Power Platform Weekly - Issue #17

Articles

Hardit Bhatia started a new series of articles last week. Jump along and follow him on this 26 Power Apps (canvas apps) tips journey that will help make us create better apps. Easy and simple to follow! One tip for each letter in the alphabet! The first tip: Add Picture vs Camera Control – Who is the winner?

🦸🏻‍♀️ Wave 1 2021 Early Access is now available | Opt-in by Priyesh Wagh 

‍🦸🏻‍♀️ Getting data from a function in an on-prem SQL server via Gateway in Power Automate by Andrew Grischenko 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Assign SLA based on case creation time by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Filter by Content Type using Get Items in Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tip #1398: Set calculated field to null by CRM tip of the Day

🦸🏻‍♀️ Handle Base64 and binary file content types in Power Automate by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ Save Survey Progress In D365 Customer Voice by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Portals Dark Mode by Victor Dantas

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps (canvas apps) & SharePoint List Relationships by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tip #1400: Excluding inactive records from duplicate detection by CRM Tip of the Day

🦸🏻‍♀️ Form Access Checker in new Power Apps Form Designer | Model-Driven Apps in Dynamics 365 by Priyesh Wagh

Tools & Code

Working with Entity Permissions for Power Apps Portals is not always smooth. Jonas Rapp has created a new tool which lets you visually work with the different types of permissions and their hierarchies. There is also a video about this tool. Have a look! https://jonasr.app/xtb-school/epm

🦸🏻‍♀️ Logic Apps To Visio – XrmToolBox Tool by Carl Cookson

👩‍💻 Customizing Power BI report in Power Apps Portal by Oleksandr Olashyn

👩‍💻 PCF Builder Feb 2021 Released by Danish Naglekar

Videos

Podcasts

Richard chats with Heather Newman about the concepts of work-life balance and how your tools can make it harder to do the right thing for you and your organization.

Nick and Nick are joined by special guests Ulrikke Akerbæk and Franco Musso to discuss new portal features and how to build a Power Apps Portal that doesn't look like a portal.

Paul talks with Mark Rackley about Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft Teams. Mark provides an overview of the offering and several use cases for organizations.

Events & Webinars

Global Automation Bootcamp has begun on the 5th of February. There's a lot more coming though! You can expect talks about Power Automate, Powershell, Azure, LogicApps, Functions, RPA & Selenium.

In a little bit less than two weeks, the Global Power Platform Bootcamp will start! A free event, driven by user groups and communities around the world, for anyone who wants to learn more about Microsoft’s Power Platform.

Don't miss this multi-day Microsoft 365 Online Summit. Packed full of the latest information around Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365 and so much more.

Out of the blue

Microsoft introduced a new document automation solution. This is a standard end-to-end solution allowing to manage documents received in emails, use AI Builder form processing to extract data from those documents, allow users to review and approve data through a central manual validation application.

In this video, learn how to automate application lifecycle management using GitHub Actions for Power Platform.

In this video, learn how to import APIs using Azure API Management into Microsoft Power Apps. Learn more: https://aka.ms/azurerad.

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