Power Platform Weekly - Issue #105

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week the preview of formula repair was announced. Get help writing your Power Fx formulas.

We also got the Power Apps October 2022 Feature Update from Microsoft, summarizing new features in preview, what's new in Learn/docs and more.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful week!

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📰 Articles

Featured articles from Matthew Devaney, Ana Inés Urrutia and Allan De Castro

7 Power Apps Gallery Conditional Formatting Examples

🦸🏻‍♀️ Matthew Devaney wants to make Galleries in Canvas Apps to stand out. See how we for example can make positive values green and negative values red using conditional formatting in a Power Apps gallery.

D365 Human Resources for dummies

🦸🏻‍♀️ Ana Inés Urrutia has created a collection of links to resources for Dynamics 365 Human Resources. If you want to learn more about it, click through to see her post.

Write custom telemetry to Application Insights from Dataverse plug-in

👩‍💻 The Power Platform already has great integration with application insights. Allan De Castro takes us through the situations where you might want to do a custom version of that.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Generate Document From Word Template and Send As Email Attachment Using Cloud Flow by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 HR roadmap: what the future holds by Ana Inés Urrutia

👩‍💻 How to Call a Dataverse Custom API from a Canvas App by David Rivard

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 Sales Product forecasting - Part 1 by Dian Taylor

👩‍💻 (Quick Tip) Hiding fields by default on Power Pages - CSS way by Oleksandr Olashyn

🦸🏻‍♀️ [Power Apps – Geospatial features] How to implement a radius-based location search? by Mehdi El Amri

🦸🏻‍♀️ Upgrading from PSA to Project Operations in upgrade Phase 2 by Antti Pajunen

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

🧭 A conversation about Tracy Van der Schyff’s life – family, hobbies, what she does for fun when not working. She also talks about how she got into IT along with her experience in writing a book.

👩‍💻 Richard talks to Christina Wheeler about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and its role in the array of tooling in M365 to take existing scripting and wrap it into modern automated workflows. Christina talks about how Power Automate for Desktop can work with an Excel macro to further automation to make an entire process hands-off or reduce the number of touches you need to make.

🦸🏻‍♀️ The team recaps the latest #Microsoft365 updates from Microsoft Ignite 2022.

📅 Events & Webinars

📅 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!

📅 November 28th-December 1st - ESPC22 returns live and in-person in Copenhagen from 28 Nov to 1 Dec. The ESPC programme consists of 4 Microsoft Keynotes, 9 Tutorials and 120 Sessions which will enable you to leverage Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, SharePoint and more to your greatest ability.  

📅 December 6th-8th - During Microsoft 365 Conference you’ll discover what’s new from Microsoft executives including Jeff Teper and Charles Lamanna. You’ll dive deep into Viva, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Outlook, Yammer and more with Microsoft’s product leaders including Karuana Gatimu, Naomi Moneypenny, Mark Kashman and Dan Holme. And you’ll gain real-world insights from Microsoft MVPs, experts, and customers. 

📅 June 20th-22nd - The 2nd European Power Platform Conference (EPPC) will take place in Dublin, Ireland from June 20 – 22nd 2023. The European Power Platform Conference brings together the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Communities for 3 unrivalled days of in-person learning, connections, and inspiration.

💙 Out of the Blue

🦸🏻‍♀️ An amazing new feature is available in preview: formula repair! Formula repair gives you the possibility to fix formulas in a simple and user-friendly way.

🤵🏻🚀 If you are a customer that doesn't have any user licenses yet - make sure to check out this licensing offer!

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👩‍💻 Developer / Architect

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