Power Platform Dev Weekly #257
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🥇 Cover Story
Power Automate: Perform An AI Prompt On A PDF Document
by Matthew Devaney
Check out this fantastic post from Matt on how Power Automate can be used to run an AI Prompt on a PDF document. It’s surprisingly easy to do. Just create an AI Prompt and add a document or file as an input. Then connect the AI Prompt to a Power Automate flow. It is excellent at extracting values from a PDF and returning them in a simple to work with JSON format.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Enhance Your Data Visualizations with Copilot
by Inogic
With the new “Visualize” feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365, your role as a Data Analyst just got a whole lot easier. It saves you time by automatically creating charts based on the views and columns you choose, with a helpful AI explanation to break down the insights. This seamless CRM integration means smoother, more effective data analysis—helping you make smarter business decisions effortlessly.
Actions, Custom APIs, Functions and triggering them as Business Events
by Phil Kermeen
A custom API is the developer enhanced version of an action – logically it provides very similar functionality but it goes about doing it in a much more flexible and controllable way. Read to know more!
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Many to Many relationships in Canvas Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Many to Many relationships can be painful in Canvas Apps . In this post Pieter talks about how we can work with many to many relationships in Power Apps.
Using Large Excel files in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
We all know that Excel isn’t a good place to store your Power Apps data in. Still way to often developers use large Excel files for their Power apps data. But why is Excel not a good data source? Why do people still use it? And why are Excel files supported as datasources in Power apps? What are the limitations that we need to consider?
Filter all SharePoint Column Types in Power Apps
by Craig White
A common requirement in canvas app development is to use a gallery to show items in a SharePoint list. It’s unlikely we’ll want to overwhelm users with all the data, so will give the option to filter results. This can be in the form of a single filter option or combining multiple filters at once. Either way, we’ll need some Power Apps filter magic to help us.
😎 Power Automate
ChildFlowNeverPublished update
by Tomasz Poszytek
Tomasz provides a solution to the 'ChildFlowNeverPublished' error in Power Automate by breaking circular references before deployment and restoring them afterward.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Navigating Updates: Your Guide to Microsoft Power Platform Updates
by Andrew Ly
This article provides a high-level overview of managing updates for the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365. It is important to stay informed about the latest updates and understanding the different types of updates that are deployed to ensure platform stability and minimize disruptions.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Updating Records Without Triggering Plugins – Bypassing Plugin Execution in Dynamics 365 / Dataverse using C# - Nishant Rana
The New Power Platform Admin Center - David Wyatt
🎥 Videos
🔊 Podcasts
In this episode of XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Andrew Butenko, about his foray into Canvas Apps, and hist resultant Canvas App Watch PCF.
In this episode of Power Platform Boost Podcast, Ulrikke and Nick dive into AI, automation, Power Platform highlights, community events, and dad jokes in a packed episode full of laughs and insights.
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