Power Platform Dev Weekly #191
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🥇 Cover Story
No longer a Microsoft MVP... I'm a Cloud Developer Advocate ☁️🥑
by Elaiza Benitez
Top spot for Elaiza here as a thank you for all her incredible community work over the years. Listen to Elaiza talk about how she’s joining an absolute dream time at Microsoft!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
How to Enable the Preferred Solution (Preview feature) in Dataverse?
by Arun Potti
Join Arun as they talk through a new preview feature around the preferred solution in great detail, something we should all be aware of to avoid those headaches down the line.
Transitioning from Unmanaged to Managed Solution
by Nishant Rana
Managed vs. Unmanaged is always a fun discussion, but here Nishant presents a step-by-step solution if you’re looking to switch to managed.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
How to reset the people picker control?
by Hardit Bhatia
Learn how to reset the modern Fluent UI people picker control from the Creator Kit with no Reset property and the Reset function not working!
Auto height, Containers and flexible font sizes in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Make sure your app stays accessible for people that need bigger text. The settings are all there, but are you always putting them together the right way?
😎 Power Automate
Troubleshooting Power Automate: Issues with Enabling Secure Inputs for Power Pages Trigger
by The Techie Dood
… a notable issue arises when attempting to enable secure inputs for an existing Power Automate with pre-defined input parameters, resulting in failures. This blog post will delve into the reasons behind this problem and provide a step-by-step resolution.
Read Only Sharing in Power Automate
by David Wyatt
David Wyatt takes us on a very interesting deep dive on read only sharing. Any blog post that manually unpacks a solution is great for me!
User Dataverse connector with non-current environments
by Alex Shlega
Connect to different Dataverse environments with the latest version of the Dataverse connector. Copy data between environments or lookup reference data from a master environment with this simple guide from Alex.
🌎 Power Pages
by Oleksandr Olashyn
Oleksandr updates the Power App Portal Helper to become the Power Pages Helper with some extra new features - any Power Pages fan should be aware of this tool!
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Limit number of Responses in Microsoft Form
by Dennis Goedegeburrue
Whilst I’m not totally sure Microsoft Forms falls under the Power Platform, Power Automate certainly does so that’s enough for me to include this blog post here. A really great read and a take on how to do clever administration for your Forms.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Why use managed solutions - Benedikt Bergmann
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