Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
Power Apps connectors allow you to connect your app to external services like SharePoint, Microsoft 365, or custom APIs. When you build a Power App, you can use these connectors to read and write data from these services. For instance, you can get a list of items from a SharePoint list, create a new item in a SharePoint list, etc.
Read moreEarlier this year, I was asked if it was possible to test Power Apps with Playwright. My answer was that it should be possible, as it is still a web application that gets created. Over the last few months, I have been working on and testing a project where I used Playwright to test a solution created in Power Apps.
Read moreA couple of months ago, I found a way to end-to-end test your solutions, which require you to log in on Microsoft with multifactor authentication enabled. The solution is to use a time-based one-time password (TOTP) that you can generate on the fly during your automated tests. info You can read more about the approach in the automating Microsoft 365 login with multi-factor authentication in Playwright tests article.
Read moreWhen deploying Node.js-based Azure Functions using GitHub Actions, you might face an issue with the Windows workflow. In the latest template, there is an issue in the build step where the actions/upload-artifact action fails to upload the artifact due to too many files. The problem is caused by the node_modules folder, which contains many files (even for a starter Azure Function project).
Read moreIn August 2024, GitHub announced it would exclude hidden files by default in the actions/upload-artifact GitHub Action. If you are using this action in your workflow, you should be aware of this change, as it might break your workflow. info Read more about it on the notice of upcoming deprecations and breaking changes in GitHub Actions runners blog post from GitHub.
Read moreIn the last weeks, I have been moving the Front Matter CMS documentation and APIs to different hosting providers. The documentation and APIs were hosted on Vercel, but they stopped their open-source program, which made me look for alternatives. I decided to move the documentation to Netlify and the APIs to Azure.
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