PPDevWeekly 200th Newsletter Post – Interview & Celebration – YouTube
We the PPDevWeekly team got together to celebrate 200th newsletter post milestone. Each of the authors were asked a questions that provided behind-the-scene work that goes into curating the newsletter each week. Newsletter Link: https://www.ppdevweekly.com/ Connect with the team: Danish N. – https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar/ Carl C. – https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcookson/ Anwesha S. –...
Ep.15: Daryl LaBar on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video we chat with Daryl LaBar about his tool “Early Bound Generator v2”, his journey in Power Platform and how he came up with idea for this tool and some interesting insights into how his suggestion broke XrmToolBox. 📖 Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:44 – Guest Talk 09:37 – Presentation 38:03 – Final words on the tool 38:59 – New updates to XrmToolBox for Devs 42:09 –...
Ep.14: Sriram Balaji on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video, we chat with Sriram Balaji about his multiple custom GPT-4 plugins, his journey in Power Platform, and why he ventured into building custom GPT-4 plugins. 📖 Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:57 – Guest Talk 12:44 – Presentation 47:21 – Closing dialog ✅ Connect with Sriram Balaji: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srirambalaji GitHub: https://github.com/srirambalajigit YouTube:...
Ep.13: Andrew Butenko on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video, we chat with Andrew Butenko about his tool “ABDialog v2”, his journey in Power Platform, and how he came up with the idea for this tool. 📖 Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:44 – Guest Talk 06:58 – Presentation 30:19 – Final words on the tool 🔥 Link to the tool “AB Dialog v2”: GitHub: https://github.com/AndrewButenko/ABDialogsV2 ✅ Connect with Andrew: LinkedIn:...
Ep.12: Erik Donker on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video, we chat with Erik Donker about his tool “PrettifyMyWebApi”, his journey in Power Platform, and how he came up with the idea for this tool. 📖 Table of Contents: 00:00 – Introduction 00:33 – Guest Talk 12:08 – Presentation 29:37 – Final words on the tool 🔥 Link to the tool “PrettifyMyWebApi”: Chrome Extension:...
Change flow owner without CLI or PowerShell
Let’s say you had a co-worker who left the company but they owned a few flows. How do you switch them over to a working account? If you are a maker who is not comfortable with PowerShell or Power Platform CLI and wants a way to change the owner of the Flow then follow the below steps. First, go to the solution that has cloud flow and locate the flow in question. As shown in the above… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Chat GPT – PCF Control – YouTube
This video shows a demo of “Chat GPT” PCF Control that enables you to interact with Chat GPT right inside the Power Apps. Also shows how to configure the control in Model-driven app. Link to GitHub project: https://github.com/Power-Maverick/PCF-Controls/tree/master/ChatGPTControl This tool was created using PCF Builder for VSCode & XrmToolBox. PCF Builder John Thibodeau () – version 2.2021.2.52 I’m regret...
Creating Dataverse Plugin Package – YouTube
In this episode, we will create a new plugin project using the Power Platform CLI command, then we will add a reference to an external package called Newtonsoft.Json. Later, we will register the plugin as a package in Dataverse. We will also learn how to update the plugin package. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Intro 00:31 – Plugin project init 02:33 – Explain plugin project 06:31 – Add external library 07:22...
Azure Functions with Dataverse Managed Identity – YouTube
In this episode, we will build an Azure Function that will connect to Dataverse using Managed Identity. We will also take a look at how we can easily deploy Azure Functions using a Bicep file. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Intro 00:19 – Setup 11:14 – Bicep to deploy AzFunc 14:27 – Deploy code to AzFunc 17:33 – Create App User in Dataverse 21:55 – Use DV Client in code 28:06 – Testing locally ?...
Write Unit Test for your Dataverse Plugins – YouTube
In this episode, we will learn how to write unit test cases for your Dataverse plugins using FakeXrmEasy. We will run into issues and see how you can utilize debugging for your unit tests and fix them. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Introduction 00:34 – Recap from the previous video 00:50 – Start Unit Test Project 23:50 – Run & Debug the Unit Tests 28:16 – Closing Comments ? Useful Links : Tools for...
Resolved: Issue with deployment when Custom API was removed
Custom API is a great feature added to Dataverse. It gives you many flexibilities and can create complex JSON requests or response messages. In order to learn how you can make complex JSON messages; check out this post. Now the issue at hand is we created a Custom API in our Dev instance and associated a plugin to it. Since then we had deployed the components to higher environments as a… Continue Reading Danish’s Article...
Register & Debug a Dataverse Plugin – YouTube
In this episode, we will first look into how to register a plugin in Dataverse and associate it with an event; this will be followed by learning how to debug a plugin locally and finally adding traces (or logs) to the plugin so it is easier to identify issues on production. ? Useful Links : Tools for Power Platform Developers: https://youtu.be/1NrfmDuF9Ec ? GitHub Page: https://github.com/Power-Maverick/Power-Tips/tree/main/Ep-04-05 ?...
Start with plugin development – YouTube
In this episode, we will look at setting up a plugin project and writing a simple plugin. ? Useful Links : Jonas Rapp’s Canary Tracer: https://github.com/rappen/RappCanary365/blob/master/Plugin/CanaryTracer.cs My version of Plugin Base: https://github.com/Power-Maverick/Power-Tips/blob/main/Ep-04/PowerTips.Plugins/PowerTips.Plugins.Training/PluginBase.cs ? GitHub Page: https://github.com/Power-Maverick/Power-Tips/tree/main/Ep-04...
Ep.11: Morten Holt on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video, we chat with Morten Holt about his tool “PCF Reloader Transformation”, his journey in Power Platform, and how he came up with the idea for this tool. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:45 – Guest Talk 07:54 – Presentation 34:46 – Final words on the tool 36:48 – Info to connect with Guest ? Link to the tool “PCF Reloader Transformation”: GitHub:...
Setup your computer for success – YouTube
In this episode, we will look at the ways to configure your computer so that you can effortlessly do you day-to-day work like a PRO. I will reveal some of my secrets that helps me work efficiently. ? Useful Links : Stream Deck: https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck ? GitHub Page: https://github.com/Power-Maverick/Power-Tips/tree/main/Ep-03 ? Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/PowerMaverick?sub_confirmation=1 ⏩...
Dataverse DevTools – Jan 2022 Release
New Icons New and improved icons were added that provide more context. For example, if you have connected to an environment on a folder/workspace then it will show a green Dataverse icon and the environments not connected on the current folder/workspace will be shown as red. The same goes for Web Resource files. The ones that are linked with local files will show as green and the rest will… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Tools for Power Platform Developers – YouTube
In this episode, we will look at all the tools we need as a Power Platform Developer. We will understand the download process for some of them. We will also learn the basics of those tools. ? Links used in the video: SDK Download Link: https://xrm.tools/SDK Guide to Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/data-platform/tools/devtools-install?WT.mc_id=BA-MVP-5003877 XrmToolBox...
Becoming a Power Platform Developer – YouTube
In this episode, we will look at the basics of starting with Power Platform. We will understand the different URLs and their purpose. Later, we will learn how to create our own free Power Apps Developer environment. ? Links used in the video: Markers Portal: https://make.powerapps.com/ Admin Portal: https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ Power Platform Developer Plan: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/developerplan/ ? Table of...
Ep.10: Guido Preite on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video, we chat with Guido Preite about his tool “Dataverse REST Builder”, his journey in Power Platform, and how he came up with the idea for this tool. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:53 – Guest Talk 13:23 – Presentation 55:29 – Final words on the tool 59:41 – Info to connect with Guest ? Link to the tool “Dataverse REST Builder”: GitHub:...
Ep.09: Arpit Shirvastava on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video, we chat with Arpit Shrivastava about his tool “Power App Portal Build Tools”, his journey in Power Platform, and how he came up with the idea for this tool. Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:43 – Guest Talk 15:27 – Presentation 56:02 – Final words on the tool 56:52 – Info to connect with Guest ? Link to the tool “Power Apps Portal Build Tools”: Visual Studio...
TypeScript for Dataverse Mentoring – Day 4 – YouTube
This day 4 video is part of a 4-day mentoring session that was conducted in Nov 2021 on TypeScript for Dataverse. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Start 00:18 – Intro 00:46 – Dataverse API 17:53 – External API – Using Fetch 24:52 – Fetch vs Axios 28:04 – External API – Using Axios 35:46 – Generics 38:21 – Debugging using Fiddler 46:36 – Questions ? Subscribe for more...
TypeScript for Dataverse Mentoring – Day 3 – YouTube
This day 3 video is part of a 4-day mentoring session that was conducted in Nov 2021 on TypeScript for Dataverse. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Start 00:18 – Intro 00:46 – Session Agenda 01:47 – Interfaces 13:04 – Modules 26:07 – Classes 32:49 – Use of any 37:23 – Arrays 42:19 – Tuples 46:55 – Enums 52:16 – Code-Review 56:04 – Demo 57:40 – Questions ?...
TypeScript for Dataverse Mentoring – Day 2 – YouTube
This day 2 video is part of a 4-day mentoring session that was conducted in Nov 2021 on TypeScript for Dataverse. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Start 00:18 – Intro 00:47 – Previous Session Questions 08:34 – Session Agenda 09:43 – Write code for plain TS project 35:29 – Write code for webpack TS project 50:01 – Questions ? Subscribe for more videos:...
TypeScript for Dataverse Mentoring – Day 1 – YouTube
This day 1 video is part of a 4-day mentoring session that was conducted in Nov 2021 on TypeScript for Dataverse. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Start 00:24 – Intro 00:47 – Session Agenda 01:37 – TypeScript Overview 09:36 – Dataverse DevTools Overview 13:11 – Walkthrough of VS Code 27:02 – Walkthrough of Dataverse DevTools 33:25 – TypeScript Project 39:08 – Difference plain TS vs...
Dataverse Custom API that supports complex JSON schema
When the new Custom API component was introduced it made a lot of people happy, but the initial reaction was short-lived when I assumed that objects need to be linked to an entity in Dataverse – which kind of makes it a single-level JSON schema. But what if we want to have nested objects and how do we make that happen. I brought this as a discussion item on the Power Platform LEVEL UP… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Identifying security loop-holes in Power Apps Portals
Recently, Microsoft Power Apps Portals were in the news about the data breach due to missing a configuration in the Portals. Now, to set things straight this was not a hack but a breach due to misconfiguration of the system by the customer. When you use any product; there are several settings and as a configurators you should first give undivided attention towards the security aspect of the… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Ep.08: Florian Kroenert on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video, we chat with Florian Kroenert about his tool “Power Kanban”, his journey in Power Platform, and how he came up with the idea for this tool. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:42 – Guest Talk 19:03 – Presentation 1:20:42 – Final words on the tool 1:21:48 – Info to connect with Guest ? Link to the tool “Power Kanban”: GitHub:...
Attach Signed DocuSign document to a note in Dataverse using Power Automate cloud flow
Background I had a requirement where I wanted to fetch the signed document from DocuSign and add it as an attachment on the notes table for that contact in Dataverse. I knew DocuSign had the connectors support for cloud flows so obviously dived into it. Problem The structure of the flow was pretty straightforward as shown below: First Flow Version When the document is signed the… Continue Reading Danish’s Article on their...
Bypass Consent when user opens a canvas apps
I wanted to write about this for a while but never got around it. So here it is… Background Now-a-days we are building lots and lots of canvas apps for group of users. We create a security group and share the canvas app with that security group. We add users those security group which allows them to access the canvas apps. All good!! But, when users access these canvas apps they get this… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Ep.07: Temmy Raharjo on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video we chat with Temmy Raharjo about how to implement Azure Cache for Redis, his journey in Power Platform and how he keeps exploring new technologies and tools. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:53 – Guest Talk 17:24 – Presentation 46:42 – Final words on the tool 49:33 – Info to connect with Guest ✅ Temmy on Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/temmy-wahyu-raharjo/...
Ep.06: Shaminder Singh on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video we chat with Shaminder Singh about his tool “Portal Controls Packager Solution”, his passion in Fitness & Calisthenics, his journey in Power Platform and how he came up with idea for this tools. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:41 – Guest Talk 04:41 – What is Calisthenics? 07:27 – Journey of Shaminder in Power Platform 11:44 – Presentation of the tool 36:26 –...
Render Actionable Adaptive card in Outlook for recipients outside of your domain
In my last post, I mentioned how you can hide the cards and show a regular body if the rendering of the card failed or if the device did not support Actionable Adaptive cards. The rendering of Adaptive cards usually fails when you are sending emails to someone outside your domain. In this post, I am gonna show you how you can enable Actionable Adaptive card to be able to render on the… Continue Reading Danish’s Article on...
Ep.05: Oleksandr Olashyn on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video we chat with Oleksandr Olashyn about his tool “Portal Helper VS Code Extension”, his passion for dancing, journey in Power Platform to become Microsoft MVP and how he came up with idea for his tool. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:54 – Guest Talk 10:19 – Tool Presentation 36:06 – Final words on the tool 36:33 – Info to connect with Guest ? Link to the tool...
Ep.04: Mohsin Mirza on The DevConnect Show (Part 2) – YouTube
In this video Mohsin Mirza demonstrates how to build resilient integration using Polly and Simmy. This is part one of two (2/2). ? Part 1 – https://youtu.be/R39aj6g5Q1E ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:41 – Presentation 40:36 – Final words 40:52 – Info to connect with Guest ? More on various resilience strategies: https://mohsinonxrm.com/2021/03/15/polly-and-simmy-with-dynamics-365/ ? Link to...
Ep.03: Mohsin Mirza on The DevConnect Show (Part 1) – YouTube
In this video we chat with Mohsin Mirza about building resilient integration using Polly & Simmy, how he came to know about these packages, his journey in Power Platform, and Formula 1 racing. This is part one of two (1/2). ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Guest Intro 00:51 – Guest Talk 18:03 – Info to connect with the Guest ? More on various resilience strategies:...
Announcing winner of #PCF book – YouTube
In this live stream video I will announce the winner of a physical copy of my book on #PCF for the contest held last week. Along with that I will also select 7 lucky winners who will attend my live stream to win a free digital copy of the book. All the attendees will get a discount code for a digital copy. To win free digital copy ? https://forms.office.com/r/7RZwn8wZKM ? Subscribe for more videos:...
Ep.02: Omar Zaarour on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video we chat with Omar Zaarour about his tool “Power Portal WebAPI Helper”, his journey in Power Platform and how he came up with the idea for this tool. ? Table of Contents: 00:00 – Episode Intro 00:05 – Special Announcement 00:25 – Guest Intro 01:08 – Guest Talk 09:09 – Tool Presentation 32:44 – Final words on the tool 33:37 – Info to connect with the Guest 33:48 –...
Ep.01: Natraj Yegnaraman on The DevConnect Show – YouTube
In this video we chat with Natraj Yegnaraman about his tool “Dataverse Driver for LINQPad”, his journey in Power Platform and how he comes up with ideas for the tools. ✅ Natraj on Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natrajyegnaraman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RajYRaman GitHub: https://github.com/rajyraman ? Subscribe for more videos: Power Maverick I am a Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform...
Show/Hide Actionable Adaptive card data based on Outlook rendering
Ever ran into issue where your actionable adaptive card that you created using Adaptive Card Designer works on your domain but when you send emails to users outside of your domain the actionable adaptive cards do not load? The main reason for this is for actionable adaptive cards to work outside of your domain you need to register your adaptive card using the following link. This is to avoid… Continue Reading Danish’s...
PCF Builder Feb 2021 Released
There were some suggestions and improvements asked on the tool that made me work on those and release a new version of PCF Builder for XrmToolBox. Download PCF Builder from XrmToolBox This time focus was on improving the experience with Microsoft Dataverse solution creation and deployment. Support for Publisher Friendly and Unique Name This was requested by William Bittle on… Continue Reading Danish’s Article on their blog...
PVA: Let chatbot start the conversation
In past we have seen how we can embed chatbots on a Power Apps portals or a web page using client-side code and custom styling. We also looked at how to add a chatbot on a WordPress site but all of these bots were created where the chatbot did not initiate the conversation but instead will wait for the users to initiate the conversation. This quickly becomes awkward for the users as they are… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Efficiently use SVG animations in canvas apps
I was looking at easy way to create animations in canvas apps; as I have seen so many community members have been creating beautiful apps using animations. But I didn’t want to spend too much time animating but deliver quick value to the users by building something that not only gets the job done but also looks good. I had seen some post which were focused on just one svg images but none… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Changing the owner of Canvas Apps & Flows
Your colleague created a Canvas Apps and bunch of Power Automate Flows; but then he/she left the organization without sharing the canvas app and flows. Even though you are a system admin you find out that you do not have rights to edit or share the canvas apps and flows owned by your colleague who left. Or if you were using ALM process using Power Platform Build Tools in Azure DevOps and the… Continue Reading Danish’s...
Timezone Converter – PCF Control – YouTube
This video shows a demo of “Timezone Converter” PCF Control that displays maximum three different timezone clocks compared to users timezone setting. Table of Contents: 00:00 – Demo 01:22 – Configuration Link to GitHub project: https://github.com/Power-Maverick/PCF-Controls/tree/master/TimezoneConverterControl This tool was created using PCF Builder for VSCode & XrmToolBox....
3 ways to create custom connectors – YouTube
In this video, I will walk you through 3 ways to create your custom connectors. First will create a custom connector from scratch, second using Postman Collection and last will be using Open API file. Table of Contents: 00:00 – Introduction 00:41 – Overview 02:54 – Custom Connector from Scratch 14:41 – Custom Connector using Postman 22:24 – Custom Connector using Open API file Subscribe for more Dynamics...
Inline Text Editor – PCF Control – YouTube
This video shows a demo of “Inline Text Editor” PCF Control that takes in HTML content and renders it on the UI with some parts with editable text field. Also shows how to configure the control on Canvas App. Link to GitHub project: https://github.com/Power-Maverick/PCF-Controls/tree/master/InlineTextInput This tool was created using PCF Builder for VSCode & XrmToolBox....
Add Chat Bot on WordPress site
In my previous post I have explained how to style you chat bot when adding it on custom website or portals. But I always wondered can I add chat bot on a WordPress site, and I was able to find the answer to that question. So, let us see how we can achieve that. In this post I am only showing how to add bot to a WordPress site. To understand the styling refer to my previous post. Before we… Continue Reading Danish’s Article...
Making Canvas Apps solution aware
In this blog, we are going to look at two methods to make an existing Canvas App solution-aware. But before we start let us briefly cover what does “solution-aware” means? When you create your app directly from the App section on make.powerapps.com they get created outside of a solution. To deploy them from one instance to another you will have to export it from canvas apps details page. Now,… Continue Reading...
Power Platform Build Tools Connection
It has been couple of months since the official release of Power Platform Build Tools. It is a necessary tool to automate your build and release cycles. This saves so much time from manual deployments. If you had preview version of Build Tools, then make sure to download the non-preview version. Download Power Platform Build Tools from Marketplace. If you haven’t read Alex Shelga‘s 3… Continue Reading Danish’s...