Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #126

🥇 Cover Story

Debajit shares his experience with the Dataverse dependent assembies for Plug-ins - new official way to merge all the necessary DLL(s) into a single DLL.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Here's a recommended way to lock the fields on the form in Dynamics 365

In this post, we will explore various Power FX commands we can add using new command designer: We will cover the formulas “Navigate”,” URL” and "Notify".

How Power Fx formula columns in Dataverse handle nulls gracefully unlike calculated fields.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

This post is all about error handling in Power Apps with Azure Application Insight. Logging all events in your app (wanted and unwanted).

Another PowerHack by Kristine - how you can quickly add charts to your Power Apps and custom pages without the need to use Power BI or the out-of-the-box charts!

A workaround in Combo Boxes dealing with large lists and the Delegation issues surrounding these.

😎 Power Automate

Here's how you can select an element from an array based on certain condition in Power Automate Flow.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

A fantastic cheat sheet by Dani with all the standard column types including some custom components from the PCF gallery that are particularly useful!

Read this post to know how you can convert a dropdown into a autocomplete control in Power Pages.

In this blog, Amit uncovers the Design Studio of Power App Pages.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Add Show/Hide visibility rule using Power Fx to a Command button using the new Command designer - Deepesh

Adding N:N Relationships in Sub-grids correctly in Dynamics 365 CRM - Priyesh Wagh

Power Apps Hack To Style All Form Controls In Seconds - Matthew Devaney

How to – Use Script Component to Upload files to File Column / Attribute in SSIS – KingswaySoft (Dynamics 365 / CRM) – Nishant Rana's Weblog

How to select a control in a specific row of the gallery- power apps canvas apps - Debajit Dutta

Access elements from Array variable in Power Automate - Priyesh Wagh

How to build a swipe-right component in Power Apps - Luise Freese

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Natraj Yegnaraman @RajYRaman

Quick tip: If you are trying out AppInsights with Dataverse, limit your daily ingestion so that you don't get a surprise bill. Once you get an idea of the projected monthly costs, increase the limit. #PowerApps https://t.co/Eg1x0FR6uc

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo

📢New (Preview) Collaboration controls enable you to easily add M365 capabilities to your Power Apps model-driven apps to simplify user workflows when collaborating on business processes in Teams or Power Apps. https://t.co/j7hUk3ejIg #PowerPlatform #PowerApps #Microsoft365 https://t.co/ydBt9kRTSG

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