Power Platform Weekly - Issue #73

The announcements from last week include the Power Platform CLI January update and updates to the Tenant-level analytics.

We could also read about installing the Power Platform VS Code extension when unable to install directly from the web.

Last week a new XrmToolBox tool was released, PCF to BPF, allowing us to add PCF controls to columns in Business Process Flows.

Remember to take care of one another, don't take things for granted and if you are able to donate and give support to humanitarian organizations, such as the Red Cross, please do. 💙💛

Thanks for reading!

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📰 Articles

Featured articles from EY Kalman, Amey Holden and Tae Rim Han

Calculated columns not working with data migration

🦸🏻‍♀️ EY Kalman has recently collected several orders in Dynamics 365 for the purpose of centralizing customer support. Through this journey he discovers that some calculated fields require price list, and how to fix this.

Prevent submission of a non-business email address in Dynamics 365 Marketing forms

🦸🏻‍♀️ Amey Holden shows us how to prevent submissions from non-business email address such as gmail.com or yahoo.com with Dynamics 365 Marketing Forms. Perfect for B2B customer and users alike.

Exploring OpenAPI Extensions (Part 2) – Dynamic Values and Friends

👩‍💻 In this post, Tae Rim Han looks at using dynamic values (x-ms-dynamic-values) and other document enriching extensions, such as x-ms-summary, to improve the usability and readability of an OpenAPI definition.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create A Power Apps Custom Theme – Colors, Fonts, Icons & Controls by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Environment Variable caching in Power Automate by Benedikt Bergmann

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tip #1427: Single letter custom formats for dates in Power Automate cloud flows by George Doubinski (CRM Tip of the Day)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Error Handling in Power Automate by Lewis Baybutt

🦸🏻‍♀️ Enhance your Power Apps by Roma Gupta

🦸🏻‍♀️🛠️ BPFs To Visio – XrmToolBox Tool by Carl Cookson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Custom Connector Series #5 – RegExReplace by Matt Beard

👩‍💻 How to use the SetValue and Save Methods in PCF Dataset Component by Inogic

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Lili Cheng, from the Power Platform team, joins Jeremy Chapman to walk through the updates: Extend PVA using the Bot Framework Composer to add adaptive cards Proactive communication built into bots Role-based access controls Embed Teams into your Power Apps.

The guys are back and dive into what it means and how important it is to reward, provide goals, and set up a Center of Excellence that motivates the people involved. 

The team is starting a new series focused on diversity within the Microsoft biz apps space, and what better place to start than with our guest, Lucas Diaz, co-founder of Ludia Consulting. Ludia is one of the few (if not the only) minority-owned Dynamics 365 partners, and Lucas offers some compelling points on the benefits and importance of diversity in the team, as well as some instructive points on fostering a healthy diverse team.

📅 Events & Webinars

📅 March 3rd - Leon Gordon of the Power BI UK User Group hosts a meetup where you can learn the basics of M from Matt Allington. Matt will also demonstrate concepts on how to learn more while writing queries.

📅 March 3rd - Michael Ochs will host this week's session from Zero to Hero. Plugin/Custom Work Activity (+ Unit testing) will be the subject this week.

💙 Out of the Blue

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 A big new update for Power Automate for desktop has been released. Yiannis Mavridis wrote a blog containing all the goodies: a new flow monitoring window, performance improvements, the new preview for display custom forms, and even more! Check it out!

👩‍💻🚀 The January update for the Power Platform CLI is here. Kartik Kanakasabesan blogged about the new updates, like device code auth support and solution versioning capabilities.

🚀 This week, TJ Vassar blogged about new features coming to the tenant-level analytics in the Power Platform Admin Center.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Miquella de Boer announced the February update for the on-premises data gateway. In this update, there are a few new connectors and some updated connectors. Read the blog for all the details!

👩‍💻🚀 In this blog post, Kartik Kanakasabesan explains how to install the Power Platform VS Code extension without having to install executables or extensions directly off the web.

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