Power Platform Weekly - Issue #101

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

The Power Apps September 2022 Feature Update was presented last week. We also got a preview announcement, Test Engine, an open platform for automated testing of canvas apps.

Scott Durow released a Vlog part 2 of his video series from Microsoft Power Platform Conference. Speaking of Microsoft events, Microsoft Ignite week is here! A guide to Power Platform at Microsoft Ignite has been presented.

Know what you do and be aware of the business consequences when using tools from the community. Last week Aidan Kaskela wrote an article related to this topic. We also spotted a new browser extension, PrettifyMyWebApi for Dynamics/Power Platform from Erik Donker.

Thanks for reading and have a great week!

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Articles

Featured articles from Benedikt Bergmann, Scott Durow and Ivan Ficko

Export Dataverse data to SQL using Data Lake and ADF

🦸🏻‍♀️ Benedikt Bergmann explains how to export Dataverse data to an Azure SQL using Data Lake and Azure Data Factory.

How to update multiple records in a model-driven app grid using Power Fx commanding

🦸🏻‍♀️ Scott Durow shows how we can most effectively update all selected records using a button with Power Fx.

Virtual Tables – Custom Ownership

👩‍💻 People have asked Ivan Ficko if there is a blog post about how to set up custom security on SQL Virtual Tables that are available out of the box via the virtual connector. This is that blog post.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to make a auto-height textinput component for Power Apps by Luise Freese

🦸🏻‍♀️ Referrer URL on Dynamics 365 Marketing forms for better marketing attribution by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to – Provision / Setup Omnichannel for Customer Service trial by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Modern Advanced Find & View Management Model Driven Apps by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Enable AI generated conversation summary (preview) by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Do Power Platform updates come as a surprise? by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 Account & Contact Management Using Power Automate by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Showing indirectly related records in the form’s grid by Andrew Butenko

🦸🏻‍♀️ Return A Collection From A Flow To Power Apps With ParseJSON by Matthew Devaney

👩‍💻🛠️ Dataverse DevTools update (LinkedIn post) by Danish Naglekar

👩‍💻 Power Automate: (Experiment) Migrate Dataverse Legacy to Latest Dataverse Connector by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

👩‍💻 Learn how to use story point estimation to estimate the relative size of your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform application's requirements.

🧭 In this episode of the Microsoft Spotlight podcast, the hosts are joined by Maryam Riaz who is Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Maryam tells us about her journey into the world of IT and her experience as an Asian Women In Tech. 

🦸🏻‍♀️ This week, Merlin and Ashley discuss some areas where model-driven isn't the right answer, or simply won't work, and expand on how canvas apps can help.

📅 Events & Webinars

📅 October 10th-13th - Summit NA is packed with 600+ informative and educational sessions to deliver end-to-end learning around all versions of Dynamics 365 FO/AX, CE/CRM & BC/NAV, Dynamics GP & SL, and the Microsoft Power Platform.

📅 October 12th-14th - Save the date and explore the latest innovations, learn from product experts, and level up your skillset – join us to help shape the future of tech.

📅 October 14th-15th - A free-of-charge two-day event for professional people working with Microsoft technology. It focuses on all three pillars of the Microsoft platform: Business Applications, Modern Workplace, and Azure.

📅 November 17th-18th - The Microsoft Dataverse Summit is taking place on the 17th & 18th of November 2022 for Beginner to Advanced. Deep Dive Sessions on Dataverse Administration and Development for PowerApps, Power Automate, Power BI, and More!

💙 Out of the Blue

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 This week, the initial preview of Test Engine, an evolution of the Power Apps testing tools got announced. Test Engine builds upon the key use cases of Test Studio, but takes it in a new, powerful direction through open-source collaboration and the use of the Playwright browser testing platform.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 The Power BI team introduced the Azure DevOps extension GA and the new deployment history feature. All your recent month's deployments are available to be reviewed providing details on the target environment, such as the person who ran the deployment, the deployed items, the deployment note’s content (if been added), and more.

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 Ignite is just around the corner! Microsoft listed the sessions for all things Microsoft Power Platform. Make sure to check this blog out to help you choose!

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 September was a month with a lot of new feature updates! This blog summarizes all the new updates like named formulas, SP list image support, the parseJSON function, and more!

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