Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #51

🥇 Cover Story

Elaiza shows us a nice intuitive way of creating a Microsoft Teams meeting from Dataverse. This opens up so many possibility for integration with MS Teams.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this blog post, you will learn how to handle hotfixes in Dataverse. We will look at different approaches to hotfixes.

Custom Actions are one of the most useful methods of creating custom messages in Dynamics 365 CRM. This post explains how to use Custom API that is similar to custom actions.

Mark (the master of TDS) shows us the new changes to TDS endpoint this time w.r.t. time zone.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article Matt will teach you how to build a Power Apps Component with an OnSelect property you can load with your own custom code.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In this blog, we will explore how we can retrieve Dataverse table metadata using Power Automate.

Learn how you can trigger one flow from multiple SharePoint lists from this post. It's easier as you may think.

Here's how you can workaround and get the Dynamics 365 CRM Duration field value which shows in Days to extract into Hours and Mins in another field.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

This is Phil's first blog and he chose a very tough topic. Nicely written blog that explains how you can make your custom connector independent of endpoint.

In continuation to Power 2021 blog series, in this post you will learn how to change the colour of navigation header in Power Apps Portal?

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

In this post Dima is gonna share with you some cool html tags and attributes.

In this post, Nitin introduce you to 10 NPM packages that you should check out if you're learning React or already are an experienced user.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Close Canvas App window using PCF button - Md. Hameed Hussain

Opening Attachments from Power Apps instead of having to download - Warren Belz

How to use executionContext.setSharedVariable and executionContext.getSharedVariable - Temmy Raharjo

Creating a Business Process Flow for multiple entities - Alex Shlega

Power Automate – Infer the Flow Run URL - David Rivard

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

It has been a difficult week this week on the XrmToolCast with Jonas suffering a stroke. Daryl has invited some of Jonas' fellow co-workers and MVPs to talk about what happened, how Jonas is doing now, and how we, the community, can support him.

Our own guest editor for this newsletter - Carl Cookson is on The MVP Show. He chats about his journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP and his passion for XrmToolBox and how did it start.

🐤 Tweets of the week

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