Power Platform Dev Weekly #255
Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly!
#FakeXrmEasy got some new upgrades. Check out Jordi’s post in the “Socials of the week” section.
#DataverseDevTools also got quite a few updates; connection simplification, themed version for web view, better typings and some bug fixes. Look at the release notes here.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
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🥇 Cover Story
Setup Dataverse Git Integration For A Solution
by Matthew Devaney
A Power Platform solution can be connected to a Git repo for tracking and management of changes to code. This is known as source control. To do this, a Git repo must be setup inside an Azure DevOps project. Then you can choose whether to connect individual solutions or the entire environment to source control. Check out this step by step by Matt on how to connect your Dynamics solutions to Git.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Two Way Communication with the Form Component Control
by Dianamics PCF Lady
Interesting article from Diana where she explains how to implement two way communication with the Form Component Control in your Model Driven app with the help of an scenario.
Visualize Data in a View with Copilot (Preview) – Dataverse / Dynamics 365
by Nishant Rana
The copilot-powered data visualization in views feature, currently in preview, allows us to generate quick and insightful charts from Dataverse table views using natural language. We can select a table view and ask Copilot to generate visualizations, making data interpretation easier. Read this blog post to know more!
🌎 Power Pages
Inserting Content Snippets in Design Studio
by Nick Doelman
As part of the configuration of a web template component, you can specify a specific table, this allows the makers to navigate directly to the data workspace and add and edit data, including content snippets! This provides a directly link to the content snippet data without having to navigate to the Power Pages management app.
Why Our New Website Isn’t Built On Power Pages
by Nicolas Hayduk
When considering what platform to use for building external facing websites, we really only considered two options: staying with WordPress, or moving to Power Pages. Nicolas talks about few reasons for limiting our choices to those two.
😎 Power Automate
Fixing “Flow Client Error: BadRequest” in Power Automate Unbound Actions
by Inogic
In this blog, we’ll cover why the “Flow Client Error: BadRequest” error while working with Power Automate occurs and guide you through the exact steps to resolve it, ensuring your flows run smoothly without unnecessary disruptions.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Configure Pre-Deployment Stage Approvals
by Matthew Devaney
In his guide, Matthew outlines how to enhance Power Platform Pipelines to include deployment stage approvals. Stage approvals are important because they help the environment owner control what gets deployed into their environment. An approvals process should be a part of any Power Platform Pipelines process.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
A subtle change in authentication to Dataverse in Dataverse DevTool
by Danish Naglekar
If you have been using Dataverse DevTools and went through adding a connection to your Dataverse environment and picked “Microsoft Login Prompt” as the authentication type you might have gone through the process where you need additional Global Admin approval for the app. This approval is no longer required and the underlying issue has been fixed by our very own Danish!
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Cost Plus Billing in Project Operations - Priyesh Wagh
🎥 Videos
🤳Socials of the week
➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jordimontana_fakexrmeasy-ugcPost-7310291903772549120-1d3p/
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