Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #37

Happy Thanksgiving to all the US readers.

🥇 Cover Story

Here's how you can send an Adaptive Card for Outlook Actionable Messages and read back Responses and send back confirmation!

👍 Power Platform

Mark dives into presenting the data he loaded in Azure Data Lake in his last post using Power BI.

We have all seen them, Delegation Warnings, but what is delegation and how do you clear your Power Apps from these warnings

🌌 Portal Apps

In this blog post, Ritika will talk about the additional steps that should be taken to populate filter dropdowns in the Power Apps Portal App.

In this blog, we will see how we can create a Web Template with application/jsonMIME Type to get data using FetchXml and how we can retrieve that JSON data through Ajax request in the script

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Alex shows us a way to integrate word template which can download the word file directly from model-driven app.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this two part series Matt will show you how to make a calendar in Power Apps, add events and then display them on the calendar.

Animate your apps using SVGs in a quick and hassle-free way. This blog will show you how easy it is to animate your SVG images.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

There is a strange action in Power Automate which is really not there to do anything other than to help you organize the Flow a little better. Let's take a look.

A few weeks ago, we took a look at Environment Variables and used a pattern within Power Automate that was less than ideal. In this post, we will revisit to find out what was wrong and what is the ideal way.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

When the Fluent UI theme is not enough, we can generate CSS classes using merge-styles.

Ivan shows an amazing deep dive debugging into PCF using source maps.

🔨 Tools & Components

List of little known Content Snippets for Power Apps Portals - by Oleksandr Olashyn

Alex has created one script that will do all the renaming of the name inside a solution.

⛅ Around Azure

Azure Blog Upload Task component can be used to easily transfer files from local drive to Azure Blob storage.

Nishant got an error while trying to transfer files to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy and he explains us the resolution for that error.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Canvas apps:

Debug canvas app using canvas app monitor - Inogic

Perform contain() search in canvas apps - Debajit Dutta

Power Automate:

Create a new group alert using Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra

Tip #1392: Missing entities in Power Automate - George Doubinski

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Matthew Devaney | MVP | #PowerAddicts @mattbdevaney

I think I've finally nailed the process for writing #PowerApps blog articles #1 Make the sample app. Then walk away from it for a day. #2 Skeleton blog post with only section headings #3 Add images & code to sections #4 Write the article now that everything is in place

🤩 Thanks for reading

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