Power Platform Weekly - Issue #137
Power Platform Weekly - Issue #137
2023 Release Wave 2 plans are available! Community Events .IT - check it out!
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
We’re back from Summer Holidays to bring you curated Power Platform news. This issue contains a 2023 Release Wave 2 dedicated chapter, the community did a great job summarizing what’s coming.
Community Events .IT has been launched by Guido Preite. This new website helps you find community events to attend and it spreads awareness of the upcoming events that you organize. Do you miss any event on the site? Add your own event or let Guido know through the new LinkedIn page or Twitter!
In July several feature summaries were presented; Power BI Feature Summary, Power Apps Feature Update, AI Builder Updates, Power Automate for Desktop Update.
Copresence for building Power Pages sites was announced in July. The general availability of Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining was announced in the beginning of August.
Editing complete (Power Pages) site code using Visual Studio Code for web was highlighted on the Power Pages blog.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
🌊 2023 Release Wave 2
Official documentation
Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 2 plan
Dynamics 365 & more 2023 Release Wave 2 plan
Microsoft Cloud for Industry 2023 Release Wave 2 plan
📰 2023 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog
📺 Release Wave 2 Highlights on YouTube
Community Summaries
🎙 2023 Release Wave 2 - Power Platform Boost Podcast by Nick Doelman & Ulrikke Akerbæk
📺 Power Platform Wave 2 2023 Release: Top 10 Features You Need to Know! by Lisa Crosbie
📺 Dynamics 365 Wave 2 2023: Top 10 Features You Need to Know! by Lisa Crosbie
📺 Power Platform 2023 Wave 2 Release Notes Highlights by David Yack (365.Training)
📰 Top 7 things from Power Platform 2023 release wave 2 by Oleksandr Olashyn
📰 My top Power Platform 2023 release wave 2 plan features by Michel Mendes
📰 Top 9 Waves to catch this Power Platform Release Wave by Ben den Blanken
📰 Release 2023 Wave 2 Summary by Benedikt Bergmann
📰 2023 Wave 2 Release Notes: D365 Field Service by Dian Taylor
📰 2023 Wave 2 Release Notes: D365 Customer Service by Dian Taylor
📰 2023 Wave 2 Release Notes: D365 Sales by Dian Taylor
📰 Power Platform Release wave 2 2023 by Wilmer Alcivar
📰 Dynamics 365 CE Release wave 2 2023 by Wilmer Alcivar
📰 Articles
Edit Subgrids Side by Side with Power Apps Grid or Editable Grid
👩💻 Diana Birkelbach showcases a new UX experience that will allow a form editing experience for records 4 relations deep. She does this by utilizing the side pane functionality, in order to achieve a better UX than navigating the user away.
Power Apps & Power Automate licensing updates (2023)
🧭 Most of the customers and community members Jukka Niiranen talks to would agree that Microsoft Power Platform licensing feels like a complex topic. They might also be under the impression that it keeps changing all the time, thus making it hard to know if you’ve really got the latest information at your disposal. In this article he summarizes the changes and key impacts to customers and partners.
How to use Power Apps Cards for Dataverse notifications with Power Automate and Microsoft Teams
🦸🏻♀️ Elaiza Benitez has previously presented solutions using Adaptive Cards. Fast forward to today, there’s now Power Apps Cards in preview. Power Apps Cards is the next step up from Adaptive Cards and you can use them with Power Automate cloud flows. Read her post to know more.
Other articles
🧭🦸🏻♀️ Upcoming Licensing enforcement in Power Automate explained by Benedikt Bergmann
🦸🏻♀️ See which flows are at risk of suspension by Alex Shlega
🦸🏻♀️ Flows in app context – is there a clear definition of what it means? by Alex Shlega
👩💻 Edit more in Power Pages using Visual Studio Code for the Web by Nick Doelman
👩💻 Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages and Part 2 by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️🚀 Power Platform DLP Policy: blocking HTTP connectors won’t impact child Flows by Olena Grischenko
👩💻 Dataverse: UpsertRequest vs Custom API. Which one is faster? by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 How to call OnPremise WebAPI from Canvas App by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
👩💻 Dataverse: The Importance of OrderBy When Retrieve more than 5k records by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
👩💻 Using Azure Developer CLI to deploy Logic Apps Standard by Natraj Yegnaraman
🚀 Don’t trust the Microsoft 365 admin center product information by Jukka Niiranen
🦸🏻♀️ How To Build Responsive Power Apps Forms From Scratch by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ 25 Power Apps IF Function Examples by Matthew Devaney
🛠️🦸🏻♀️ Polymorphic Lookup Manager by Linn Zaw Win
🦸🏻♀️ Default Environment - How to handle? by EY Kalman
👩💻 Disable Cells Using Power Apps Grid Customizer Control by Diana Birkelbach
🚀 Power Platform governance resources by Ramon Tebar
🦸🏻♀️ Capturing UTM Parameters Via Realtime Marketing Forms by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ D365 Marketing Events Portal Using Power Pages by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Creating Notification Emails For Realtime Marketing Forms by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Moving Consent From Subscription Lists To Topics by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Compliance Profiles In Realtime Marketing Contacts Leads by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Real-time Marketing Subscription Forms by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ F&O alert emails in Power Automate by Adrià Ariste Santacreu
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot for D365 Sales (preview) by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Dynamics 365 Customer Service Workspace by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️ Customise a journey in RTM by Malin Martnes
👩💻 Calculated columns + Azure Synapse Link != true by Gustaf Westerlund
🦸🏻♀️ Mapping Lookup values from Dynamics 365 Marketing Form Submissions with Power Automate by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Remove internal emails in Dynamics 365 by Amey Holden
👩💻 Dataverse - Introduction to Elastic Table by Jimmy Mo
🦸🏻♀️ How to write plugins in Dataverse using low code Power Fx functions by Debajit Dutta
🦸🏻♀️ 6 Power Platform copilot and AI features you can try out today by Rishona Elijah
👩💻 Power Pages: Pro Code Techniques in the Templates – Custom Search Interface Using JavaScript Redirects - Engineered Code by Nicholas Hayduk
🛠️ SQL 4 CDS 7.4 Released by Mark Carrington
🦸🏻♀️ Cloud and Desktop flows a combination to manage PDF documents (Part 2) by Wilmer Alcivar
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate - Dynamic Variables by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate Documentation by GPT by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps Cards - How to Make Planning Poker by David Wyatt
🚀 F&O 💙 Power Platform – Where’s my Dataverse DEV? by Carina M. Claesson
🚀 F&O 💙 Power Platform – Database Refresh by Carina M. Claesson
🦸🏻♀️ How to fix "XRM Network error operation not allowed as mime type is blocked" by Oleksandr Olashyn
🚀 Power Platform’s protection — Platform internal capabilities by Raphaël Pothin
🛠️ FetchXML Builder Release version 1.2023.8 by Jonas Rapp
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
The Azure Podcast
🚀 Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what it means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
👩💻 New capabilities for your frontline workers, including Windows 365 Frontline experience, Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service for more streamlined service delivery, and Microsoft Teams as the single collaboration hub to get work done, wherever you are. Check out updated admin experiences, from setting up Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs and configuring Windows 365 Boot, to deploying Microsoft Teams to frontline workers at scale.
Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
🧭 We dive headfirst into the dynamic world of D365 with none other than Elif Item, a veteran consultant who has scaled her way up the ladder to a director role in a partner company. Prepare to glean useful insights and nuggets of wisdom as Elif opens the floor for a chat about her passion for D365 training and her innovative learning platform. Designed for D365 users, this platform focuses on making core team members and subject matter experts effective end users.
📅 Events & Webinars
Nordic Summit
(📅 September 23)
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.
South Coast Summit
(📅 October 13-14)
South Coast Summit focuses on all key pillars of the Microsoft ecosystem: Business Applications, Modern Work, Security & Compliance, through to Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Ignite
(📅 November 15-16)
Join the next Microsoft Ignite event November 15–16, 2023, to catch up on the latest industry innovations. Sign up to be one of the first to know when registration launches.
European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference
(📅 November 27-30)
ESPC helps IT Pros, Developers, Makers & Business Decision Makers achieve project and career success with leading Microsoft technologies.
💙 Out of the Blue
Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining is generally available
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Power Automate Process Mining has been around for a while in preview, but now it got upgraded to GA!
Power Platform as Connected Service for Visual Studio is Generally Available
👩💻 Marcel Ferreira announced on the Power Platform DevBlog that the Power Platform Connected Service for Visual Studio is now GA! Make sure to check it out if you haven’t yet!
Power Platform Command Line: June Update
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 In this blog, Kartik tells us all about the latest updates for the Power Platform CLI!
What’s new: Power Apps June 2023 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 All the news that was announced in June was posted right after our last edition of Power Platform weekly, so make sure to read it if you havent’t!
What’s new: Power Apps July 2023 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 All the news that was announced in July is here in a handy blog post!
Microsoft named a Leader and Positioned Furthest for Completeness of Vision in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Robotic Process Automation
🧭 Big news from the Power Automate world: Microsoft has been named a leader and is the leader on completeness of vision in Gartner’s latest report on RPA!
New Power Apps home page now generally available with expanded Copilot access
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Frank Lan announced that the new Power Apps home page is now GA and Copilot is now available for all US users! Great news for all the people that want to do more with Copilot!
Copilot now powers deployment notes for pipelines in Power Platform
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 A really cool feature is out now for pipelines in Power Platform: Copilot can now write deployment notes!
Automate testing of your Power Virtual Agents chatbots with the PVA Test Framework sample solution
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Henry Jammes authored an excellent article about the PVA Test Framework sample solution!
Getting Started with Power Platform CLI and Power Pages
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 This blog is about how to get started with Power Platform CLI and Power Pages!
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