Power Platform Weekly - Issue #163
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Public Preview of Draft with Copilot for canvas apps was announced.
The Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary was presented.
There’s a new XrmToolBox tool from David Rivard, Finance and Operations Virtual Entity Manager 🛠️ read more in David’s LinkedIn post.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Power Apps - Making a Captcha
🦸🏻♀️ David Wyatt hasn't made a Power App for a while so he wanted something to make, and while thinking about how to deal with a Captcha on Blue Prism he had a thought, could he make a Captcha in Power Apps.
Dataverse: About Masking Rule
🦸🏻♀️ Temmy Wahyu Raharjo found an undocumented feature in Dataverse while exploring a topic for his blog post. The feature basically helps you mask the value if the value matches with a RegEx (Regular Expression) that we set.
Tip #18 Unmanaged customizations - Preview that breaks it all in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights-Journeys
🦸🏻♀️ Wednesday, 14.02, Microsoft released a new preview feature for Power Platform and it is a great one for admins. It is now possible to enable the feature to control whether unmanaged customizations are allowed. However, Vivian Tiiman discovered that it breaks D365 CI.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ How to invoke Low-code plug-ins using Power Automate Cloud Flow by Inogic
🤵🏻 Record your Teams meetings and get an analysis by Jakob Örneberg
🦸🏻♀️ Internal Notification Emails For Event Forms In Realtime Marketing by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Enhance your Copilot Studio's topic with Dynamic Options by Ben den Blanken
🦸🏻♀️ How to fix button in modern command bar disappearing after grid item selection by Linn Zaw Win
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform | Securing CoPilot development by Carsten Groth
🛠️ New Project: QR Code Custom APIs by Guido Preite
🦸🏻♀️ Checklist Automation by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️ My own Copilot: Nova by Ana Inés Urrutia
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Community Insights Podcast
👩💻 Unlock the potential of AI in coding with insights from Damian Brady of GitHub, as we navigate the fascinating features of GitHub Copilot.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to amplify the voice of the developer community? Damian Brady peels back the curtain on the life of a senior developer advocate at GitHub, emphasizing the role of user feedback in shaping their tools. He highlights resources for mastering GitHub Copilot, including the latest certification offerings, and teases the exciting involvement GitHub will have at events like the Microsoft MVP Summit and GitHub Universe. This episode is a wellspring of knowledge for developers seeking to connect and grow, featuring avenues to engage with Damian and the innovative solutions at GitHub.
Low-Code Approach Podcast
🧭 In this week's episode, we take a trip down memory lane to revisit some of the biggest announcements for Microsoft Power Platform that occurred at Microsoft Ignite. Michael Roth and Chris Huntingford joined us to let us know what they thought was most exciting and the impact of the announcements. This is a good look at how customers and attendees reacted to the news, from Microsoft Copilot Studio to groups and rules in Power Platform governance.
The Copilot Connection Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ With more and more people getting access to all the different Copilots, more myths are appearing online. So, in this episode, Zoe and Kevin take a look at some of those myths and either bust them or add the detail behind the truth of each of them, Plus, we highlight some of the latest news along the way including some potential new text to video for Copilot in there too.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Copilot now helps users draft text input in canvas apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Jordan Chodak announced the Public Preview release of "Draft with Copilot" for canvas apps in a browser, where Copilot helps users draft well-written text for input fields. This feature will initially roll out to premium users in the US region and will eventually expand to include support for different languages.
February 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The February 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.41) has been released, introducing new features like Picture-in-Picture run mode and Power Fx support for interpolated strings. Users can now run local attended desktop flows in a virtual window and easily incorporate Power Fx expressions into their inputted text.
Generate measure descriptions with Copilot (preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Zoe Douglas announced the public preview of generating measure descriptions with Copilot in Power BI. This feature helps streamline the documentation process by automatically generating measure descriptions for report authors to review and add to their semantic model.
Announcing general availability of granular access control for all data connection types
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Kay Unkroth announced the general availability of granular access control for all data connection types in Power BI. This security feature allows organizations to have more control over who can connect semantic models to organizational data sources, enhancing data access controls in enterprise environments.
Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The Power BI February 2024 update introduces new features such as visual calculations, dynamic subscriptions for reports, on-object interaction updates, and the enhanced Power BI Home. Additionally, there are improvements to data connectivity, mobile capabilities, developer tools, and visualizations, along with updates on the Fabric Community Conference and Power BI Purview.
Visual calculations (preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Jeroen ter Heerdt introduces the preview feature of visual calculations in Power BI, which allows users to define and execute DAX calculations directly on visuals. Visual calculations simplify the process of writing DAX and make it easier to perform common business calculations within visuals.
TMDL in Power BI Desktop developer mode (Preview)
👩💻🚀 Rui Romano announces the adoption of Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) as the semantic model file format for Power BI Project files. TMDL provides an improved source control and collaborative development experience by using separate files for each table, perspective, role, and culture within a folder structure.
Additional enhancements for columns, bars and ribbons
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The Power BI February 2024 Update introduces additional enhancements for columns, bars, and ribbons, offering more control and customization for data visualization. From hiding inner borders in stacked column charts to overlapping and flipping series in clustered charts, these updates aim to elevate data storytelling and enhance visual appeal.
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