Welcome to the second edition of PowerPlatformConsultants newsletter.
As you must be busy with the preparations for Christmas, we have gathered all the new announcements, capabilities and features about Microsoft Power Platform, so that you do not have to puzzle over different sites to find your required content.
Latest releases and announcements featured by Microsoft
GitHub connector features for Power Platform
Power Automate Dataflow connector in public preview
Power Automate Desktop December release update
General availability of Power BI dashboard in model-driven apps
Power Apps portals capacity consumption reporting is now available
Introduction of a new prebuilt AI model in AI Builder: Invoice processing, in preview
Microsoft Dataverse support for Power BI Direct Query is now generally available
Configure Azure AD B2C with Power Apps portals in a new way (Preview)
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Case Studies
Norwegian bank delivers streamlined, personalized customer experiences with Dynamics 365
Electrolock simplifies inventory management with Microsoft Power Platform
3 real-world examples of the impact and scale of low-code automation
Power Platform
Power BI
Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary
This article covers all the new updates and features about Power BI that will keep you engaged during the holidays
Quickly create reports in the Power BI service (preview)
New way to quickly create reports without downloading Power BI Desktop.
Quick Tips: Registering SQL Server Profiler as an External Tool in Power BI Desktop
Quick tip by Soheil Bakshi, adding SQL Server profiler as an external tool in Power BI Desktop
Power Apps
Rating Control to represent data from Dataverse in a Canvas Power App | Power Platform
Through this post by Priyesh Wagh, understand how to use rating control to represent data in a Canvas Power Apps.
Power Apps add picture control and save to SharePoint Gallery
This article by Matthew Devaney, shows you how to use Power Apps add picture control and save the image to a SharePoint Library.
Microsoft Dataverse
Introducing Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
Know about Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and changed terminologies through this post.
Dataverse Paging with Distinct
If you’re retrieving data from Dataverse and finding some values that are missing or duplicated, then go through this post by Mark Carrington to find the solution.
Power Automate
This post shows how to get the desired output by using Output() function from Power Automate and parse using Parse JSON function.
Using Power Automate to Generate Dynamic Tabular Data Within Adaptive Cards
Through this post, know more about how Adaptive Cards work in Power Automate.
How to remove duplicate items from an Array in Power Automate
This post by Debajit Dutta shares information about an important functionality of removing duplicates from an array
Videos
Power Apps Dropdown Control – Cascading, Filtering, Allow Empty, Outputs, and more by Shane Young
Power Apps Editable Excel like Table by Reza Dorrani
Power BI Update – December 2020
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