Power Platform Weekly - Issue #161
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the January 2024 updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps were highlighted.
The February release of the CoE Kit was made available.
What’s new in Sales Copilot, January 2024? A new video from the FastTrack Dynamics 365 team was released.
Now in preview - Block unmanaged customizations, tips from Amira Beldjilali.
Here’s a reminder that the series Feature a day with Copilot Studio - January edition from Katerina Chernevskaya is complete.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Call any Dataverse/Dynamics 365 REST API from Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️ In Power Automate you can use the Dataverse connector to access data in Dataverse. Unfortunately, not all REST API endpoints are available inside the connector, and the Dataverse connector also doesn't have support for impersonating another user. Luckily, Yannick Reekmans shows us how this can be resolved.
Power Platform Advisor (Preview)
🚀 In this blog, Mónica Andrea Pérez will tell you about the advantages of the new functionality, where administrators receive messages indicating that some applications are not being used or that other components of Power Platform are ending their trial period.
More work ➡️ More features
🦸🏻♀️ During the last few months, Jonas Rapp has been working more than ever. More work apparently creates more needs, more features, more improvements!
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Unable to delete table due to entityanalyticsconfig by Gustaf Westerlund
🦸🏻♀️ Postal and electronic addresses integration using dual-write party model and global address book app (Part 3) by Corina Balan
👩💻 Refresh main form when new child row is added in subgrid via quick create form in model-driven app by Linn Zaw Win
🦸🏻♀️ Using Additional Matching Strategies On Realtime Forms by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️🚀 6 Stages of Solution Deployment by Carl Cookson
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio – Adaptive Cards Toggle Visibility by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio – Hide Fields in Adaptive Cards by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Start here: Copilot by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️🚀 Will It Break? Non-business Dataverse connector + AI Builder with a DLP policy for the Default environment by Olena Grischenko
🦸🏻♀️ Impersonate Dataverse Users connected to Entra ID Groups by Guido Preite
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: FetchXML with the Web API by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Using Microsoft Learn API to Validate Power Platform Makers by David Wyatt
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Mondays at Microsoft Podcast
🧭 Mondays at Microsoft | Episode 17 with Heather Cook and Karuana Gatimu.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Join us as we recap ACDC 2024 - a three-day hackathon competition where we went head over the weekend. We also talk about a new decision tree for Power Pages, Solution layers, FetchXML, concurrency control in Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot, AI Builder, and Microsoft AI Tour. We are so excited about the Canadian Power Platform Summit, our joint session at EPPC, and all the other conferences we get to go to this year.
XRM ToolCast Podcast
👩💻 In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk amongst themselves, diving into Scott's time serving as a judge at ACDC, the Canadian Power Platform Summit, and Daryl's new IOC framework. Daryl also withholds and then re-releases his love for Scott, and Scott confesses his innermost TypeScript/C# brain farts.
📅 Events & Webinars
Teams Nation
(📅 February 21, 2024)
Teams Nation is a 100% free, 100% community driven online conference dedicated to Microsoft Teams, its underlying technologies and its extensibility options.
Data Saturday München 2024
(📅 February 24, 2024)
Data Saturday München is a free one-day event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform and Microsoft Azure technologies. This community event offers content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and much more.
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2024
(📅 March 16, 2024)
Welcome to CPPS inaugural edition, a celebration of innovation, collaboration, and all things Power Platform, eh! Join us in the beautiful city of Vancouver, BC, for a one-of-a-kind event that brings together Power Platform enthusiasts from across the country and around the world.
ColorCloud
(📅 April 18-19, 2024)
The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming to Hamburg in April 2024!
Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.
Microsoft 365 Conference 2024
(📅 April 30 - May 2, 2024)
The Microsoft 365 Conference has become one of the most important in-person gatherings of the Microsoft 365 community anywhere on Earth.
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
January 2024 updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Every month there is an update on the modern controls for Power Apps, and this month there were a bunch of updated controls: the date picker & table control got updated and there is also a new visualization for picking the color palettes.
As usual, there is also a preview in the blog on what’s coming, so make sure to read the blog!
Custom processing for invoice and document field types generally available
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 With AI Builder, invoice processing has been around for a while now, but it’s now also possible to use custom processing for invoice and document fields, so that you can add custom fields as well on top of the out of the box model which only has standard fields. This blog announced the general availability!
Building new apps and tables with Maker Copilot is now available in 8 languages worldwide
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The list of supported languages for Maker Copilot for Power Apps has been expanded to eight languages! Supported languages are now: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil) & Spanish!
How Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether inspired AI-powered solutions for real-world use cases
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Elaiza Benitez wrote a great blog about the Power Platform Global AI HackTogether that happened September last year. It lists a lot of great examples of AI solutions built on the Power Platform.
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