Power Platform Weekly - Issue #215
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week an early access preview of computer use in Copilot Studio was announced. The new learning path, Work with Power Fx functions, was announced.
The most colorful Microsoft BizApps event is happening this week in Hamburg, ColorCloud. 💛🧡🩷💜💙💚 With ColorChallenge they combine their big passion - color - with doing something good. People can donate to a good cause to paint MVPs and Microsofties in the iconic ColorCloud look!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
One form to rule them all: Reuse Marketing Forms Across Pages with JavaScript
👩💻 Most of Pauline Kolde’s forms use a consistent set of fields, so duplicating them across websites is just extra work. Her goal? One reusable form, embedded on multiple websites, that still lets her identify where each submission came from—so she can route leads into the right journey.
Alternate Row Colours in Power Apps Galleries
🦸🏻♀️ A recent comment on one of Craig White’s posts asked how to colour alternate rows in a Power Apps gallery. That’s the topic of this post, where he will go through a couple of different methods and break down all the Power Fx needed to make it happen.
Power Pages: Depending on jQuery
👩💻 While jQuery may be past its prime, it is certainly still used a lot, especially on Power Pages sites. In this blog post, Nicholas Hayduk looks at what happens when you don’t pay attention to where that automatic inclusion happens.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Download your uploaded document templates now by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Revolutionizing Digital Workflows: Traditional Automation vs. AI-Powered Agents by Carsten Groth
🦸🏻♀️ Include Add To Google Calendar Button On Realtime Emails by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ AI Hub: Anonymize. Redact. Escalate by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Meet the new Scheduling Operations Agent in Dynamics 365 Field Service by Dian Taylor
🚀 Case Study: Power Platform Adoption Accelerator in Higher Education by Hamish Sheild
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Community Insights Podcast
🧭 In Episode 32 of the Microsoft Community Insights podcast, Miri Rodriguez, Senior Storyteller at Microsoft and author of Brand Storytelling, shares her journey and insights on the power of storytelling in technology and personal branding.
Miri's insights underscore the transformative power of storytelling in both professional and personal contexts, advocating for authenticity and empathy in building meaningful connections.
BIFocal Podcast
👩💻 John & Jason discuss the Microsoft Power BI March 2025 Feature Summary, including Desktop start-up performance improvements, Copilot improvements, cool stuff with PBIP & TMDL, and many modeling improvements.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🛠️ Hosts Ulrikke Akerbæk and Nick Doelman explore the latest updates within the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem. They discuss recent enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages, emphasizing how these changes improve both user experience and platform functionality. The episode also highlights the importance of community involvement, showcasing stories of how user feedback and contributions continue to shape the direction of the platform. Ulrikke and Nick encourage listeners to engage with the broader Power Platform community, particularly by attending upcoming events, conferences, and workshops that offer valuable learning and networking opportunities. They also share personal insights from their own journeys with the platform, offering practical tips and advice for users at all levels—from newcomers to seasoned pros.
📅 Events & Webinars
ColorCloud Hamburg 2025
(📅 April 24, 2025)
ColorCloud is back in 2025! After the highly successful first edition, the new edition is happening in April 2025. Again, it will be a great event for everyone who likes Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure & Power BI.
DynamicsCon 2025
(📅 May 13-16, 2025)
Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 350 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking. This year, DynamicsCon is in Chicago!
Power Summit – Power Platform Developer Community Bootcamp
(📅 May 24, 2025)
Power Summit is the Largest Free Power Platform & A.I. Community Conference in the United Kingdom, celebrating our 10-year anniversary in teaching low code development & A.I. to solve your organisational challenges. Power Summit aims to demystify the complexities of A.I. and Power Platform development using fun & creative learning techniques inspired from Lego and Star Wars to provide a fun day of insight driven learning for technology professionals.
European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
With 3000 attendees, the European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025 are uniting forces to become a big, shared conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. New this year is the European BizApps Summit with a focus on Power Platform, Fabric and Dataverse.
DynamicsMinds 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
An awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
European Power Platform Conference 2025
(📅 June 16-19, 2025)
The European Power Platform Conference 2025 promises to be another great conference! The speakers will be announced soon, but make sure to check out the site already for the early bird sale!
Nordic Summit 2025
(📅 September 19-20, 2025)
Nordic Summit is the biggest and only in-person conference in the Nordics focused exclusively on Microsoft’s Power Platform and Dynamics 365. This year it will be held in Gothenborg, Sweden!
Power Platform Community Conference 2025
(📅 October 28-31, 2025)
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. PPCC 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.
💙 Out of the Blue
Announcing new computer use in Microsoft Copilot Studio for UI automation
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 This week, Charles Lamanna announced the new computer use feature in Microsoft Copilot Studio, which allows Copilot Studio agents to treat websites and desktop applications as tools. This is a very cool new feature, so make sure to read the whole blog!
Announcing Agentic Automation with Bidirectional Integration between Microsoft Copilot Studio & UiPath
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Bas Brekelmans announced a new bidirectional integration between UiPath and Microsoft Copilot Studio. With this integration you can invoke UiPath agents & automations from Copilot Studio agents, invoke Microsoft agents from UiPath Studio and automate long running and asynchronous processes. Read the blog and check out the embedded videos to learn more about the functionality.
Announcing the ‘Work with Power Fx functions’ Learning Path
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The Power Platform advocates team announce a new Learning Path that got released on Microsoft Learn: “Work with Power Fx functions”. This is a new learning path about the new functionality in the maker portal that used to be knows as instant low-code plugins.
Introducing Actions Pane for Power Pages Sites in VS Code Desktop
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Neeraj Nandwana wrote a blog about the new actions pane for Power Pages Sites in VS Code Desktop. With this pane you can now perform multiple actions on your Power Pages sites right from the Power Pages actions pane. To learn what options are available, make sure to read the blog and watch the included demo video.
Watch the FabCon Las Vegas keynote recording now!
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Last month, the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) was visited by over 6,000 attendees. The keynote is now available on YouTube to watch! So, if you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to catch up with the latest and greatest! Kim Manis provides a very handy overview of what’s new and links to detailed blogs if you want to learn more!
New mapping and location analytics capabilities in Microsoft Power BI
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Wangui McKelvey, you can learn more about three new features of the Microsoft Azure Maps visual. These features are: Share your custom maps on a website with Publish to web, create more interactive maps with Data-bound reference layers and visualize geographic connections between multiple points with the Path layer
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