Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #136

🥇 Cover Story

Scott has been working on his Dataverse-ify v2 for quite a while and this week he releases it to the public in beta. Please read for the breaking changes if you are using v1.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Looking to coordinate work from your Model-Driven Power App? Set up Dataverse Tasks in your application by following these steps!

Neil talks about the cool enhancements related to the Timeline feature.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this blog post, Sacho will show you how to create and extend the simplest Gantt in Power Apps when making canvas Power Apps.

USE CASE: requirement to show a list of the customers in a Tooltip filtered by the same city where they live.

😎 Power Automate

Here's how you can format data using Examples in Power Automate! Currently in Preview.

One of the announcements which stood out in MSIgnite was the announcement of new Power Automate AI features. Dennis talks about his first try at two of them in a demo tenant.

🌎 Power Pages

Nick explains how Power Pages are much more than Power Apps Portals other than renaming (which Microsoft loves to do from time to time) 😁.

Learn about 3 new things in Power Pages that you might have missed.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

An interesting find and a great walk-through on the resolution steps. Check out what is the purpose of this new isPropertyLoading function in PCF.

Since a few versions, the Power Platform CLI (pac) has had an issue with "pac pcf push". Diana explains how you can resolve this issue with a workaround.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

A company is migrating from Excel to Dataverse. While they are building the Dataflows to move the Excel data sheets to the Dataverse Tables, they want to keep track of all Excel sheets data changes created by the users during the migration. Read this blog from Ahmed to know more.

Here's how you can get started by using Adaptive Cards in Power Apps maker! This is in Preview the day this post was written.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

One of the nicer SharePoint Online building blocks is the People web part. Dennis shows you how can you automate adding people to the web part.

Have you ever had an idea to ask a bot to perform a simple interaction? Then this article is for you

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Setting up Omnichannel Voice using Azure Communication Service - Tricia Sinclair

Advanced Schedule Board Customizations in Dynamics 365 Field Service - Inogic

Environment Variables in Power Apps and Power Automate - Priyesh Wagh

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Danish N. | Microsoft MVP @DanzMaverick

Dataverse DevTools received another update. Added 3 new tools in the toolbox. If you are using the latest "pac cli" version you should be able to launch these tools without running the command. https://t.co/5uV3BzCCpC #PowerApps #Dataverse #PowerPlatform https://t.co/FklM8IwLnS

Natraj Yegnaraman @RajYRaman

Not sure how I missed this. It is possible to prevent cookie replay attacks with this preview feature. https://t.co/6LmzXryUpT #PowerApps

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