Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #15

🥇 Cover Story

One of various ways to create a Dynamics 365 record link in Power Automate

Send an e-mail with a record URL you need to define which model driven app to display. So, what’s the easiest way to get that darn app ID?

👍 Power Platform Updates

Ercument created his own guide on how to connect Apple Siri to Dynamics 365 + Power Platform

If OOB maintenance page doesn't work for you then you need to read this. Display maintenance page to users but should work as usual for Admins

Thanks to Microsoft Teams connector directly used in Power Apps you can post messages to your channels from your Power Apps.

💎 Common Data Service

Want to know an easy way to add new users to CDS? Then read this blog.

What if you have created a new custom column in the SharePoint library and you want to show that that in the documents subgrid?

Alex Shlega shows us a way to work with pre/post images in PowerAutomate; without code.

🏋️‍♂️ PowerApps & Power Automate

George explains a smart way to get an Environment Variable in a flow

There are times when you need to send an email to unresolved recipients in Dynamics 365. This blog explains how to achieve that using Power Automate.

We will explore how to pass the Collection from Power Apps (Canvas App) to Power Automate.

🚀 PowerApps Component Framework (PCF)

Scenario: in this post we will see how to configure Node.js and Typescript into your machine to develop your first custom component (PCF).

The component allows you to upload a file from your computer into a canvas app and return the Data Url or the Text of the file.

🔨 Tools & Components

Carl Cookson created a new tool in XrmToolBox that lets you change the organization DB settings

A control to get the URL for the app’s CDS environment inside of a canvas app.

A control to select date with a configurable set of options. It uses the datepicker of Fluent UI.

🎮 DevOps, Visual Studio & All Tech

Learn how to test your ARM templates with the what-if module and deploy them through a CI/CD pipeline directly to Azure DevOps.

In this blog post you will learn how to add Quality Gates for Check-Ins to your Azure DevOps git repository. To help increase the quality of your code.

In this series, Khoa Nguyễn will setup a modern workspace to work with Web Resources in D365 using most relevant technologies

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Jon Stypula @stypulation

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🤩 Thanks for reading

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