Power Platform Weekly - Issue #67

Articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Learn how to create a teleprompter app using Power Apps with lots of configuration options - font size, scroll speed and more!

🦸🏻‍♀️ Antti Pajunen has put together a guide which describes how to create rows in the Scheduling tables automatically using Power Automate.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Jukka Niiranen shows all makers a little trick. You don't need to install Visual Studio Code and set up Git repository sync locally to access Power Apps source code, thanks to github.dev.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Using Power Fx in Cloud Flows by Phil Cole

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tip #12 Check yourself out of the spam folders! by Vivian Voss

🦸🏻‍♀️ Extract text from an image in less than a minute using AI Builder (it works on handwriting too) by Rishona Elijah

🦸🏻‍♀️ Merging Word files with Power Automate in Teams by Leon Tribe

🚀 2022 January DC Chapter Meeting – CoE Starter Kit by Kylie Kiser

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to calculate media file size in a Power Apps canvas app? by Mehdi El Amri

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create file correctly in SharePoint from Dataverse connector using Power Automate, base64ToBinary expression by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ Enable Quick Create Form for Tables by Linda Le

🚀 Solution deployments: Automated vs Manual by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Resource not showing in scheduling assistant while available?! by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Set the task priority in Microsoft Planner using Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra

🚀 ALM Power Platform ✨ Part 1 - Overview and Process by Mats Necker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Avoid buffer size error for List Rows using Power Automate Flows by Roohi Shaikh

Tools & Code

👩‍💻 Andrew Butenko describes integration with Dataverse using Azure Functions. XrmTooling is .Net Framework based, to leverage this package V1 Azure Functions are used. Microsoft has released .Net Core version of the tooling for Public Preview (i.e. not yet for production). In this post, Andrew provides step-by-step instructions for migrating existing v1 functions to v3.

👩‍💻 Dataverse Web API and REST Client VS Code extension by Guido Preite

👩‍💻 FetchXML aggregate queries, lookup fields and paging by Mark Carrington

👩‍💻 Implement Push Changes from Dynamics CRM to Other Source Systems Using WebJobs by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

👩‍💻 Dataverse REST Builder and Lookups by Guido Preite

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ FetchXML Builder version 1.2022.1 by Jonas Rapp

Videos

Podcasts

Daryl and Scott interview Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and chat about his latest tool, the XRM Tokens Runner. Also available in VIDEO format.

Microsoft Team's Vice President, Kristina Behr, joins Jeremy Chapman to share updates for using Teams on the frontline. New mobile app experiences with Microsoft Viva Connections Updates to the Teams Walkie Talkie experience for frontline workers to connect and collaborate on the go Simplified provisioning and device management experiences for admin supporting frontline staff New APIs and connectors to integrate Teams with your existing workforce management solutions.

In the 69th episode, Megan and Lisa catch up after a break and talk about new release announcements, certifications, events coming up, tons of community content and some great films they've watched.

Events & Webinars

📅 January 20th 2022 - Learn about the Power Platform Document Automation Toolkit and how to apply it for a real-world use case. Elaiza Benitez will show what’s possible!

📅 January 20th 2022 - This month’s webinar will be a panel discussion on the most important changes to the Power Platform for Small and Medium sized businesses, and then a discussion on what we think is coming for 2022.

📅 January 20th 2022 - Information from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Support team (PFE) working directly with customers using Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.

Out of the blue

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️ Microsoft updated Power Apps Ideas with new enhancements like SharePoint and Excel support, filtering by choice and yes/no columns, and more!

👩‍💻🚀 In this blog post, Jeroen ter Heerdt highlights how you can integrate Power BI reporting into .NET apps. He also gives a sneak preview into what's coming!

🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this community call, Shadrack Inusah will walk through how to create an audio player using Power Apps and Kavishi Agarwal will walk through the new Power Apps Pay-as-you-go features.

🤵🏻🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Akansha Gawade, you will find the Business Leaders’ Guide to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Migration whitepaper and other valuable resources.

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