Power Platform Weekly - Issue #37

Articles

Schedule APIs were introduced to public preview in the spring of 2021 for D365 Project Operations and Project for the web (later P4W). They’re used to programmatically create, update, and delete what are known as scheduling tables. In this article Antti Pajunen describes the why and how of Schedule APIs as well as Scheduled APIs in combination with Power Automate and custom project templates.

As you might have heard the previous Power Apps Community plan has evolved and we're now talking about a Power Apps Developer Plan. In this article Carsten Groth drills into the details and facts we currently know and give his thoughts around the governance and licensing model around this Developer Plan.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Paging while using FetchXML in Dataverse Connector by Natraj Yeganaraman

🦸🏻‍♀️ The return of composite address control in model-driven apps - now with built-in autocomplete functionality by Linn Zaw Win

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

🦸🏻‍♀️ Pass customer data from pre-chat survey to PVA by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ 2 Ways to insert dates into Excel using Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create Power BI Report to analyze Dataverse/Dynamics 365 data in Azure Data Lake by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Return Error in Power Automate When Using Try/Catch Scopes by Rick A. Wilson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Advanced Lookup in Model-Driven Apps by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ Exam PL-400 Revision Notes: Series Roundup by Joe Griffin

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create new record from lookup column in PowerApps Portal by Vaishali Vyas

🦸🏻‍♀️ Troubleshooting real-time marketing journeys by Jesper Osgaard

Tools & Code

New Catalog Manager tool for XrmToolBox to manage Dataverse Business Event Catalogs by David Rivard.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Role Replicator – XrmToolBox Tool by Carl Cookson

👩‍💻 Get Environment Variable in a Flow using Custom Web API by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

👩‍💻 Power Platform VSCode Extension vs Power Apps CLI Rebranding by Diana Birkelbach

👩‍💻 Async OnSave handlers to cancel save operation, stop save until certain async events are executed by Debajit Dutta

👩‍💻 PCF: PowerAppsCLI v1.7.2, Lookup attributes and how to fix an issue in ManifestTypes generated file by Andrew Butenko

👩‍💻 Troubleshooting Power Platform Extension for VSCode – PAC Connection Timeout & Co… by Diana Birkelbach

Videos

Podcasts

Jeremy and Paul talk with Brian T. Jackett about the Graph Connectors API.

Ben and Scott talk about the release of Scheduler, the "new" AI, Cortana-based meeting scheduling service for Microsoft 365, updates on the timelines for disabling Basic Auth in Exchange, and a preview capability in SharePoint Online that will allow you to rename your SharePoint domain name.

Richard chats with Susan Hanley about the intimate relationship between Teams and SharePoint, especially when it comes to files. Susan talks about aligning SharePoint folders and Teams groups to be able to connect existing SharePoint information into Teams - and how Teams can become the interface to everything, especially with Viva!

Events & Webinars

Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 5:30 pm (GMT+2): Andrej Lapajne, Microsoft MVP and ZebraBI owner is presenting his famous session "7 Worst Power BI Dashboard Mistakes & How To Avoid Them".

Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 6:30 pm (BST): Approvals in Microsoft 365 & Building user engagement in MS Teams with Power Virtual Agents.

Thu, 01 Jul 2021, 4:00 pm (BST): The next Cambridge Power Platform User Group will be hosted on 1st July 2021. This is a free event driven by communities around the world, for anyone who wants to learn more about the Microsoft Power Platform. This event will be hosted via Microsoft Teams ending with a Q&A session.

Out of the blue

This post contains a set of real-world customer automation stories with a focus on robotics process automation (RPA) in Power Automate, including T-Mobile, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, and more!

AI-assisted bot authoring features – Topic overlap detection and Topic suggestions from chat transcripts are now available for public preview. 

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