Power Platform Dev Weekly #224
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This week (or after we pressed the big publish button last week) Microsoft laid out it’s plans for the next 6 months for Dynamics and the Power Platform. Vivian has a good write up of what it means here and if you want to watch a version, Nick & Ulrikke from BOOST have done a video here - please go and check them out.
Check out a host of new features and some great blogs in this week’s edition of #PPDevWeekly. Hope you’ll like it.
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🥇 Cover Story
Power Apps Snake
By David Wyatt
David makes us want to get out our Nokia phones (which will still be fully charged and working after all this time) to play snake by creating a version in Power Apps. Who needs modern day games when you can the incredible simplicity of Snake that so many of us grew up with.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
How To Enable Column Level Security In Dataverse
by Matthew Devaney
Column level security is something everyone should be familiar with and Matthew breaks it down very well by providing use cases and in depth examples of how to achieve it.
Dataverse: Create Custom Integration To Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
by Temmy Raharjo
Temmy goes deep into connecting a dataverse table to PostgreSQL with steps to complete the process, going into great detail and playing with some interesting technology we don’t see together all that often.
Licensing the Dynamics 365 Contact Center : Part 1
by Tricia Sinclair
Tricia highlights how to think about licensing for D365 Contact centre, her favourite topic!
🌎 Power Pages
Power Pages: Not So Public Key
by Nicholas Hayduk
Nicholas talks about an issue he faced helping to build an ISV product around keys and their workings around public and private. An interesting topic with well discussed thoughts and outcomes.
by Alex Shlega
Alex gets deep and dirty with lots of services to ensure licensing is adhered to and kept under control for Power Pages.
😎 Power Automate
Flattening a Nested JSON with Power Automate
by Chris Harper
JSON and Power Automate is powerful but often overly complex - Chris breaks that down and simplifies complex JSON into easier to handle objects.
by Dennis (Expiscornovus)
Full end to end user experiences can often be neglected and Dennis takes a question from a reader and implements a lovely end to end solution, guiding the user the whole way through. A fun read.
🤖 Copilot
Using Generative Answers to Provide Translations for Responses in Copilot Studio
By Em D’Arcy
Our favourite Irish person shows how to combine GenAI and Copilot Studio to create multi-language chatbots
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Power Platform Release 2024 wave 2 by Wilmer Alcivar
Set an app as a startup app – Power Apps Mobile by Nishant Rana
Microsoft Reactor: Activate contextualised data with Microsoft Graph, Power Platform & Copilot by Lewis Baybutt
Environment Routing - is it any good? by Craig White
🔊 Podcasts
🎥 Videos
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