Power Platform Dev Weekly #244

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Jan 08, 2025

Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly!

And just like that, the season has come to a close, and we’re back! Whether you celebrated a holiday, enjoyed some time off, or just took a well-earned break, we hope it was a refreshing and fulfilling time. Here’s to an exciting 2025 ahead!

If you missed it, just before the winter break, our sister weekly newsletter, the Power Platform Weekly, celebrated its 4th anniversary! Well done to Carina, Ed, Magnus and even Daniel for 4 years of collating the news we steal from every week!

Unsurprisingly there isn’t a whole host of news coming directly from Microsoft , with the exception of Satya Nadella’s prediction of AI Agents potentially replacing Business Applications entirely…

We hope you enjoy the content of this week.

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🥇 Cover Story

Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview)

by Nick Doelman

Nick starts us of for 2025 with what could be one of the great new things released - the Power Platform Plan Designer. Nick has taken some time to set it up, play with it and talks about his thoughts and takeaways from it.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Hydrate Development Environments via Power Platform Pipelines
by Matt Collins-Jones
MCJ is back again, smashing 2025 talking about the newer Power Platform Pipelines features. Pipelines ended the year being a hot table and lots of different takes - MCJ states his view and shows some uses.

Pop goes the weasel - Hart of the Midlands
by Mike Hartley
Mike discusses the art of the Popup within the Power Platform, particularly as it pertains to accessibility in our applications.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Create an Avatar with presence status indicator in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
We take online indicators for granted so I really admire what Pieter has tried to do here - add it into a Power App and tell us exactly how he’s done it. Lovely post, thank you Pieter.

😎 Power Automate

List, Filter and Delete Flows in Power Automate
by Amey Holden
Power Automate inception! Amey details a great blog post to show how she used Power Automate to clean up the state of her Power Automate system.

Get the difference between two dates (Updated 2025)
by Josh Cook
Josh revisits a popular topic and a regular frustration within Power Automate but in awesome details. Always a useful one to know and one I imagine that will save a lot of people a lot of time!

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

JSON: A Recipe For Success
by Chris Harper
Less Power Platform specific but still something a developer could spend some time reading - JSON fundamentals, tips and tricks.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Power Pages: Power Automate List Action Button
by Nick Hayduk
Nick was posed a community question and, as he always does, smashes the answer out the the park and shares with us his findings. Thank you Nick!

Extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with agents & Graph Connectors
by Lewis Baybutt
Not strictly Power Platform but let’s be honest, the lines are blurred! This is a great post by Lewis about a tech stack familiar to a lot of us but with some things we may not have done before.