Power Platform Community Call – January 2023
Call summary
Latest updates and news on Power Platform including community events, training opportunities and the Monthly Community Tip.
Three demos delivered – Building a Name Pronunciation Database with Power Apps and Power Automate, Mention a bot from a Power Automate flow, and Effortlessly showing grids of data in your Power Apps using the Creator Kit.
This call was hosted by David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII and recorded on January 18, 2022. Questions addressed in chat throughout the call.
New this month
- Power Platform Samples
- PDF Reader Creator Kit - Angelo Gulisano | @angelog1908
- News, Shows and Events
- New Episodes - The Low Code Revolution Show with April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam | aka.ms/LowCodeRevolutionShow
- Powerful Devs 2023 conference – February 15, 9am PT - aka.ms/PowerfulDevsConf2023
- It’s Low Code February! Join un on January 31, 2023, as we kick off the Low Code journey - aka.ms/lowcode-february
- ACT NOW – save 30% on tickets until January 24th for the European Power Platform Conference – Dublin, 20-23 June – use code: HugoRocks30
- Upcoming Community Days Events - aka.ms/communitydays
- M365 Twin Cities (US), Saturday, January 21, 2023 - Register
- aMS Sophia Antipolis (France), February 7, 2023 - Register
- WorkplaceDudes Summit (Netherlands), February 24, 2023 - Register
- Microsoft Power Platform Connectors: 924! – Build new or improve existing Independent Publisher Connector – visit our wiki!, Communicate with Jocelyn Panchal | @JocelynP_PM || linkedin.com/in/jocepan00/
- Community Calls Conversations – continue the conversation - chat about demos anytime. See links to chat pages in demo details.
Demo summaries
- Building a Name Pronunciation Database with Power Apps and Power Automate – embrace global diversity with this solution. A Power App with a Power Automate flow sitting on a SharePoint page and a document library. See the app in action – recording name and pronouns, listing to the recording, then going behind UI to see the Power App elements used. Step through capturing and transferring 3 variables from Power App into flow actions. Sample available.
- Mention a bot from a Power Automate flow – see how to mention a bot in a flow from Teams. Use these building blocks – Power Virtual Agent, Microsoft List, Microsoft Team and channel, and a Power Automate cloud flow that triggers on a key word (#FAQ) and posts a message with a bot mention. @mention bot from Teams Channel. Flow monitors the channel. The Power Virtual Agent is published to Teams as an app.
- Effortlessly showing grids of data in your Power Apps using the Creator Kit – that’s basically, a Fluent UI style set of controls. In this demo, see specifically how to show data in tabular format using a control and template from the kit. An alternative to galleries - the DetailsList control is a responsive, Fluent styled control optimized for grids of data. Create table, add columns, import data, display, sort, tab, resize, etc.
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
02:06 – Latest Power Apps Samples – April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
05:37 – Power Platform Community Shows & Events - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam & David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII
10:15 – Independent Publisher Connectors - Jocelyn Panchal (Microsoft) | @JocelynP_PM
12:21 – Together mode picture
13:30 – Demo - Building a Name Pronunciation Database with Power Apps and Power Automate – Lindsay Shelton | @LShelton_Tech | aka.ms/Jan18-Demo1
26:33 – Demo - Mention a bot from a Power Automate flow – Dennis Goedegebuure | @expiscornovus | aka.ms/Jan18-Demo2
39:51– Demo - Effortlessly showing grids of data in your Power Apps using the Creator Kit – Scott Durow | @ScottDurow | aka.ms/Jan18-Demo3
1:00:50 – Closing
Together mode
Thank you for sharing your amazing and fantastic faces. You are what powers our community. Looking forward to an amazing year with all of you.
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Demo references
- Building a Name Pronunciation Database with Power Apps and Power Automate
- YouTube Channel - Daniel Christian
- Article - Building beautiful buttons in Canvas Apps part 1 - neumorphic buttons
- Mention a bot from a Power Automate flow
- Article - Call a Teams Chatbot via a Power Automate Flow
- Documentation - Reply to a message in a channel
- Blog – Expiscornovus
- Samples – List Formatting Samples
- Effortlessly showing grids of data in your Power Apps using the Creator Kit
- Documentation - Creator kit | aka.ms/creatorkit
- Documentation - Install the Creator Kit
- Documentation – DetailsList control
- Playlist – Creator Kit videos | bit.ly/creatorkit-playlist
- Tool – Ribbon Workbench
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