Power Platform Weekly - Issue #165
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the General Availability of Dataverse Preferred Solution was announced.
The February 2024 updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps were highlighted.
The on-premises data gateway February 2024 release was presented.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Power Pages PayPal integration
🦸🏻♀️ This post provides guidance on PayPal integration in the Power Pages site. It was inspired by a few requests on this topic, so Andrew Grischenko decided to publish this guide again. More things are now available out of the box.
Dataverse: How the RelatedEntities Plugin Works
👩💻 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo thought when using RelatedEntities, the system would run the CreateMultiple plugin once. But, in reality, this plugin will be called for each of the rows instead. Read more for the in-depth analysis.
New FetchXML features and documentation
🦸🏻♀️ Microsoft recently released a new in-depth set of documentation for FetchXML, and it includes some extra features that haven’t been supported before. Read Mark Carrington’s summary of the new toys.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Part 3: Copilot in Customer Insights Data by Pauline Kolde
🦸🏻♀️ A Comprehensive Guide to Create and Edit Topics with Copilot by Inogic
🛠️🦸🏻♀️ Model-Driven Apps Copier by Linn Zaw Win
👩💻 Open New Record Form with Pre-populated Fields Using Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo by Linn Zaw Win
🦸🏻♀️ Summarize emails using GPT within Power Automate by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Request to recruit by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Resolving Error While Creating Target Entity Issue by Megan V. Walker
👩💻 Power Pages: Pro Code Techniques in the Templates - Custom Interface for Location Selection by Nicholas Hayduk
👩💻 Tip #1445: Date picker in Power Pages revisited by George Doubinski
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel Routing to preferred agent by Victor Sanchez
🦸🏻♀️ Extend CoPilot for Microsoft 365 with Dynamics 365 data (preview) by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform CLIx: A New XrmToolBox Tool for Power Platform CLI by Michael Ochs
🦸🏻♀️ Dynamics 365 finance: How to import Electronic reporting (ER) configurations from Microsoft Dataverse (Preview) by Mónica Andrea Pérez
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Super Simple 365 Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Welcome to our second roundup of 2024. We look back at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in February.
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
👩💻 Take advantage of Azure Cosmos DB for your AI-driven applications. Seamlessly integrate with large language models like ChatGPT, for real-time operational efficiency and limitless scalability. With its built-in vector search engine and multi-model support, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore optimizes for just-in-time data retrieval, so you can build cutting-edge solutions at any scale.
Kirill Gavrylyuk, General Manager for the Azure Cosmos DB team, joins Jeremy Chapman to share how you can increase performance and cost-effectiveness, whether managing millions of users globally or building smaller-scale apps.
BizApps Classroom Podcast
🤵🏻 How do you decide what's next in your learning journey in the Microsoft Business Applications space? The answer can depend on factors like your career plans, your employer's priorities, or your interests and skills.
Co-host Julie Yack has fielded this question many times and she shares some of the questions and concerns that she often hears from learners. We discuss some of the different options people have, from Microsoft's own training materials to conferences to working with trainers, and how to choose the right path forward. And we discuss some of the most interesting opportunities for people in the Dynamics and Power Platform ecosystem who are looking for a change.
📅 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.
Power Platform 24 Conference March 2024
(📅 March 20, 2024)
Join Power Platform enthusiasts from around the world for a full day of sessions about Microsoft Business Applications. No matter where you are in the world, this is in your time-zone. Times listed by each session are in your user local time as set by your browser or machine settings.
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
Preferred solution is now Generally Available
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This blog by Mankirat Kaur Bajwa discusses the introduction of Preferred Solutions in Microsoft Dataverse as a crucial alternative to the default storage model. It explains how users can designate a specific solution for their unmanaged customizations, enhancing control and streamlining management for seamless deployment across environments.
Copilot assistance for filling forms is now in all model-driven apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Miti Joshi announces the availability of Copilot assistance for form filling in all model-driven apps, including Power Apps and Dynamics 365. This AI-powered feature generates suggestions for filling out form fields based on usage patterns and existing data, providing a faster and more efficient data entry experience.
Prompt engineering made easier with AI Builder
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This blog by Nirav Shah introduces AI Builder's prebuilt functions and the power of prompts in enhancing generative AI capabilities within the Microsoft Power Platform. It also highlights how Projectum, a project management solution, leverages AI Builder's custom prompts to create actionable insights, demonstrating the value of combining prompts and low-code development practices.
February 2024 updates for modernization and theming in Power Apps
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Noa Zarur’s post discusses the updates in modernization and theming in Power Apps. She introduces new controls like number input and collapsible sections in the properties pane, upcoming enhancements such as icon control and stream control, and mentions the upcoming styling options and simple in-app custom theming.
Simplify your work with Table rules in Microsoft Loop
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ravon Lingard shows how Microsoft Loop, a productivity tool, helps teams track and manage their projects more efficiently through the use of table rules and Power Automate. It highlights the benefits of Loop in terms of collaboration, organization, and time-saving automation.
Announcing the New Data Connectors for Excel and CSV for Report Creation in Fabric
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ikechukwu Edeagu announces the public preview of new Excel and CSV data connectors for creating Power BI reports in Fabric. These connectors streamline workflows, simplify data ingestion, and enable users to import, analyze, and collaborate on data with ease.
On-premises data gateway February 2024 release
👩💻🚀 In the February 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway, compatibility with Power BI Desktop has been updated, ensuring that reports published to the Power BI Service and refreshed via the gateway will use the same query execution logic as in the February version of Power BI Desktop. Additionally, a new feature allows connection to designated SQL servers with self-signed certificates or without encryption, eliminating the need to purchase and deploy new certificates.
Announcing the creation of connected tables in Excel Online
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog, Shannon Lindsay announces the availability of connected tables in Excel online, allowing users to connect directly to data in their Power BI semantic model. It also provides instructions on how to insert a connected table and mentions the availability of this feature in the Excel desktop application.
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