Power Platform Dev Weekly #236
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Last week the Scottish Summit ran with the help of editors
and and it was a really good event, reminding us why we love community so much. Thank you to the team here at PPDevWeekly who all picked up the slack for those of us who were supposed to be editing but couldn’t find the time to do it!Scottish Summit had some amazing content and an awesome keynote from Scott Hanselman - more of which you’ll see below!
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Automate Power Platform Environment Creation & Solution Imports with GitHub Actions
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🥇 Cover Story
Scott Hanselman @ Scottish Summit 2024
The opening keynote for Scottish Summit was a fresh, funny and insightful take on modern day AI. Completely live demos delivered with Scott’s unique sense of humour results in a fantastic keynote that anything with a passing interest in tech should check out.
😎 Power Automate
Power Automate: Instant Low-Code Plugins To Run PowerFx Code
by Matthew Devaney
I was a little unsure where to post this one! It’s an AWESOME post by Matthew and covers so many area of the Power Platform in incredible depth. Low code plugins have so much potential - if there is one article you read this week, please spend the time on this one!
by David Wyatt
David highlights expressions and where to find how they work along with some tips in this great article.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
How to Delete the elastic table records in Dataverse
by Nishant Rana
Deleting elastic table records can be awkward and whilst it looks like it works, it may not. Nishant experienced this exact issue and talks in depth about it.
Theme Management for Dataverse Model Driven Apps
by Riccardo Gregori
Riccardo highlights how to theme your MDA with nods to XrmToolBox tool for WYSIWYG tool.
Dataverse Automated Low-code Plug-in Tutorial
by Charles Sexton
It’s a low code plugin week! Charles releases a great tutorial on low code plugins too - it’s great to see community content on low code plugins more and more as it’s an exciting feature.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Power Pages: Versus Power Apps
by Nick Hayduck
Nick takes a forum question and expands upon it with his vast Power Pages knowledge, combining it with Power Apps knowledge and provides us with this interesting thoughts on the technologies and the different ways they can be applied.
🤖 Copilot
Integrate Your Custom Copilot into Your Canvas App in Power Apps
by Inogic
Inogic breaking down how to add your own custom copilots into canvas apps, step by step!
Edit your copilot with code editor
by Daniel Laskewitz
Daniel’s latest #AIInAction series shows how to edit the YAML of your topics and actions directly in Copilot Studio and unpacking and editing in VS Code
⛅ Around Azure
Develop APIs faster, smarter, and more securely
A great hub created by Microsoft on API’s and everything you could want to know. This might not necessarily be brand new content - but our team hadn’t seem this before so we thought it would be useful to share it on!
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
My Journey Through the Yearly Cycle of Conferences: An Introvert's Perspective - Éric Sauvé
Cards in Power Apps - D365 Demystified - Priyesh Wagh
📢 Call for Speakers
A look at CFS closing soon
ColorCloud Hamburg 2025 - Closes November 17, 2024
🎥 Videos
🔊 Podcasts
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Nice post! Thank you!
Now that Co-authoring is generally available, do you think there are some caveats to it?
Some recommendations on when not to use it?
Our team has been testing it since July and we found that it fails in specific circumstances. And when publishing a new version, it’s best to have only one person in the session, for instance.