Power Platform Weekly - Issue #99

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week announcements were made in the official Microsoft blogs as well as at the Microsoft Power Platform Conference (MPPC).

• Power BI reports and datasets can now be added to solutions

• The Automation Kit for Power Platform is here

• Deeper SAP integration

• Cards for Power Apps, based on the Adaptive Card Framework

• Coauthoring in model-driven apps

• Maker matching, powered by Power Virtual Agents

Read more and see this recap post from MPPC.

Captured highlights spotted (thanks for sharing!)

• Coauthoring for model-driven apps

• Dark mode for model-driven apps

• Roadmap for Custom Pages

New podcast spotted, The HR Talk by Ana Inés Urrutia.

Nordic Summit was held this past weekend. The event team also released a podcast, listen on recordings with participants, speakers, organizers and sponsors from the event.

Thanks for reading and have a great week!

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📰 Articles

Featured articles from Ulrikke Akerbæk, Amey Holden and Diana Birkelbach

How to style Power Pages

🦸🏻‍♀️ Ulrikke Akerbæk was one of the speakers at Nordic Summit 2022. Here's the same topic, how to style Power Pages - from the simplest theming to the most advanced custom styling!

Managing Preferences, Consent and Subscriptions with Dynamics 365 Realtime Marketing

🦸🏻‍♀️ Following on from her previous post, in this post Amey Holden shows us how to automate the update of contacts consent and marketing permissions so that it aligns with the subscription changes made.

Implement Calculated Columns with Power Apps Grid Control

👩‍💻 We can implement calculated columns using Dataverse formula columns and that should be the first choice. But that won't work in offline mode. Using the Power Apps Grid customizer control, Diana Birkelbach could get it work offline too.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Formatting Section or Field Label as Bold/Italic in Model-driven App by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to use Power Apps named formulas (experimental feature) by Michel Mendes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Parse JSON Examples by Heba Kamal

👩‍💻 Applying UCI Styling to a FluentUI DatePicker component by Andrew Butenko

🦸🏻‍♀️ Constant variables in Power Apps canvas apps - All you need to know about named variables in Power Apps by Debajit Dutta

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Gallery Design & UX Guidelines by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Record ownership across business units (PREVIEW) by Inogic

🦸🏻‍♀️ Perfect solution to Archive Emails using Power Automate by Clavin Fernandes

👩‍💻🛠️ SQL 4 CDS v7 Released by Mark Carrington

👩‍💻🛠️ Let’s try Dataverse DevTools to easily create/update WebResource  customizations! by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

🤵🏻 Ashley and Merlin discuss a few exciting Wave 2 updates coming for the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 as a way to ease back into the Hotdish.

👩‍💻 The team is tackling when to process and the placement of adding data-friendly names in our Power BI reports, and just how friendly they should be.

🧭 Markus Erlandsson and Heidi Neuhauser have a chat with Chris Cognetta from congruentX about Viva Sales. Chris starts by explaining the Viva brand as a whole and how Viva Sales join into that, then Chris explains Viva Sales features and it is now a lot easier to use advanced AI features to turn conversations into actions.

📅 Events & Webinars

📅 October 10th-13th - Summit NA is packed with 600+ informative and educational sessions to deliver end-to-end learning around all versions of Dynamics 365 FO/AX, CE/CRM & BC/NAV, Dynamics GP & SL and the Microsoft Power Platform.

📅 October 12th-14th - Save the date and explore the latest innovations, learn from product experts, and level up your skillset – join us to help shape the future of tech.

📅 October 14h-15th - A completely free-of-charge two-day event for professional people working with Microsoft technology. It focuses on all three pillars of the Microsoft platform: Business Applications, Modern Workplace, and Azure.

💙 Out of the Blue

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 This overview blog highlights the big announcements that were made during the Microsoft Power Platform Conference. One of which is the Power Up program, which helps career switchers to move to the Power Platform.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Microsoft announced the public preview on managing Power BI reports and datasets native components in Power Platform solutions. Which gives you way better ALM options.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Microsoft’s acquisition of Clear Software has led to new functionality for organizations running SAP in Power Apps, Power Automate, and Logic Apps that will enable large-scale adoption of the Power Platform.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 The Automation Kit is now available for free on GitHub! The Automation Kit for Power Platform is designed to help organisations manage, govern, and scale automation platform adoption based on industry best practices.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Introducing desktop flow activity, a new way to monitor automations, easily identify issues and measure machines’ health.

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Three big announcements straight from the Microsoft-sponsored Power Platform Conference: cards for Power Apps, co-authoring, and maker matching are coming to environments near you, soon!

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Microsoft announced the initial release of a query performance optimisation aimed at processing Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) queries more efficiently, known as “Horizontal Fusion”. This will optimise performance especially for DirectQuery mode.

🤵🏻 Do you use Power BI Metrics? Microsoft wants to hear from you! The Power BI team is collecting user feedback through a brief survey. This is your chance to influence the product!

🚀 Microsoft released the September update for the on-premises data gateway (version 3000.142.14). This update brings the on-premises data gateway up to date with the September release of Power BI Desktop.

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