Forward Forever News - Issue #1
Welcome to our first ever newsletter issue!🥳 We're aiming to publish a monthly collection of the latest Power Platform related content from FF team members, as well as selected highlights from the global #PowerPlatform community.
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Latest posts on FF blog
Help! How do I restore Dataverse records I accidentally deleted?
What you should know when using Power Platform environment backups to recover data that has been deleted from your production database.
Power Apps and marking vacations
"This was the last time I will be doing these manually. Before the summer vacations, there has to be a more meaningful way to get these steps done." This was the start of a vacation app, which ended up as an additional feature in our hour reporting app.
Creating a heat map in Power Apps
How to visualize risks (probability, likelihood) and their effects (impact) in a matrix with color gradient, using Power Apps Canvas app and Power Fx.
FF team members' personal blogs
Power Platform licensing, November 2021 updates
Updates to Power Apps licensing model from Ignite 2021 (Nov), including the pay-as-you-go model for apps and capacity.
Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Creating Invoice Attachments With Power Automate – Part I
Creating invoice attachments has never been a very easy or straightforward task with the native tools available on Power Platform. Antti Pajunen explores the current possibilities of Power Automate.
Find contact’s LinkedIn profile with Power Fx & custom command bar button
Adding a low-code button for the contact form in Power Apps Model-driven app to search for a matching LinkedIn profile.
Best of Power Platform community
PowerDocu: Generate technical documentation from your existing Power Automate Flows
FlowDocumenter for automatically creating a Word document containing your flow connectors, triggers, actions + a diagram of the flow logic.
Side Panes & Custom Pages – Implement a Shopping Cart in MDA
Diana Birkelbach explores the new side panes in model-driven apps and builds an impressive demo Model-driven app that includes Canvas custom pages, too.
Power Automate Flow API Updates - 16 Takeaways
Jerry Weinstock lists 16 takeaways from the updated docs article – Request limits and allocations, as well as the latest Power Automate licensing guide version.
Forward Forever news
Olá Portugal!
Team FF has grown to double digits in size and we're now present in two European countries: Finland and Portugal. Welcome on board, Tiago Neves!
Join us? Looking for new Data Advisors
Forward Forever is looking for a talented, learning hungry Data Advisor to join our ambitious, fast-paced team.
Catch us in these events
Dataverse Summit 18.-20.11.2021
Dataverse Summit 2021 is just around the corner and kick off on November 18th! Antti Pajunen will be presenting on the topic of Dataverse and governance on Friday, Nov 19th, together with Chris Huntingford.
Power Platform Virtual Happy Hour November: State of the Union
Watch a recording of Jukka Niiranen and 4 other Microsoft MVPs talk about the current state and future direction of Power Platform.
Microsoft 365 HPR 30.11.2021
Microsoft 365 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the biggest Microsoft 365 focused conference in Finland. The next one is in November and Timo Pertilä will be talking about Power Platform best practices (in Finnish).