Power Platform Weekly - Issue #35

Articles

Model-driven apps - a defined data model, on top of which app UI and background features are generated. Canvas apps - the freedom of combining data sources together with a few lines of Power Fx code. What if we could get the best of both - the freedom of a Connector based Canvas app AND the strong relational data management capabilities of Model-driven apps. In this article, Jukka Niiranen describes how some elements of the unified platform story are starting to emerge.

If the HTTP request you make in a cloud flow gets a 200 OK response all is good, but if the HTTP response has status codes like 408 - Request Timeout, 429 - Too many requests, 522 - Connection Timeout, 404 - Not found, 400 - Bad request etc there is a problemwhich needs attention. In this article Mohamed Ashiq Faleel shows us how we can handle HTTP request failures.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Modern Model App designer (preview) by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Let's extend D365HR! by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Handle HTTP request failures in Power Automate by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Desktop – Document Automation by Joe Gill

🦸🏻‍♀️ Managed solutions – what are the benefits? by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Omnichannel Admin Center (Part I) by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Enhanced enhanced experience to add products by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Migrate to Omnichannel Admin Center by Neil Parkhurst 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Why you should consider periodic / on demand refresh for the Canvas Apps / Flows by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Get started with child flows in Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ A Visual Guide To Power Apps Containers by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Display Choices column of dataverse in Canvas App Gallery by Vaishali Vyas

Tools & Code

 👩‍💻 Dynamics CRM Webhook vs Power Automate Cloud Flow vs Plugin by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

👩‍💻 Extend access token lifetime by Ramon Tebar

👩‍💻 Field Service Technician Service Reporting Development Guide by Thomas Dayman

👩‍💻 Connect D365 Developer Toolkit to a Dataverse environment using Global Discovery service (deprecation of the Regional Discovery service) by Mehdi El Amri

Videos

Podcasts

Richard chats with April Dunnam about backing up and maintaining versions of Power Apps over time.

Ayca returns to talk with Jeremy and Paul about updates to change notifications in Microsoft Graph.

Today, Ben and Scott dive into Azure Resource Manager Template Specs, the new Azure Firewall connector for Azure Logic Apps, and some of the changes coming to how you manage Azure AD with PowerShell.

Events & Webinars

Danish Naglekar will showcase creating a React App for Dataverse this coming June 16th at 7 pm EST.

June 17th from 6 pm - 6:45 pm BST, Arpit Shrivastava will show us how to configure ALM for portals in no time!

Out of the blue

This week, the general availability (GA) of Power Apps component framework for canvas apps was announced. This release marks a significant milestone for Power Apps to bridge the gap between code-first and citizen developers and offer true no-cliffs extensibility.   

Microsoft introduced the modern app designer this week, a new authoring experience now available in Preview worldwide. It is now easier and faster than ever to build model-driven apps. With just a few clicks, you can get robust, powerful grids and forms on top of Dataverse, and preview your app changes directly in the authoring experience.

The Power Virtual Agents Architecture Series covers features, design choices, and management to help Architects, Developers and IT Decision Makers successfully implement PVA projects.

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