Power Platform Weekly - Issue #6

Articles

MVP Nick Doelman about the big bang - how it all started and also why Dataverse is more than just a database. What is actually included in the box?

Make make.powerapps.com respect theme defined in Microsoft Dataverse to help makers work in correct environment. Go and vote for MVP Jonas Rapp's idea!

🦸🏻‍♀️ Welcome to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams by Team Forward Forever

🦸🏻‍♀️ How naming works in the Power Platform universe by Jukka Niiranen

🦸🏻‍♀️ Bye bye CDS and Project Oakdale, hello Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse for Teams by Carina M. Claesson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Environment Variables in Microsoft Power Automate Revisited by Joe Griffin

🦸🏻‍♀️ Omni Channel Engagement Hub : Initiating a Chat with a Custom Chat Button by Tricia Sinclair

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps: Adding the Component Library to a Solution by Emma D’Arcy

🦸🏻‍♀️ Make A Time Picker In Power Apps by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Using Power Automate word templates with Model-Driven apps by Alex Shlega

🦸🏻‍♀️ Personalised Sound Notifications for Omnichannel by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tip #1391: Content management in Power Apps portals by Geroge Doubinski

🦸🏻‍♀️ List of little known PowerApps Portal Site Settings and Content Snippets by Oleksandr Olashyn 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate “Scope” action – what does it have to do with the error handling? by Alex Shlega

Tools & Code

Lead Developer Diana Birkelbach explains how to use Fiddler AutoResponder in order to debug PCF Components.

👩‍💻  Dynamics 365 Relevance Search API : Increase your search capabilities | Dynamics Chronicles by Danny Rodrigues Alves

👩‍💻  The trick to updating custom lookups using the Dynamics 365 WEB API by Carl de Souza

👩‍💻 Use CrmServiceClient to execute web request against Web API – Dynamics 365 by Nishant Rana  

Videos

Podcasts

Megan and Lisa talk Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and terminology changes.

Matt welcomes MVPs Tricia Sinclair and Andrew Bibby to discuss origin stories and the 'Art of the Possible'.

Gus invited MVP Gustaf Westerlund to dive into the Product Catalog and share lessons learned and best practices.

Events & Webinars

Joe Griffin joins us to talk about the certification and learning available across the Power Platform. Ryan Maclean takes us on his migration journey, discussing the trials and tribulations of moving online.

In our 6th year of delivering online conferences, GlobalCon4 will be our best online Microsoft 365 Conference. We've got it all over 5 days, SharePoint, Office 365, Power Apps, Power Automate and of course Microsoft Teams!

Session presented by Tomasz Poszytek.

Session presented by Matt Beard.

Out of the blue

🦸🏻‍♀️ Reshape the future of work with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams—now generally available GA announcement Dataverse for Teams and CDS becomes Dataverse.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create flows easily with the new Power Automate app for Teams You can create Power Automate flows directly from within Teams!

👩‍💻 Power Virtual Agents integration with Bot Framework Composer is available in Public Preview Creating custom bots and embedding in PVA is now in Public Preview.

🚀 Manage Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments About admin and governance related to Dataverse for Teams.

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