Power Platform Weekly #1

New newsletter with Power Platform related content!

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

It has been two weeks since we said goodbye to Dynamics Weekly. A big THANK YOU to Guido Preite ⭐ for the amazing work behind the #149 issues! It was sad to see it come to an end and somehow it left behind a gap to be filled.

New times are here and with that a new newsletter. Let us present Power Platform Weekly! This first issue will include featured content from the past two weeks.

To help identify content that might be more relevant to you, we are experimenting with some “Persona Icons”. Look for these near each headline:

🤵🏻 Business User

🦸🏻‍♀️ Maker

🧭 Decision Maker

👩‍💻 Developer/Architect

Enjoy and do not forget that there is also Power Platform Developers Weekly!

Articles

MVP Jukka Niiranen continues to be our guide in the licensing jungle - here is a review of the October 2020 edition for Dynamics 365. CE gone for good? Take a look at what Jukka says about that!

You can use Emojis in Power Platform, but did you know that Unicode text also works, which makes custom fonts possible? MVP Megan V. Walker shows us how.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Working with Environment Variables in Canvas Power Apps and Power Automate Flows by Joe Griffin

🦸🏻‍♀️ Pause and resume enhancements in SLA in Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Just 3 clicks to disable an action in Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ Recieve a weekly summary email of new D365 opportunities using Power Automate by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Forms Tips and Tricks - Part 2 by Sancho Harker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Include a link to the record when sending an email from Dynamics 365/CDS using flow by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ Can’t see “Edit Filters” button in the classic solution designer for a view? Here is one reason why by Alex Shlega

Tools & Code

The amazing Carl Cookson does it again. With his fourth XrmToolBox tool we can get our Power Automate flows documented automatically!

👩‍💻 Transform Forms into Dialogs and more by Diana Birkelbash

👩‍💻 FetchXML Late Materialize by Mark Carrington

🦸🏻‍♀️ Progress Indicator Component by Matthew Devaney

Videos

Podcasts

In the twentieth episode MVP Megan V. Walker and MVP Lisa Crosbie cover Power Platform news as well as discuss all things emojis!

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps and Teams with Shane Young MVP Shane Young talks about Power Apps + Teams and Project Oakdale at CRM Rocks. 

🦸🏻‍♀️ How Microsoft will change the world (again) via Automation Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna talks about RPA at Intelligent Automation Radio.

🤵🏻 Episode 90: An MVP Guide to CRM Data Quality MVP Gus Gonzalez shares 10 things you can do to make sure your data quality is always high.

Upcoming events

Come and join some of the best teachers, trainers and Power Platform MVP's from around the world as they bring 9 hours of back-to-back training and tutorial sessions live and on-demand to you!

Take a look at the amazing line-up of speakers for this ✨ special edition ✨ of D365 Saturday, where the Common Data Service and Project Oakdale is the the center of attention!

Out of the blue

👩‍💻 Introducing the Relevance Search API Power Apps Blog introduces API for Relevance Search.

🦸🏻‍♀️ RPA Playbook for SAP GUI Automation with Power Automate Power Automate Blog announces a new RPA Playbook.