Power Platform Weekly - Issue #81

Carina M. Claesson

Daniel Laskewitz

Ed Gonzales

, and

Magnus Gether Sørensen

Apr 25, 2022

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week the new Power Automate pane in Power Apps was introduced. Another announcement was that the on-premises data gateway April 2022 update is now available.

March brought us 3 new certified connectors and 10 updated.

Power BI Dev Camp will be held this week.

Spotted on Twitter, Release Planner Tool - new way to read Release Plans and Best practices for combining Dataverse and Power BI.

In case you missed it, Power Virtual Agents has announced a time limited offer with reduced prices.

Thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

A deep dive into Delegation

🦸🏻‍♀️ Delegation is both a fundamentally important and tricky to master topic. Joy Kirkwood shows the impact of delegation on app building, complete with some practical examples and tips on working around delegation issues.

PDF document from multiple images with Power Automate

🦸🏻‍♀️ Timo Pertilä demonstrates how to create a flow that produces a PDF document that includes multiple images. This could be, for example, an inspection report with pictures.

Colorful Optionset PCF – Virtual and Improved

👩‍💻Diana Birkelbach first PCF: the ColorfulOptionset 🧡💛💚💙💜🖤 was developed about two years ago and published on pcf.gallery. This month we've got a very important and long awaited PCF feature: the Virtual Components. Diana had to try it out, and the ColorfulOptionset seemed to be the best fit for this first try.

Some Brand New Features – and more! 1.2022.4

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🛠️ Jonas Rapp showcases the brand new features, bug fixes, and more coming to FetchXML Builder. Make sure you update to the latest version so you will not miss out! You can look forward to the possibility to Copy and Open URLs of the row or a lookup in the result view, relate connections to browsers/profiles (YAY) and much more!

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

🤵🏻 Today, Ben and Scott go through a follow-up on the end-user experience of working with Microsoft Teams Shared Channels.

🚀 In this episode, Mark and Chris break the sound barrier with Shyam Narayan (Principal Group Product Manager | Microsoft (SharePoint)) about optimizing SharePoint performance. It's all about scale, speed, and reliability of the SharePoint service in Microsoft 365, from page load times to file open/upload/download, and "not waiting for sync."

🦸🏻‍♀️ Microsoft's Charles Lamanna discusses what the company is doing in the low-code/no-code space with its Power Platform offering.

🧭 They're BACK! With a much-delayed episode featuring the AMAZING Malin Martnes - Microsoft BizApps MVP, Dynamics 365 Human Resources, CRM and Marketing.

📅 Events & Webinars

📅 April 28th - This Dev Camp session teaches developers how to leverage Power BI embedding features for report authoring and customization.

Campers will learn how to create a self-service authoring experience using the Power BI report designer by embedding reports in edit mode. Campers will also learn how to program the Power BI JavaScript Authoring API to automate the process of adding pages and visuals to an existing report.

📅 May 4th-6th - This is a free event for any and all who want to learn more about Microsoft 365 and Azure. Topics are Microsoft 365, including Teams, Power Platform, SharePoint, Viva, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Azure.

📅 May 21st - It’s time for an event in Oslo again! It’s been a long time since there has been a community event in Norway, but - May 21st, 2022 is the day!

Go to Norway in May and meet loads of other community people, share your session, and have an all-around fun time!

📅 May 19th-21st - The Power Apps Developer Bootcamp will be from 19th-21st of May 2022. A 3-day Live Bootcamp has been organized for the Global Power Apps Developer Community to share techniques and approaches for solving your Power Apps development challenges!

📅 May 24th - 26th - Come together and discover the latest innovations in code and application development—and gain insights from peers and experts from around the world.

💙 Out of the Blue

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 The new Power Automate pane brings the ability to add flows to the left pane, in the same way, you add other resources like data and media to your canvas app. When you click the Power Automate button, a new pane appears allowing you to see flows already included in your app or add existing flows.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 The AAD User table makes it easy to retrieve any user in your organization’s Azure Active Directory – not just users who have a Dataverse license assigned to them. You can also retrieve details like job title, email, phone number and more.

🚀 On-premises data gateway April 2022 update is now available. Check out the blog for more info!

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In March, three new connectors and ten updates from different service owners have been released.

🦸🏻‍♀️ The Excel team has been working hard on enabling more Power Query functionality inside of Excel for Mac. This article showcases a brief summary of the latest updates to the Power Query experience found in Excel for Mac.

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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #81

📰 Articles

A deep dive into Delegation

PDF document from multiple images with Power Automate

Colorful Optionset PCF – Virtual and Improved

Some Brand New Features – and more! 1.2022.4

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🎙️ Podcasts

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