From the Power Platform Blogs: Developer environments; Create a topic; Full resolution images; Dataverse connector feature

In this week’s Microsoft Power Platform blog roundup:

• Developer environments: how to create on behalf
• Create a topic with Power Virtual Agent Copilot
• Get full resolution images in your Power Pages Lists
• Cloud flow Dataverse connector: connect to other environments (preview)

Power Platform developer environments: how to create on behalf

On his blog, Rajeev Pentyala pointed out that if you're an admin you can create a developer environment for another users. He noted that you can use the "create on behalf" toggle, then provide the ID of the user for whom you're going to set up the development environment.  

In his blog post, Pentyala explained the significance of the create on behalf option, saying it was helpful when your tenant settings restrict who can create and manage the developer environments.

Pentyala also provided a link to an earlier post he wrote where you and learn about the Power Apps developer plan and developer environment.

Create a topic with Power Virtual Agent Copilot

Writing on his Power Addict Ben blog, Ben den Blanken noted that with news of the European release just around the corner, he wanted to share his new series with readers.

Create your own Human Resource Copilot for your employees. Unburden your HR staff but also important, let employees engage in a manner of their choosing!

In his series, den Blanken explained that he also wanted to talk about all the cool things you can do with the generative AI technology that's included in Power Virtual Agent for building a chatbot with a prompt as well as consuming it. He also stated that he wanted to discuss neat new features now possible with the new authoring experience.

He noted that he was going to begin his series by laying some groundwork and creating a topic to request a day off. In his blog post, den Blanken demonstrated how you can create your topic using a prompt to the Power Virtual Agent Copilot.

Get full resolution images in your Power Pages Lists

Writing on his blog, Franco Musso explained that his blog post originated from a request by a user who asked for help on LinkedIn. The poster assumed that due to some unknown CSS issue, the images in their list were only displaying at 144px x 144px –  too small as well as cropped to a square and blurry.