Power Platform Dev Weekly #201

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Feb 14, 2024

Thank you all for your support for our 200th edition last week!

This week we’re back to earth with plenty of new blogs and videos to share. I have a feeling there will be lots more around over the next few weeks based on the first of our Microsoft updates…

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

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🥇 Cover Story

Microsoft Power Pages - Concepts Diagram
by Dani Kahil and Nick Doelman
Dani and Nick have pulled together a great resource for anyone wanting to understand the capabilities of Power Pages. It’s not just a pretty picture either - get the full PDF with links directly to the official docs for more information about each topic.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

More work ➡️ More features
by Jonas Rapp
The Legend™️ is back with more updates to the popular Bulk Data Updater tool. Get your data imported faster, time estimates for the import, skipping plugins and more!

Refresh Main Form When New Child Row is Added in Subgrid via Quick Create Form in Model-Driven App
by Linn Zaw Win
We’ve probably all had queries from users when a form isn’t refreshed automatically and it looks like there are inconsistencies in your calculated fields. Here Linn demonstrates how to avoid this when you need to recalculate something on the parent record when a child record changes in a subgrid.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Working With Form Controls In Power Apps
by Craig White
The Form control in Power Apps lets you quickly put together a standard data entry form. You might prefer using the Patch function to get more control, but it’s worth looking at the standard functionality to keep things simple where you can. Craig dives into this control which possibly doesn’t get the love & respect it deserves.

🤖 Co-Pilot

Copilot Risk Assessment Pt. 6
by Carsten Groth
Carsten continues his in-depth series looking at how Copilot works in Power Pages Design studio and the risks you need to be aware of. If you haven’t been following this series, be sure to catch up with the other parts of the blog too!

😎 Power Automate

When to create child flows in Power Automate?
by Pieter Veenstra
Make your flows more manageable by breaking them down into smaller reusable chunks. Pieter gives some great guidance on how and why to split up your flows.

Embedding a Dataverse Power Automate Flow Inside Power BI
by Carl de Souza
It’s great to see new possibilities opening up when you can bring multiple parts of Power Platform together, and now there’s a new world of possibilities with Power Automate coming inside Power BI reports.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Setting Default Publisher Prefix using Preferred Solutions in Power App
by Carl de Souza
It has long been an annoyance, but Copilot brought the issue of creating apps in the default solution to the fore. This preview option makes sure everything you create goes into the solution you’re working on to avoid accidentally using the default solution again.