principal in Power Automate » Benedikt's Power Platform Blog

In this blog post you will learn how to setup a Service Principal to authenticate again Dataverse in Power Automate.

benediktbergmann.eu • Share

Handling nonexistent, null and multi value type properties in Parse JSON action – Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

In this post, Ashiq shows how to parse JSON action that either contains null or multi-value or sometimes does not exist in the JSON data but is part of the JSON schema.

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🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Adaptive Cards in PCF

In this article, Elizabeth wants to share how Adaptive Cards can be used in PCF controls. Adaptive Cards provide an easy render of text and input controls of different types.

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👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Filter Excel table using Power Automate Desktop • Tomasz Poszytek, Business Applications MVP

Tomasz shows us how to use Power Automate Desktop to filter Excel tables. Check it out!

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🔨 Tools & Components

PVA to Visio Builder – XrmToolBox Tool – LinkeD365 Home

Our guest blogger is back with another new tool for XrmToolBox called PVA to Visio Builder. Check out his new tool and improve your documentations.

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👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Azure-MSAL: Implement loginRedirect In Angular+Call CRM Action – Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

In this blog post, we learn how to display CRM data into SPA (Vue.js). For that purpose, we are using @azure/msal-browser. So, if you want to get familiar with using MSAL in SPA check out this post.

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⛅ Around Azure

Create custom connector for own API » Benedikt's Power Platform Blog

In this blog post, you will learn how to set up a custom connector for a custom API hosted in Azure using Azure AD for authentication.

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🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Retrieving the formatted label text from a choice in Power Automate when using Dataverse - Lewis Baybutt

Hiding Special buttons from Dynamics 365 CE - Mahender Pal

How to overcome the Power Automate Approvals 30 days limit - Dawid Ziolkowski

How to WIN/LOSE Dynamics 365 CRM Opportunity through Power Automate Flow - Inogic

🎥 Videos

How to create Cascading (Dependent) Dropdowns in Power Apps

Microsoft Power Apps Excel Add-in

🔊 Podcasts

XrmToolCast: A Special Thank You Episode From Daryl

This is a special thank you episode from Daryl where he thanks 10 individuals that have made a significant impact on the XrmToolCast.

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🐤 Tweets of the week

Hiro

@mofumofu_dance

Git version control in #PowerApps is awesome

Demo: https://t.co/yt2mhwP1hf

1:55 AM - 4 Jan 2022

💖 GitHub Sponsors

Thanks to the following people for being the sponsors:

🥈 Silver - David Wade

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