Power Platform Weekly - Issue #169
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Apps March 2024 feature update was presented.
Public Preview of intelligent recommendations for license assignment was announced.
Copilot capabilities for Power Apps (preview) were highlighted. Public Preview of a new copilot answer control was announced.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles



PCF Learning Roadmap
👩💻 Diana Birkelbach is often asked where to start learning PCF. What are the prerequisites? Are there more advanced questions which are hidden inside the official documentation or blogs? Often search engines (or even copilot) doesn’t find them. This is a blog post to keep bookmarked.
Using ‘ready-to-use’ AI functions in the Canvas App
🦸🏻♀️ Recently, Inogic were working on a customer’s requirement where they used a custom entity to store the feedback regarding their products using an integration. While working on the requirement, they found AI features that can be used in canvas apps or model-driven apps in Power Fx.
Canvas Apps: Watch PCF Component
👩💻🛠️ When Andrew Butenko needed to build and, especially, troubleshoot a canvas app he found that the “watch” that he as a developer used to have either in Visual Studio or Browser Developer Tools was quite limited. So he created his own tool.
Other articles
👩💻 How to Get PCF Controls Ready for Dark Mode in Model-Driven Apps by David Rivard
🦸🏻♀️ Add the Communication Preferences tab for Customer Insights - Journeys to Lead Forms by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Get document recommendations from SharePoint (preview) from Copilot for Sales by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Removing Email Addresses From Suppression by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️🚀 Challenge 027 | Full Closure on Managed Environments by Miguel Verweij
🦸🏻♀️ Tip #1457: Format JSON for human consumption by George Doubinski
🦸🏻♀️ Register for sessions on events in CI-Journeys by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: Unprecedented Times for Long-Time Customers by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Part 6: Sentiment analysis with the AI Builder in Customer Insights by Pauline Klode
🦸🏻♀️ Omnichannel for Customer Service – Conditional Agent Scripts by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Extract/parse JSON code in Power BI by Alexander Henkel
🦸🏻♀️ PowerPlatformTip 108 – ‘Double-Click Magic in PowerApps’ by Marcel Lehmann
👩💻 Dataverse: Implement Pre-lock in a plug-in transaction by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Power Automate: Fun with addToTime by Matt Ruma
🦸🏻♀️ Row-Level Security in Power Pages by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️🚀 An Intro To The Power Platform CoE Starter Kit by Craig White and Michael Roth
🦸🏻♀️ Unlocking Snowflake Data Integration in Power Platform: Out of the box Snowflake connector – Part 2 & 3 by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts



emPOWERed Humans Podcast
🧭 emPOWERed Humans is focused on showcasing deep human impact through Microsoft's Power Platform. Join your hosts, Angeliki Patsiavou and Ed Gonzales, as we hear and share stories of how this low-code platform is transforming and impacting lives.
Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast
👩💻 In this episode recorded in front of a live audience at SQL Bits 2024 in Farnborough, the United Kingdom, Alexander, Simon and stand-in host Reitse Eskens discuss development frameworks (Agile, SCRUM, etc.) and try to figure out if they are a help or a hindrance.
BIFocal Podcast
👩💻 John & Jason talk about the Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary including updates to Visual Cals, Power BI Home, Measure descriptions with Copilot, Data overview in Explore, and TMDL in Power BI Desktop Developer Mode.
📅 Events & Webinars



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.
Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2024
(📅 September 18-20, 2024)
Be inspired by Microsoft senior thought leaders, the product experts, and engineers behind the Power Platform. You’ll also learn from Microsoft MVPs who are dedicated to bridging the gap between humanity and technology. MPPC is the perfect place to connect with folks from around the world who are eager to share their insights and knowledge on how the Power Platform & Dynamics 365 can transform your business.
Scottish Summit 2024
(📅 October 18-19, 2024)
Scottish Summit 2024 is coming to you from P&J Live, Aberdeen's state-of-the-art event complex. This is going to be the biggest Scottish Summit to date, spanning 3 days. The Scottish Summit 2024 is gearing up to be the Fall spotlight of the Microsoft community calendar! It will have an exhilarating three days packed with over 100 sessions, workshops, and panel discussions that will leave you briming with knowledge and inspiration.
💙 Out of the Blue
Deep dive into DAX query view with Copilot
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Zoe Douglas provides a comprehensive exploration of DAX query view with Copilot, offering readers insights into its features and capabilities. It showcases how Copilot can assist in generating, adjusting, and explaining DAX queries, ultimately enhancing productivity and efficiency for users.
Easier than ever experience to import data from SharePoint List
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Prithvi Khosla announces the public preview of an easier import experience from SharePoint List to Dataverse Tables and Copilot ready canvas apps. It explains how users can navigate to the home page, select the SharePoint List option, review and edit their table schema, and create a responsive canvas app.
Migrate Standard Data Model Sites to Enhanced Data Model (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Neeraj Nandwana announces the availability of a new feature in the Power Pages CLI that allows users to migrate their standard data model sites to an enhanced data model. The feature includes capabilities such as generating a customization report, migrating configuration data, monitoring migration status, upgrading the data model version, and reverting back to the standard data model.
Power Platform admins can now assign licenses via Intelligent Recommendations
🚀 Zankar Desai announced that Power Platform admins can now use Intelligent Recommendations to assign licenses, boosting efficiency in organizations. This feature provides user recommendations for Power Apps premium licenses based on usage within the organization and allows admins to assign licenses directly or via security groups they own.
Microsoft Copilot and Power Apps transforming how people engage with apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Evan Lew writes about how Microsoft Copilot is revolutionizing the way people work by providing in-context assistance for end-users throughout the app experience. From form fill assistance to draft text input and insights, Copilot saves time, improves productivity, and enhances the quality of input and insights in Power Apps and Dynamics 365 model-driven apps.
Enhanced governance control for desktop flow logs
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Apostolis Papaioannou introduces a new data governance preview feature for desktop flows that allows administrators to control when desktop flow run action logs are captured or disabled. This feature provides three options: enabled (default), on run failure, and disabled, giving users flexibility in capturing and managing log data for troubleshooting, monitoring, and auditing purposes.
Introducing new copilot answer control (Public Preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Arijit Basu introduces the public preview of a new feature called copilot answer control in Power Apps. This feature allows frontline workers to quickly access AI-generated information through predefined prompts, improving productivity and efficiency in their day-to-day work.
What’s new: Power Apps March 2024 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The March 2024 update for Power Apps introduces new features such as inline actions for canvas apps, the ability to directly call SQL Server stored procedures, the general availability of built-in Dataverse offline support for canvas apps, and enhancements to Power Fx functions.
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