Power Platform Dev Weekly #239
Microsoft Ignite Week!
Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly! Hope you enjoy this weeks edition.
We are going to press mid-way through Ignite and both we, nor many members of the community, have had a real chance to process what’s been talked about already or the things to come in the next few days so this week may be a little Ignite light of content - but expect more next week!
We do however now have the Ignite Book Of News so your bed time reading is sorted for this week (and beyond).
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- who gave a mega session in person at Chicago. Good job!Microsoft feature releases and announcements
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🥇 Cover Story
A Canvas app for bus tickets? Possible!
by Guido Preite
Taking inspiration from his recent trip to Scottish Summit, Guido explores how we can reproduce a bus ticket app as a canvas app.
😎 Power Automate
by Chris Harper
The next part of Chris’ series on JSON that we covered last week, this time he shows how to adjust the schema that’s generated for a Parse JSON step to allow null values.
Flows, Connection References and Connections… with some Service Principal Names
by Phil Kermeen
Phil gives us a really clear explanation of how Flows, Connection References and Connections link together and why, and how to best manage service principal connections to keep your solution maintainable.
Time Zone Labels in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys Events
by Amey Holden
Make it easier to understand when your events are happening by showing a clear time zone which handles daylight saving adjustments as well. Time zones are a perennial source of issues, and Amey has put together a nice reusable solution for us!
Secure Your APIs with Azure Key Vault
by Nati Turtledove
It’s easy to end up embedding crucial security information like API keys in a flow, which not only makes it harder to maintain when you need to change a key but also poses a security risk. Nati shows how to move those keys into a more secure solution using Azure Key Vault, or in part 2, using a custom connector.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Adventures with Power Platform: My First Deployment with GitHub Actions
by Matt Ruma
A great follow-on from last weeks’ cover story on pipelines, this week Matt gives GitHub Actions a try to store a solution in source control and deploy it to prod.
by David Wyatt
David shares a great post on the fundamentals of how to set up security roles and crucially how to migrate them to different environments through your solutions.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
SQL Stored Procedures in Power Apps and the maximum data row limit
by Pieter Veenstra
Pieter uncovers a way around the data row limit in canvas apps. One to think carefully about before you jump in and start using it everywhere, but it might unlock some new possibilities!
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
I got a lot of things wrong about AI along the way. It’s time to start putting things straight - Alex Shlega
📢 Call for Speakers
A look at CFS closing soon
ColorCloud Hamburg 2025 - Closes November 17, 2024
🎥 Videos
🔊 Podcasts
✨ Thanks for reading
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Hi, great content as usual!
Just a heads-up: the link in the "A Canvas app for bus tickets? Possible!" is not the correct one.
Cheers and have a great weekend!