Power Platform Weekly - Issue #157
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week Microsoft continued the series about modern controls coming to canvas apps, Recap of modern controls evolution in 2023 and a glimpse into 2024 innovations.
Sara Critchley has created a Copilot Studio Guidebook to get you started with demoing, designing and building Copilot Studio solutions, read more in her announcement.
Katerina Chernevskaya is doing a feature A Feature-a-Day with Copilot Studio: Monthly Mastery this January, join her and learn! Here’s a recap of the first two weeks.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Standard or Custom Theming for PCF using Fluent UI v9
👩💻 Recently the docs got extended with explanations on how to use theming in PCFs, and we’ve got an example on how to use it Modern theming API. It is a preview feature, but Diana Birkelbach had to try it out
Custom APIs for Power Automate: why they should be developed
👩💻 Power Automate is an important piece of the Power Platform, no doubts about this. Can it be improved? Sure. One thing Guido Preite does not like is to create convoluted processes to achieve something that is very easy using another tool. He will show you great examples of where Custom APIs can simplify cloud flows.
Exploring AI Prompts within Power Automate - Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM Tips and Tricks
🦸🏻♀️ As generative AI builder tools are becoming more and more popular, it is worth learning and using them to get the most out of them. One of the exciting features among AI builder tools is “AI Prompts” which are now generally available. Inogic gives an example of how to use it.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Segments in Customer Insights - Journeys: multi-hop, custom tables, N:N and 1:N relationships by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Real-time segment tips and tricks for building complex data queries in Customer Insights - Journeys by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Capture Lead Channel Traffic Source Without UTM Parameters by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Redirect After Preference Centre Submission - Customise Form by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Make your HR Copilot intelligent by connecting it to SharePoint by Ben den Blanken
🦸🏻♀️🛠️ Flow Admin - Multiple Enable / Disable of Flows by Carl Cookson
🦸🏻♀️ New Slicer Visual in Power BI Report within Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ Fastest Way To Patch All Gallery Items In Power Apps by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ How to improve Stripe payments in Power Pages by Andrew Grischenko
🦸🏻♀️ Enhanced Mobile Experience (preview) for D365 Field Service by Dian Taylor
🚀👩💻 Power Platform Environment Strategy V2 by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel for Customer Service – Adaptive Cards as Pre-Chat Survey by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Enhancing Model-Driven Apps with Power Apps Custom Page Pop-Ups! by Ben Curley
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Low-Code Approach Podcast
👩💻 As organizations move forward with implementing Microsoft Copilots across their business units, learn from Sid Gundavarapu, Principal Product Manager in the Power Apps Scale team at Microsoft, about governance and governance tools for low code.
Amazing Applications Podcast
👩💻 Neil Benson is joined by Keith Atherton, a proper pro developer. Keith shares his journey from developing custom apps using .NET, C#, and SQL Server to embracing and mastering the development of enterprise business applications using the Power Platform.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🤵🏻 GAME ON! We talk about game development on the Power Platform and if you are a participant in the Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge, you don't want to miss this episode. Wink Wink ;) We also talk about Data Activator for Microsoft Fabric, Marc Smith's 30-day mentoring challenge, and Dynamics Hotdish's episode about Rethinking Azure DevOps Practices and Insights with Neil Benson. We finish off by going through which conferences we are going to in the coming months.
📅 Events & Webinars
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2024
(📅 February 1-2, 2024)
CTTT is a Microsoft Cloud Community event with the purpose of bringing technology and community leaders to Tallinn to share their learning with the local community
Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami
(📅 February 2, 2024)
Get ready to be inspired and learn at the Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami! This event is all about unlocking the full potential of Microsoft 365, the Power Platform, and Artificial Intelligence. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a business owner, or just curious about the latest advancements in technology, this event is for you.
European Collaboration Summit
(📅 May 14-16, 2024)
With 2,500+ attendees, the European Collaboration Summit is the largest conference in the world focused on Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.
DynamicsMinds
(📅 May 27-29, 2024)
An awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
European Power Platform Conference 2024
(📅 June 11-13, 2024)
The 3rd European Power Platform Conference (EPPC) will take place in Brussels, Belgium, June 11-13, 2024 at Square. The European Power Platform Conference brings together the Microsoft Power Platform Community for 3 invaluable days of in-person learning, connections and inspiration.
💙 Out of the Blue
Unlock Retail Productivity with Power Platform and Dataverse
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 A great blog by Nirav Shah about new features in Dataverse! Also - Microsoft will be at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show where they will highlight how Power Platform can help unlock productivity and improve customer experiences in your retail shopping experiences.
Recap of modern controls evolution in 2023 and a glimpse into 2024 innovations
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Yogesh Gupta provides a great blog with a recap of what changed with modern controls in 2023 and he shows what’s coming in 2024! Make sure to read this if you’re interested in modern controls in Canvas Apps!
Update to Dashboard Web Content tenant setting
🚀 Harleen Kaur blogged about an update coming to the Dashboard Web Content tenant setting. This setting was enabled by default, but now Microsoft is changing this to be disabled by default.
Model explorer with calculation group authoring is now available in Power BI service including Direct Lake semantic models
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Zoe Douglas announced the availability of Model Explorer when editing data models in the Power BI service! With the Model Explorer available for editing data models in the Power BI service these semantic models, both Direct Lake and those in import or DirectQuery, not only get visibility of their semantic model in a tree view but also can create calculation groups!
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