Power Platform Weekly - Issue #13

Articles

Jukka Niiranen explains how to improve the user experience of Power Apps Model-Driven forms that reference data from multiple related tables in Microsoft Dataverse.

Aric Levin shares his finding about using Adaptive Cards, adding them to Cloud flows and Microsoft Teams and sending Adaptive Cards via Outlook. This solution can also be found on GitHub.

Within Omnichannel for Customer Service we can enable Power BI based dashboards to give insights into customer communications across all messaging channels. Neil Parkhurst explains how to enable these dashboards and what information you can get.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Invoice Approval Process using Microsoft Teams and AI Model – Part 2 by Inogic

🦸🏻‍♀️ Forms within forms by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dataflows for Power Apps: transform fixed-width text files by Olena Grischenko

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 Sales mobile app (preview) by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Recording Anonymous Feedback While Capturing Variables In D365 Customer Voice by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Formatting Approvals’ Details in Cloud Flows | Power Automate by Priyesh Wagh

👩‍💻 Using the Power Apps portals WebAPI to Clear the Portal Cache by Nick Doelman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Sample apps built on Power Apps in Microsoft Teams by Amanda Sterner 

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 HR | Chapter 36: Dataverse tables and integration by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 Dialogs functionality using Power Automate: When a record is selected by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics is Weird by Kylie Kiser

🦸🏻‍♀️ DataFlows – Customer lookup fix 🔨 by Thomas Sandsør

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps galleries – how to auto scroll! by Hardit Bhatia

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to query more than 5K CDS records using FetchXml in PowerAutomate/ Microsoft flow by Debajit Dutta

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to: not to get stuck on the required fields when creating a Power Automate Flow by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Populate Activity party value with JSON array in Power Automate by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ Moving solutions between Dataverse for Teams environments - An update by Matt Beard

🦸🏻‍♀️ Customer Voice - Send Reminder Email by Jerry Weinstock

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Portals: Web Forms with Complex Conditions by Nicholas Hayduk

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tool kit Series | Personnel Mgmt Starter Pack by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Weird combo box OnChange behavior - Should it trigger or not? by Hardit Bhatia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Restrictive deep linking for canvas apps in Power Apps by Yash Agarwal

Tools & Code

👩‍💻 Implementing Dataverse Custom APIs (a.k.a new Custom Actions) by Allan De Castro

👩‍💻 Azure Functions in Power Platform multiple environments by Olena Grischenko

David Rivard presents the release of his first XrmToolBox tool Custom API Manager. This tool is integrated with Jonas Rapp's Custom API Tester. Define your API in the Custom API Manager, and Test it right away using the Custom API Tester. (Bonus! You can even Monitor the test execution using the Plugin Trace Viewer).

Videos

Podcasts

A brand new podcast from Ashley Steiner, Liz McGlennen, and Merlin Schwaiger. In this episode, they discuss entry points into the many Dynamics 365 career paths.

First-time MVP Amey Holden chats about the new ON24 virtual conference, her journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP as well as the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on her career.

In the pilot episode, Microsoft Business Applications MVPs, Ashley Rogers and Ed Gonzales discuss their respective journeys into the technology space.

Events & Webinars

An in-depth hands-on overview of CRM Bot's approach to Conversational AI agent building.

Out of the blue

🦸🏻‍♀️ You can now share Dataverse for Teams apps beyond a team

🦸🏻‍♀️ New Model Driven Apps controls, deprecation of old controls

🦸🏻‍♀️ Editing related records on a main form in a model driven app

🦸🏻‍♀️ Simple Image control for model driven apps

👩‍💻 Import a connector from GitHub as a custom connector

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