Power Platform Weekly - Issue #102
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week Microsoft Ignite was held and as usual lots of announcements were made. Don't miss the Ignite 2022 Book of News. Here are some of the highlights:
Power Pages is now GA, read about licensing.
Managed Environments is now GA, also see this article.
AI + Power Automate, e.g. Description to cloud flow.
Here's a mix of Microsoft & Community Ignite summaries:
Microsoft Ignite October 2022: Top 5 Power Platform Announcements (IN 5 MINUTES) (Video) by Lisa Crosbie
Microsoft Ignite 2022: Power Platform & Microsoft Teams announcement highlights by Rishona Elijah
Julie Yack has released free certification prep. material for PL-900 on LinkedIn Learning, have a look here.
Thanks for reading and have a great week!
📰 Articles



You describe it, AI builds it: trying out the new way to create cloud flows
🦸🏻♀️ Rishona Elijah shows a new feature coming to Power Automate: "You describe it, AI builds it". This feature aims to make flow building even easier, by allowing you to simply type a description of a flow you want to build, and the flow will be automatically generated for you.
Regex in Dataverse Search
🦸🏻♀️ In order to find the correct Dataverse record in App Service or any other application we often use Web API web service to perform HTTP requests with filters. But what is the filter value contains additional symbols? Elizabeth Akinfieva shows how to solve this issue.
The PCF Control Framework chooses Esbuild-Loader for Faster Build Time
👩💻 The PCF control framework recently revamped the bundling process to use esbuild-loader. David Rivard takes this opportunity to nerd-out on the bundling process of a PCF control and see if this change really measures up.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ How to implement a Power Automate progress indicator in Power Apps by Luise Freese
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps portals is now Power Pages by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Perform complex Dataverse FetchXml queries using Power Fx (from a Canvas App) by Scott Durow
👩💻 Perform ExecuteMultiple in batches and changesets from TypeScript using dataverse-ify version 2 by Scott Durow
🦸🏻♀️ Use custom pages to generate documents in model-driven Power Apps by Amey Holden
👩💻 “pac pcf push” Not Updating the PCF Component by Diana Birkelbach
🦸🏻♀️ Revising quotes in Project Operations by Antti Pajunen
🦸🏻♀️ Ask Me Anything: How To Become A Power Platform Developer by Matthew Devaney
👩💻🛠️ Dataverse DevTools v. 2.0.17 has been released (LinkedIn post) by Danish Naglekar
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