Power Platform Weekly - Issue #118
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Automate for desktop February update was presented. A new storage schema for desktop flows in Dataverse was announced. The on-premises Data Gateway February release was presented.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles



Read-only nested editable grid
👩💻 Have you ever needed to show a subgrid with information from a table two relations away? In this blog post, Benedikt Bergmann shows how to create a read-only nested editable grid in Dataverse.
Power Platform Connectors - Go Custom
👩💻🦸🏻♀️ David Wyatt goes through his journey of finding an existing custom connector for ServiceNow. Finding it did not do enough. Finally, creating a new one which was easier to use and could do more.
Remove controls during print in Power Apps canvas apps.
🦸🏻♀️ Have you ever wanted to create a beautiful print out screen for your canvas app? Debajit Dutta show us a way to hide controls during a print view.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps - Named Formulas by Angelo Gulisano
🦸🏻♀️ 2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Customer Service | Part 2 by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps Filter Multiple Person Column (No Delegation Warning) by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ ‘With’ Function in Power Apps (Power Fx) by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ DataVerse Tip #7: Can’t delete a Table because of dependency of Type App Action by Mira Ghaly
👩💻 Dataverse: Setup spkl from pac plugin init project by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts



The MSDW Podcast
🧭 MSDW and MSCN Editors Jason Gumpert and Eamon McCarthy Earls discuss recent developments in the Microsoft channel, highlighting recent news and features, as well as ongoing trends and upcoming Microsoft Dynamics events.
Low Code Approach Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ You may have heard the term 'Citizen Developer' used when discussing low code development. What does it mean? What technical skills does one need to have in order to become a citizen developer? Do citizen developers get membership into a secret society? Find out more when EY Kalman, Microsoft MVP, MCT, and business applications solutions architect joins the podcast to let us know all about citizen developers!
Cloud Conversations Podcast
👩💻 In this week’s episode, Microsoft MVP, and Senior Cloud Architect at Cloudway, Merethe Stave joins Femke and Peter to discuss:
ChatGPT
Viva Explorers
Working at Cloudway
Tech Community events in Norway
📅 Events & Webinars



Finance & Supply Chain Summit
(📅 March 11th)
The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Summit will take place on March 11th in Lisbon, Portugal. The largest Microsoft ERP Community will be reuniting in Lisbon to address challenges of ERP delivering 5 Tracks of Deep Dive Sessions.
Dynamics Power Israel
(📅 March 30th)
Power Community (formerly 365 Saturday) is back in Tel Aviv for the 2nd Dynamics Power conference on March 30th at the Microsoft Reactor.
Iberian Technology Summit
(📅 April 28th-30th)
Establishing connection between people. As the rivers of Iberia established in the past and the evolution of technology does in the present, summit re-unites the Iberian community for better future.
Automation Summit & Microsoft Power Automate + Power Apps Developer Camp
(📅 May 19th-20th)
The Automation Summit 2023 will combine the Microsoft Power Automate & Power Apps Developer Bootcamp Live in London Paddington on 19th & 20th May 2023.
European Collaboration Summit
(📅 May 22nd-24th)
With 2500+ attendees, the European Collaboration Summit is the largest European conference focused on Modern Work and Microsoft 365, featuring topics such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Business Apps and Power Platform. It hosts high ranking Microsoft executives, program managers and architects as speakers, as well as numerous Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft MVPs. With 75+ sponsors and exhibitors year after year, it features the largest Microsoft 365 – related expo in the world.
Dynamics Minds
(📅 May 22nd-24th)
An Awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
European Power Platform Conference
(📅 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.
Dynamics 365 CX Summit
(📅 June 22nd-24th)
The Dynamics 365 Community will be reunited on 22nd-24th of June in Brussels, Belgium for the Microsoft Customer Experience Summit.
Scottish Summit 2023 (On Tour)
(📅 August 5th)
This year Scottish Summit goes on tour! This year, the Scottish Summit will not take place in Scotland, but in Manchester! Don’t miss this event since it will be a must-attend event!
Manchester Cloud Summit
(📅 September 15th-16th)
The Manchester Cloud Engineering M365 Summit will combine Cyber Security, A.I., Azure & Microsoft 365 Bootcamps Live in Manchester on 15th & 16th September 2023.
Nordic Summit
(📅 September 23rd)
Nordic Summit will be taking place as an in-person event on the 23rd of September 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Microsoft Power Platform Conference
(📅 October 3-5)
Get inspired by Microsoft’s senior thought leaders, software engineers, and community experts who are focused on uniting humanity and technology. You’ll also have the chance to hear from users that solve real business problems daily. Fantastic speakers are ready to share their insights on how to accelerate and transform your business with Power Platform.
💙 Out of the Blue
Power Automate desktop flows in Dataverse updates
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog post, the Power Automate desktop team announces an updated version of the desktop flow schema. This will save customers a lot of database capacity, since it will move a lot of data to the - much cheaper - file capacity. Also, in the blog post Microsoft also shows how you can avoid production disruptions.
February 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The February 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop introduces new features and updates such as:
Regions have now been introduced
Bring your own connection in SharePoint actions
Discover the breadth of the Power Platform with simple and scalable navigation
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This blog post introduces a new and simplified Power Apps portal left navigation pane that allows users to easily access and customize various features of Power Apps and other Power Platform products. It also provides some tips on how to use the new navigation pane effectively.
On-premises data gateway February release
🚀 No release notes provided, but make sure to test and update to the latest version.
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