Power Platform Dev Weekly #184

Anwesha Sharma

and

Danish N.

Oct 18, 2023

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🥇 Cover Story

Bootstrap 5 migration
by Oleksandr Olashyn
Bootstrap 5 was long awaited update for Power Pages. This change will allow us to create more complex and modern-looking websites. Oleksandr talks about the steps that are involved in the transition to Bootstrap 5.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

OCD With Solution Prefixes
by Nati Turtledove
Solution prefixes are incredibly important when it comes to ownership over solution objects and managing a sustainable Application Lifecycle Management framework.

Dataverse Custom API – Global and Entity (Binding Type) example
by Nishant Rana
In this post, we can see how a Global and Entity binding type Custom API can be defined, write a corresponding plugin, and then invoke/test through Postman.

😎 Power Automate

Fastest Way To Read Large Excel Table In Power Automate
by Matthew Devaney
You’ve got to check out this article on how to read large excel table in a Power Automate flow using HTTP with Azure connector.

How to call Child Flows & find the respective Parent Flow from it!?
by Power Melange
In this post, we will learn firstly how to create a child flow from parent flow & then how to quickly find the parent from the child without any hustle.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Filter based on Child Data
by Chris Harper
Here’s a quick demo on how to get a filtered list of records from a parent Dataverse table based on data in a child table

Pro Tip – How to use UpdateIf() in Canvas App
by Inogic
Let us explore the use and functionalities of the UpdateIf() Function using some simple examples.

⛅ Around Azure

Dataverse: Send WhatsApp Messages using Azure Communication Service
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy has written a detailed and very interesting use case that can enable businesses to communicate with their customer using WhatsApp and Azure Communication Service.