Power Platform Dev Weekly #180
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Do checkout this nice nugget shared by Nishant Rana that is part of 2023 Release Wave 2.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Streamline your governance and environment strategy using Default Environment Routing (preview)
September 2023 updates for Power BI, with Git integration, security updates and much more
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🥇 Cover Story
by David Wyatt
You don’t get the escape thinking about security by using Power Apps - David takes us through the critical steps to keep your data safe.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Editing the global ribbon in model-driven apps
by Lewis Baybutt
Give your users quick access to your custom functions through the top-level ribbon using Ribbon Workbench.
Dynamics 365 Field Mappings to Quote, Order and Invoice
by Neil Parkhurst
Avoid re-entering data by automatically mapping fields between quote, order and invoice.
by Nishant Rana
Get your data going places quicker than ever. Sometimes multiplexing isn’t a dirty word!
😎 Power Automate
2023 Power Automate Coding Standards For Cloud Flows
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew continues documenting best practice and standards across the Power Platform with an updated Power Automate coding standard.
by David Wyatt
One of the big challenges with maintaining production flows in Power Automate was the lack of read only access. This meant to read a flow log you would need full edit access, not good for production environments using Service Accounts. Fortunately Microsoft has launched AppInsights for cloud flows.
🌎 Power Pages
Power Pages in a day walkthrough
by ReadyXRM
Get started with Power Pages and build your own training route with these great pointers from Nick.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Building a Two-Level Menu Component
by Craig White
Speedy, data-driven two-level navigation system for your cavas apps.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
6 Use-Cases For The Power Apps App Formulas Property (Named Formulas)
by Matthew Devaney
Power Fx recently hit v1.0 - if you’re not already using it, Matthew’s got some great examples of where you can get started.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
How To Filter Activities by Selected Users in Power BI Reports? - Inogic
Data Validation PowerFx Code Using Regex Expression! - Geeks_D
Get Dataverse row changes - Dennis
MDA: Add confirmation and validation async onSave - Temmy Raharjo
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