Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #33

🥇 Cover Story

Since Dynamics CRM 2013 we’ve been able to create our own APIs within the XRM framework using the Custom Action process type. Recently a new option appeared in the maker portal called Custom APIs which sounded very similar, so Mark thought to take a look.

👍 Power Platform

Use icons from Power Apps Unified Interface in Power BI reports for a coherent user experience.

💎 Model Driven Apps & CDS

Stop using various tricks to embed a Power BI report and dashboard in as a system dashboard, we now have the out-of-the-box feature to do that.

Currently, we need to create http requests to retrieve the metadata of the entity or attributes of any entity. But now, CDS introduced a Web API method which helps you retrieve any entity metadata easily without creating any http requests.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Have you ever wanted to send push notification to people's phones to run a Power App?

Debajit explains us how he encountered a requirement from client on making field conditionally required and how he achieved it.

In this article Matt will show you how to make a Power Apps approvals form with multiple approvers and send approval requests via email.

Do your Power Apps restart after switching tabs in Teams losing all unsaved changes? Learn how to make your app sessions persistent!

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Wondering how to make your email look good with tables and look no further. Debajit has covered you in his blog.

Josh encountered an issue when trying to filter a file by filename in SharePoint. As you need SharePoint file id which can be challenging he explains how to achieve this in his blog post.

🔨 Tools & Components

Florian Krönert explains how to create beautiful emails using his XRM-OSS templating language.

A control that implements cytoscape.js network graph library. Cytoscape.js is a highly configurable and flexible library for visualizing network graphs.

🎮 All Tech

In this blog post Benedikt will describe how it is possible to enable an additional language in your CDS environment from a Azure DevOps Pipeline.

The most common use case to export CDS data to an external database is to have more control over the data (without going through API route) with the ability to run analytics. Nishant shows us what are the various ways of doing that.

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Oscar | #ProCodeNoCodeUnite | #PoPCC @oappdev

If you set it to true, in the AllowEmptySelection property. You'll start the dropdown without a selection. #PowerAppsTip🔖✅ https://t.co/owE2pAF4yL

🤩 Thanks for reading

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