Power Platform Dev Weekly #172

Jul 05, 2023

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Mike Hartley continues his series on a11y. Lewis Baybutt just finished his 4-part series on building a task creation screen; part 3 & 4 are highlighted in this post.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

Announcing General Availability for Shared Device Mode for Power Apps on Android

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🥇 Cover Story

Finishing the task creation screen - Planning Revision & Assignments - Part 4
by Low Code Lewis
A nice blog-series on how to build a task creation app. I liked how Lewis has highlighted some of the key accessibility things.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

How to use CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple messages using Dataverse SDK Client
by Debajit's Blog
You will learn to improve your latency by sending a bulk create or update multiple request using Dataverse SDK in this post.

Implement a PDF preview in a Model Driven Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Recently Pieter needed to implement a PDF preview in a Model Driven App. This should be quite an easy thing to implement.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Timing issues in relation to App OnStart, Screen OnVisible, Timers and user interruptions in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
When you create apps, it is important to understand the timing issues that may happen. When various elements manipulate data, things could go wrong quite.

Power Apps Dynamic Forms - Generate Forms From A Questions List
by Matthew Devaney
Power Apps dynamic forms can be created once and reused across multiple apps by loading it with a collection of questions & data types.

Building a Menu Component - Platforms of Power
by Craig White
Walking through what Power Platform components are, why they are useful, then outlining the steps to build a Power Apps menu component.

😎 Power Automate

Power Automate Flows: Why proper naming is important
by It Ain’t Boring
In my review process 9 out of 10 flows have not named their actions and triggers; they just keep the default. Well Alex here tells us why it is important to name things in cloud flows.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Show or Hide Chat Widget After Operating Hours in CSw
by Carl de Souza
In this post, we will look at Customer Service workspace chat functionality for hiding and showing the widget.

Develop Paginated Report using Power BI Report Builder
by Inogic
In this post, you will learn how to get started with building paginated reports.