Power Platform Weekly - Issue #3

Articles

Power Platform & Dynamics 365 Specialist Tae-Rim Han explains how to build a flow that extracts and consumes the remote execution context in a no-code approach. If you have not found your way to Tae's blog before - now's the time. This blog is definitely worth a visit!

When you build custom solutions where you need to create, read, update or delete data in the Common Data Service (including Dynamics 365 apps), you don’t necessarily want that application to use specific user credentials to do its work. MVP Nick Doelman explains what a CDS Application User is and when you might need one.

🤵🏻 Improved duplicate detection and merge experience in Dynamics 365 for Sales– 2020 Release Wave 2 by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Marketing & an unusual error by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to make a field required dynamically in Power Apps canvas app by Debajit Dutta

👩‍💻 Migrate Schedule Board(s) to other environments by Thomas Dayman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Make A Power Apps Approvals Form by Matthew Devaney 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Creating an Omni Channel Engagement Hub Trial by Tricia Sinclair

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Portal Series Wrap Up by Virtual Power Group

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Custom Connector Series #2 – OMDb/IMDb by Matt Beard 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform geographical availability by Ramon Tebar

🦸🏻‍♀️ Stop Using Email for Notifications. Use Teams! by Joseph C. Markovich

🦸🏻‍♀️ Use Power Automate to copy multiple selections from Choice columns between Microsoft Lists by Norm Young

🦸🏻‍♀️ Run As context in CDS (Current Environment) Flow Trigger by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ No Code HR - Ideas of the month by Kamal Radhakrishnaiah

Tools & Code

This is an interesting article from Chief Technologist Mark Carrington. There is a way to avoid plugins from being executed?! Interesting but make sure to THINK TWICE about your use case before implementing this approach, the plugins are most likely there for a reason.

👩‍💻 Custom Translations – the Easy Way by Jonas Rapp

👩‍💻 Extending Common Data Service using Azure Function – Part 1 by Allan De Castro

👩‍💻 Formatting Output result for your actions in Custom Connector by Roohi Shaikh (Inogic)

👩‍💻 How to call Xrm.WebApi using TypeScript by Benedikt Bergmann

👩‍💻 Extracting Dynamics 365 / Power Apps Solutions Using YAML (Azure DevOps) by Joe Griffin

👩‍💻 Match the theme of Dynamics 365 App in Power Apps Control Framework – Part 1 by Inogic

👩‍💻 Access token endpoint versions in Azure AD by Joris Poelmans

Videos

Podcasts

MVPs Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp and their guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft talks about the (almost released) Power Platform ALM Starter Kit, a tool to help manage and solve all your Power Platform ALM woes!

MVPs Joel Lindstrom, George Doubinski, and Shawn Tabor talk about both George’s new in-line code editor function for Power Automate and as well as Project Oakdale vs. CDS.

MVPs Megan V. Walker and Lisa Crosbie talk about Dynamics 365 Fundraising & Engagement, Imposter Syndrome, understanding Twitch and online streaming, The West Wing and The Rap Game!

Out of the blue

👩‍💻 Introducing Custom API preview Custom API preview is announced on the Power Apps blog.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Mobile Offline for Power Apps Offline capabilities for Model-driven Apps announced on the Power Apps blog.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate: Easier setup, creation, and runtime configuration of UI flows (VIDEO) 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Build a Bot - Episode 2 - Using Power Automate with your Power Virtual Agent (VIDEO)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps: Managing form settings (VIDEO)

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