Nov 2, 2020

Power Platform Weekly - Issue #3

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Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week we had a featured community article about Custom APIs. This week the preview of Custom APIs was announced on the Power Apps blog, take a look under the Out of the blue section. Also, Microsoft Docs is updated with a chapter about Custom APIs.

Under Tools & Code you will find a very interesting featured article, but please make sure to think twice before getting any ideas about your specific use cases!

We use “Persona Icons” 🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀, these are explained at the end of this newsletter.

Thanks for reading!

Articles

👩‍💻 Working with the Remote Execution Context in Power Automate – Implementing Tae of <T>

Power Platform & Dynamics 365 Specialist Tae-Rim Han explains how to build a flow that extracts and consumes the remote execution context in a no-code approach. If you have not found your way to Tae’s blog before - now’s the time. This blog is definitely worth a visit!

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🦸🏻‍♀️ How to setup a Common Data Service Application User (and why) – ReadyXRM

When you build custom solutions where you need to create, read, update or delete data in the Common Data Service (including Dynamics 365 apps), you don’t necessarily want that application to use specific user credentials to do its work. MVP Nick Doelman explains what a CDS Application User is and when you might need one.

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🤵🏻 Improved duplicate detection and merge experience in Dynamics 365 for Sales– 2020 Release Wave 2 by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Marketing & an unusual error by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to make a field required dynamically in Power Apps canvas app by Debajit Dutta

👩‍💻 Migrate Schedule Board(s) to other environments by Thomas Dayman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Make A Power Apps Approvals Form by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Creating an Omni Channel Engagement Hub Trial by Tricia Sinclair

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Portal Series Wrap Up by Virtual Power Group

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Custom Connector Series #2 – OMDb/IMDb by Matt Beard

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform geographical availability by Ramon Tebar

🦸🏻‍♀️ Stop Using Email for Notifications. Use Teams! by Joseph C. Markovich

🦸🏻‍♀️ Use Power Automate to copy multiple selections from Choice columns between Microsoft Lists by Norm Young

🦸🏻‍♀️ Run As context in CDS (Current Environment) Flow Trigger by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ No Code HR - Ideas of the month by Kamal Radhakrishnaiah

Tools & Code

👩‍💻 Bypassing CDS Plugins - Mark Carrington

This is an interesting article from Chief Technologist Mark Carrington. There is a way to avoid plugins from being executed?! Interesting but make sure to THINK TWICE about your use case before implementing this approach, the plugins are most likely there for a reason.

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👩‍💻 Custom Translations – the Easy Way by Jonas Rapp

👩‍💻 Extending Common Data Service using Azure Function – Part 1 by Allan De Castro

👩‍💻 Formatting Output result for your actions in Custom Connector by Roohi Shaikh (Inogic)

👩‍💻 How to call Xrm.WebApi using TypeScript by Benedikt Bergmann

👩‍💻 Extracting Dynamics 365 / Power Apps Solutions Using YAML (Azure DevOps) by Joe Griffin

👩‍💻 Match the theme of Dynamics 365 App in Power Apps Control Framework – Part 1 by Inogic

👩‍💻 Access token endpoint versions in Azure AD by Joris Poelmans

Videos

Create mobile apps in Project Oakdale for Microsoft Teams

Power Virtual Agents Tutorial - Create a Free Chatbot in Microsoft Teams

Enable Power BI in Microsoft Teams for EVERYONE!

Podcasts

🚀 The Power Platform ALM Starter Kit by XrmToolCast

MVPs Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp and their guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft talks about the (almost released) Power Platform ALM Starter Kit, a tool to help manage and solve all your Power Platform ALM woes!

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👩‍💻 Power Automate inline code editor and Project Oakdale - CRM Audio

MVPs Joel Lindstrom, George Doubinski, and Shawn Tabor talk about both George’s new in-line code editor function for Power Automate and as well as Project Oakdale vs. CDS.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Episode 22 - Imposter Syndrome & Twitch - The UP Podcast

MVPs Megan V. Walker and Lisa Crosbie talk about Dynamics 365 Fundraising & Engagement, Imposter Syndrome, understanding Twitch and online streaming, The West Wing and The Rap Game!

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Out of the blue

👩‍💻 Introducing Custom API preview Custom API preview is announced on the Power Apps blog.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Mobile Offline for Power Apps Offline capabilities for Model-driven Apps announced on the Power Apps blog.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate: Easier setup, creation, and runtime configuration of UI flows (VIDEO)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Build a Bot - Episode 2 - Using Power Automate with your Power Virtual Agent (VIDEO)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps: Managing form settings (VIDEO)

About the "Persona Icons"

To help identify content that might be more relevant to you, the following “Persona Icons” are used:

🤵🏻 Business User

🦸🏻‍♀️ Maker

🧭 Decision Maker

👩‍💻 Developer / Architect

🚀 Admin / Center of Excellence

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By Power Platform Weekly

Power Platform Weekly is a weekly newsletter that will contain links to lots of community resources. It will give you all the insights on what's happening with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Power BI, Common Data Service (CDS) and Dynamics 365.

✍ Curated by Carina M. Claesson, Daniel Laskewitz, Ed Gonzales and Magnus Gether Sørensen.

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