Dec 14, 2020

Power Platform Weekly - Issue #9

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Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week Microsoft announced two updates for Power Automate - Process Advisor is now in preview and Power Automate Desktop is now general available. Have a look under Videos and you’ll find community content about Process Advisor!

Have you heard of Adaptive Cards but your’re not really sure about how and when to use them? Have a look under Tools & Code and you will find out more about that.

Get ready for a Christmas Holiday themed Community Call on Wednesday, have a look under Events & Webinars and you’ll find all details needed.

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

Thanks for reading!

Articles

How to trigger Power Automate flows from Model-Driven Power App Business Process Flows (and get a response!) – ReadyXRM

MVP Nick Doelman shows us how to add a Power Automate flow to a Business Process Flow and also how to update the BPF from that flow.

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Power Apps Portals - Concepts and Features - Mastering requirements and solution envisioning for Microsoft Business Applications

MVP Dani Kahil explains his interpretation of the concepts and features delivered by Power Apps Portals.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Create a Team, add Members in Microsoft Teams upon Project and Team Members creation in PSA / Project Operations | Power Automate by Priyesh Wagh

👩‍💻 Dataverse Paging with Distinct by Mark Carrington

🦸🏻‍♀️ Virtual Entities Revisited: using embedded canvas app for updates by Alex Shlega

🤵🏻 Power Platform | Team-Up with SAP ecosystem by Carsten Groth

🦸🏻‍♀️ Creating Alert Rules & Managing Alerts In D365 Customer Voice by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ ‘Ghost’ lookup value following deployment by EY Kalman

👩‍💻 The challenges of using external data in the model-driven applications by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ [email-II] Creating contacts by Ramon Tebar

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dataverse views as Criteria’s definitions by Clément Olivier

🦸🏻‍♀️ Creating Alert Rules & Managing Alerts In D365 Customer Voice by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Importing time entries, Part II – Recalls by Antti Pajunen

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform for Admins connector (preview) in Power Automate by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Promote to Admin and Check Access – two buttons we can use to investigate access issues by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Intro to RPA (Desktop Flows) by Virtual Power Group (Paddy Byrne)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Social Posting with the December 2020 update of Dynamics 365 Marketing by Jesper Osgaard

Tools & Code

👩‍💻 Using Power Automate to Generate Dynamic Tabular Data Within Adaptive Cards | The CRM Chap

You may have heard of Adaptive Cards, but not really understood how they work. MVP Joe Griffin explains Adaptive Cards - a modern tool for allowing open exchanges of information between a variety of different systems - and shows how to use them.

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👩‍💻 DevOps Dataverse ALM using Power Apps CLI: a source centric approach – Part 2 by Diana Birkelbach

🦸🏻‍♀️ Bulk Data Updater documentation by Jonas Rapp

👩‍💻 Set the subject hierarchy field on Products, Cases, Sales Literature and Articles using Easypro by Inogic

Videos

Process Advisor 101

Welcome and How to Build and Scale a Local Community

Power Automate Desktop - monitoring, logs, runs details

Podcasts

🦸🏻‍♀️ Sharon Sumner on The MVP Show

Sharon Sumner chats about her journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP, her passion, and her involvement with the community and events!

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👩‍💻 XrmToolCast: Tools for your Power Automate Flow Woes with Brand New MVP Matt Collins-Jones!

Brand new MVP, Matt Collins-Jones, talks about his top 4 tools for creating Power Automate Flows, and the tools that we wish existed.

xrmtoolcast.libsyn.com • Share

🚀 What Is SharePoint Syntex?

Ben and Scott start digging into SharePoint Syntex by exploring the “document understanding” capabilities of the service.

www.msclouditpropodcast.com • Share

Events & Webinars

📅 Join us to Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams

Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams is happening on Dec 16 at 9:00 AM PST. Join for a two-hour live stream event for developers by developers.

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📅 Power Apps Community call - December 16th

December 16th at 8:00 AM PST there will be a Power Apps holiday-themed community call with Clarissa Gillingham, Jese Navaranjan, and Sharon Sumner all hosted by Todd Baginski!

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📅 Urdu Hindi Microsoft 365 Bootcamp

365 Saturday Bootcamp is free after prior registration. Even though the event is free, organizers are making every effort to ensure that it is on the highest possible level.

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Out of the blue

🦸🏻‍♀️ Take a tour of process advisor and new RPA enhancements

Microsoft announced two updates for Power Automate that further democratize across the entire organization: Process advisor, now available in preview, and Microsoft Power Automate Desktop, now generally available.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps portals: Configure Azure AD B2C provider for portals in a new way (Preview)

Preview is available now to set up Azure AD B2C with portals using a wizard for a quick configuration directly from the Power Apps portals authentication settings.

powerapps.microsoft.com • Share

🦸🏻‍♀️ Microsoft Dataverse support for Power BI Direct Query reaches general availability

Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Dataverse support for Power BI Direct Query.

powerapps.microsoft.com • Share

🦸🏻‍♀️ New Microsoft Dynamics 365 learning paths - November update

Take a look at the new role-based learning paths that were released last month on Microsoft Learn!

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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

📅 Events & Webinars

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