Power Platform Weekly - Issue #8

Articles

Sr. Technical Specialist Jesper Osgaard shows us how Teams event functionality is now incorporated directly into Dynamics 365 Marketing, allowing you to host Teams live events for webinars and Teams meetings for interactive online meetings.

MVP Alex Shlega is doing a new series of blog posts about Virtual Entities! In part 1 he explained how useful Virtual Entities can be when integrating external data with Dataverse. Here in part 2 he takes us though the process of setting up a Virtual Entity and creating a Custom Data Provider.

Microsoft has launched a campaign that offers the Power Apps Per App and Per User licenses at a considerable 70% discount for all new purchases that meet certain volume and channel criteria. MVP Jukka Niiranen is back explaining licensing!

🦸🏻‍♀️ Make A Calendar In Power Apps – Part 2 by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Fundraising And Engagement For D365 Sales by Carl Cookson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Importing time entries, Part I by Antti Pajunen

🦸🏻‍♀️ The target in the Launch function in Power Apps by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ Push notifications for D365 Field Service model-driven app by Dian Taylor

🧭 Announcing a New Limited Time Power Apps Licensing Offer for 2020/2021! by Joe Griffin

🦸🏻‍♀️ Working with large CDS datasets in Power Automate flows and logic apps by Thanura Wijesiriwardena

🦸🏻‍♀️ Import Contacts AND Variables To Send Personalised Surveys From D365 Customer Voice by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Flow – Controlling Microsoft Dataverse API Assignment by Jerry Weinstock (CRM Innovation)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Portals – How to Show the Menu Link for a Restricted Page by Nick Doelman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Flow API Calls – How are they counted by Jerry Weinstock (CRM Innovation)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automatically re-enable flows that were suspended in Power Automate by Pieter Veenstra

🦸🏻‍♀️ Using outputs() function and JSON Parse to read data from missing dynamic value in a Flow | Power Automate by Priyesh Wagh

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamically Populate Polymorphic Lookup Value in Power Automate by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ A New Way to Schedule Resources and Use Schedule Board by Inogic

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate flow - Fix the trigger! by Éric Sauvé

🦸🏻‍♀️ Self-service Microsoft Form for external guests to use Power app by John Liu

Tools & Code

In this article Power Platform Consultant Benedikt Bergmann explains why to use TypeScript, how to set up a TypeScript project for Dataverse from scratch, including Webpack, ESLint and Prettier.

👩‍💻 PCF: 2 tips to minify the size of your PCF components (up to 15 times smaller) by Andrew Butenko

👩‍💻 Shared variables in Dataverse plugins. Surprise, surprise… by Alex Shlega

👩‍💻 Improving Insert/Update/Delete Performance in D365/Dataverse by Mark Carrington

👩‍💻 Run your own AppSource Validation by Eric Wauters

👩‍💻 Using Specflow and EasyRepro to improve Automated UI Testing by Tricia Sinclair

👩‍💻 DevOps Dataverse ALM using Power Apps CLI: a source centric approach by Diana Birkelbach

Videos

Podcasts

Geetha Sivasailam shares her journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP, as well as the benefits and how to get involved in the community.

Dataverse for Teams sample apps, an awesome feature in D365 Customer Voice, community updates, historic fiction books and SMART homes!

UC Today host Rob Scott and expert guest and Microsoft MVP, Tom Arbuthnot, bring us this festive December 2020 Teams news update.

Events & Webinars

Microsoft Certification 365 Saturday is organised by MCT & MVP Julian Sharp and Neil Parkhurst who are focused on helping you on your Journey of passing exams.

The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference is excited to announce that they are teaming up with the Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Power Platform communities for an exciting, 3-day, VIRTUAL event to be presented December 9-11, 2020.

Out of the blue

This year, Microsoft is commemorating Computer Science Education Week with a fun new week-long celebration that we’re calling the Hour of Low-Code.

This blog consists of recommendations on how to maximize performance of your Power Apps.

In this video, Microsoft highlights the capabilities for offline for model-driven apps.

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