Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #77

🥇 Cover Story

Dharanidharan explores the functionality to build a custom connector that will allow you to retrieve flow run history. Very cool!

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Microsoft recently introduced us to the Custom API feature which is a new way of creating custom actions. Now, what is the possibility of using it in a classic workflow? Check it out.

In this post, we will learn how to create a Custom API to get a file from File DataType in CRM.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article, Matt will show you how to display a user photo in Power Apps or the user's initials in a colored circle when a photo is unavailable

Have you ever wanted to send only some of the attachments on your record via email to someone? The solution is actually quite straightforward, check it out.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In this post, Linn shows us the functionality to create a SharePoint Document Location for an entity using cloud flows.

Dineshkumar found a problem when trying to access a file in SharePoint which he was able to resolve. In this post, he shares the resolution for that error.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

This blog is all about some issues, limitations & recommendations for Dataflows seen as of writing this blog.

Access Team Templates are a feature that we may not always use within Microsoft Dataverse but could cause us some pain when we do. Joe shows us the remedy using Azure DevOps.

🔨 Tools & Components

Mark just released SQL 4 CDS 5.2.2! Upgrade today for a bunch of useful updates, fixes, and improvements.

The new all-in-one tool for Dataverse received few updates. Download it today and check out the new features.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Enable Model-Driven In-App Notifications with Power Automate - David Rivard

Count records for all tables in Dataverse - George Doubinski

Trouble Shoot insufficient Permission Message - Mira Ghaly

Use of new column options settings in grid view page - Inogic

Hunting for that elusive dependency - Alex Shlega

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Daryl and Scott interview Danish Naglekar, fellow MVP and a previous guest, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse DevTools for VsCode.  Other topics: Building VsCode Extensions, The PCF Builder, Bearer Tokens.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Zak Laughton 👨‍💻 React.js, TypeScript, Svelte.js @ZakLaughton

@BergmannBene @DanzMaverick @SirKto @sveltejs • https://t.co/XDJups394P and https://t.co/1FUZUhMNTb have good docs, examples, and tutorials • https://t.co/o6CuFJOvPt has great tutorials for getting started & a animation • I made this thread while learning svelte to help anyone curious about it: https://t.co/hEVhiqcEkr

💖 GitHub Sponsors

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