Power Platform Community Call – October 2022

Power Platform Community Call – October 2022

Call summary

Latest updates and news on Power Platform including community events, training opportunities and the Monthly Community Tip. Three demos delivered – Dataverse Dataflows as a sync mechanism, Power Automate and Microsoft Teams approvals advanced scenarios, and Power Pages General Availability. Connect to other makers in your organization via chatbot, now in public preview - aka.ms/makermatch. Monthly Community Tip - Handle duplicate property names in JSON objects in Power Automate - George Doubinski | @georgedude. This call was hosted by David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII and recorded on October 19, 2022. Questions addressed in chat throughout the call.

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Demo summaries

  • Dataverse Dataflows as a sync mechanism – Power Apps Dataverse Dataflows – a Power Platform tool used to connect to services and get information to Dataverse. Learn about connectivity to services, ETL capabilities using Power Query, accessing multiple data sources from one solution, and using a merge query to sync data without duplicates. See creating a Dataflow, taking information from SharePoint, transforming and mapping it, and inserting it in a Dataflows table.
  • Power Automate and Microsoft Teams approvals advanced scenarios – approval workflows access user and approval status information stored in Dataverse tables. Learn about 5 key tables and what happens in tables when approval tasks are created, completed, reassigned and cancelled. Step through using custom actions to accomplish approval scenarios (manual/automated task reassignment and approval completion after 80% of assignees approve) that cannot be accomplished with out-of-the box approval functionality today.
  • Power Pages General Availability – tour of the latest UI and functionality of Power Pages (low code solution for fusion teams). Since the Preview release, there have been many updates including the new – Design Studio with 4 Workspaces: Pages (wysiwyg previews, role-based permissions, add/edit pages/sections/components), Styling (themes, fonts, colors, custom CSS), Data (work in Dataverse from workspace), and Setup (add custom domain, CDN, go live checklist, progressive web applications).

Agenda items

  • Latest Power Apps Samples – April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam – 1:39
  • Latest updates and news on Power Platform - David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII – 5:15
  • Monthly Community Tip – Get notified before you run out of Office 365 storage space! - Todd Baginski - (Canviz) | @toddbaginski – 8:37
  • Demo - Dataverse Dataflows as a sync mechanism – Eickhel Mendoza (Intelequia Technologies) | @eickhel – 12:15
  • Demo - Power Automate and Microsoft Teams approvals advanced scenarios – Tomasz Poszytek | @TomaszPoszytek – 28:00
  • Demo - Power Pages General Availability – Hugo Bernier (Microsoft) | @bernierh – 44:06

Together mode

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Everybody is looking amazing today. Thank you for being the best part of our community.

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Demo references

Request to present a demo during this call - aka.ms/PPCCDemoRequest

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