Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #82

🥇 Cover Story

Matt was contacted by Damien Bird and they talked about a requirement for addressing software in Power Apps with a focus around OnKeyPress for the best possible user experience.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this post, Alex shows a quick way of testing your JavaScript without the usual “save > publish > refresh” route.

using the new multi-panel in Side Panes we can not only create and open multiple panels at once but also view different types of pages like entity record, entity list (view), HTML web resource, custom page, and dashboard.

Nishant reviews the new solution explorer functionalities in this post.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Filter a data source in the canvas app based on the value of the Choice field value.

With Power Apps form modes we can use a single form to create a new record, edit an existing record or view a record.

Create a canvas app that easily translates to a different language based on the dropdown value by easily translating the labels.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In this #PowerShot, Yash will show you how to fix the issue when you are working with special characters and diacritical marks for different languages on Adaptive Cards in Outlook with Power Automate.

Alex shows us how to deal with child flows and enable retry if they fail in Power Automate.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

Scott enlighten us on how to resolve an error when using code components in canvas apps.

Don’t worry, the HTML web resources for model-driven are not deprecated. Diana just doesn’t believe that she will ever make new ones again. 

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

This tip is brought to you by Parth Bhaidani on dual-write and 404 error when metadata contains special characters.

In this post, you will learn how to create business logic to export the solutions based on the solution description.

Scott in this post explains how to use Power Platform CLI to swap out the old code component and replace it with the new version.

🔨 Tools & Components

Mark showcases how XrmToolBox developers can enable integration with SQL 4 CDS tool.

Learn how you can use deployment profiles in Portal CLI to deploy environment specific variables

⛅ Around Azure

Debajit explorers Azure and shows us how to execute PowerShell from Azure functions.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

When your Power Automate flow history run would not stop spinning - Alex Shlega

Delete the current (active) partition in Audit - Nishant Rana

Use Hierarchy in Roll Up Fields in Dynamics 365 - Priyesh Wagh

Using File and Image Data Type in Dataverse - Nishant Rana

Canvas App – Quick Reference - Nishant Rana

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

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💖 GitHub Sponsors

Thanks to the following people for being the sponsors:

🥈 Silver - David Wade

🏆 Platinum - AgileXRM

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