Power Platform Developers Weekly – Issue #8

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Past weekend, TDG Community hosted a global Hackathon and winners are: ANZ, IND, EMEA. Today is MBAS day, so don’t forget join. Microsoft Build 2020 is scheduled May 19, get yourself registered soon.

I have released PCF Builder Visual Studio Code Extension, so if you aren’t a fan of PCF Builder tool in XrmToolbox then you may want to try this extension.

Common Data Service

When “required” field validation is not client-side only anymore | It Ain’t Boring — www.itaintboring.com

When working with the model-driven applications, we can make a field required, but, normally, that would not make any difference for server-side processing.

Development of custom Html/JS Webresources with help of modern frameworks – Andrew Butenko’s Blog — butenko.pro

Create custom dialog using modern client scripting framework like React and Office UI Fabric

PowerApps & Power Automate

iPhone style slide gesture for navigation – Hardit Bhatia — thepoweraddict.com

Perform a slide gesture on phone for navigation

Monitoring the Power Platform: Canvas Driven Apps – Auditing and Activity Logs Part 1 — community.dynamics.com
Information from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Support team (PFE) working directly with customers using Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.

Working with O365 Groups, DL’s and Security Groups in Power Automate — www.bythedevs.com
In this #PowerShot, I will show you how to retrieve members from an Office 365 Group or a Distribution List or a Security Group using the Graph API in Power Automate.

PowerApps Component Framework (PCF)

PCF: Caching – Dianamics Power — dianabirkelbach.wordpress.com

In this post Diana explains how to use Caching while developing PCF Controls

PCF Preview Image | Dynamics Ninja — dynamicsninja.blog

This time the topic is preview image that is most of the time first impression about the control when we see it in the controls tab.

Tools & Components

Using GitHub Actions to automate Power Apps Component Framework builds and releases. — github.com
Using GitHub Actions to automate Power Apps Component Framework builds and releases. – rajyraman/pcf-actions-starter

Main Form Dialog | PCF Gallery — pcf.gallery
A control that uses the Main Form Dialog (or navigateTo) feature within Model Apps to open an Account main form.

Videos