#30DaysOfFusion (✅ Completed)

[juliamuiruri4]

#30DaysOfFusion Open Discussion forum

Welcome to our Discussion forum
Feel free to:

• Introduce yourself (Would be lovely to know you and where you are from)
• Ask any question
• Provide ANY feedback you have (on the program, your experience, your challenges, provided learning resources) on this thread:
• Update us on your learning progress

Happy learning!
~ Cheers!

[rafaelcdelgado]

What is this about???

[juliamuiruri4]

Hi, this is about an upcoming connector hackathon program. See details here: https://aka.ms/TheConnectorHackathon

[leestott]

@rafaelcdelgado all the resources are at https://microsoft.github.io/30daysof/docs/roadmaps/fusion

[evansmbithi]

Glad to be here!

[juliamuiruri4]

Welcome @evansmbithi ! I hope you are progressing on well.

[giftahmed]

Nice

[juliamuiruri4]

Welcome @giftahmed ! How is your progress so far?

[juliamuiruri4]

Welcome Announcement!

Hello everyone! We are super thrilled to have you join us.
Today, Sept 12th, is Day One of an amazing learning journey for you. Please join us for the Official Kickoff session at 6:30PM EAT (UTC + 1) to hear what this program entails.
Direct link to join the call

See Website

Looking forward to seeing you all
~ Cheers!

[ronohoscar]

Excited to be part of the journey.

[juliamuiruri4]

Summary - Day 1 Summary: https://microsoft.github.io/30daysof/blog

Hi everyone!
Thank you for joining the Official Kick-Off Session. In case you missed it, here is the recording, please take a few minutes to catch up.
Kickoff recording: https://stdntpartners-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/julia_muiruri_studentambassadors_com/EVeY7Q6nt6JHn-XA42_EbMQBL75p2Wh1oot2V7Wa6yPI3g?e=A5tzxM

The Connector Hackathon - Launch Deck.pdf

Gear Up! Join the Challenge! See you Wednesday!
~ Cheers!

[kelcho-spense]

Happy to be part of this

[johnmuchiriM]

Looking forward to this!

[juliamuiruri4]

Happy to have you both onboard
@kelcho-spense & @johnmuchiriM

How is your progress so far?

[johnmuchiriM]

[Yusadem131]

Hello, are we to join a team to build a connector?

[juliamuiruri4]

Great question! You don't have to worry about the teams this week and next week. These first 2 weeks will be heavy on the learning and personal upskill. Then week 3, you choose between either working on a connector alone/solo or in pairs (teams of 2).

Read more on the roadmap: https://microsoft.github.io/30daysof/docs/roadmaps/fusion

Please let me know if this answers your question
~ Cheers!

[juliamuiruri4]

Announcement: Day 3 is with us!! Today we have Our 1st Live session, and we will get to build our very first Connector Live with you!

The session starts at 7PM EAT | 5PM WAT.
Calendar invites sent via email

Direct meeting link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTEyZTY5NDQtOGM0Zi00OGUzLWIxYTEtNDMyYmM3NTQ0OTY2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2272f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2209ebbf50-8a1d-43c7-8fb3-59c3241db950%22%7d

See you all!
~ Cheers!

[juliamuiruri4]

We are 5 minutes away! Catch you all on the call

[Yusadem131]

Please, Can we have the video for re-watch?

[juliamuiruri4]

Thank you for joining the 'Build A Connector Live session' yesterday!

See presentation deck: Build a Connector Live Presentation.pdf

Blog summarizing what we learnt yesterday

[juliamuiruri4]

@Yusadem131 I will be sharing the recording in the course of the day

[juliamuiruri4]

Hello everyone, here is Wednesday's recording on building a connector. We will be doing more on this today as well.

https://youtu.be/E1KRpMrG9Wo

[ManuSquall]

Hello world ! Hope you're doing well! Really happy to take part of it 🥳

[ManuSquall]

Encounter some trouble in module 5 unit 6

At the "Verify Web API Integration on Azure API Management" part, step 3 i'm supposed to have an /api/WarehouseLocations - GET operation but got none :

Does someone face the same issue or did it work like a charm 👀?

[ManuSquall]

Got this error when i try to publish the api:

[juliamuiruri4]

Hello, thanks for sharing this here.
Will have a closer look into this in the evening. Do we have any other participants who want to chime in on this?

[shadrackkiprotich]

Hi @ManuSquall were you able to find the solution to this? if not, I worked on this module and it worked perfectly, perhaps you might check the startup.cs file where you added
The swagger code.
Ensure it's correctly placed.

[ManuSquall]

Hello @shadrackkiprotich! Not yet but i plan to do it again on another computer. I checked twice for the swagger code placement and it was accorded to the module instruction. Now that I know it went well for you it should come from somewhere else on my side. I will get back asap when find it. Thank you for this feedback!

[shadrackkiprotich]

You're welcome. Just check the log errors for a detailed problem
Okay perfect feel free to reach out @ManuSquall

[johnmuchiriM]

I have created apps with flutter and java. I must say Power Apps are so much Fuuun!!😅😅🔥🔥🔥

flow.mp4

[evansmbithi]

@johnmuchiriM I tried to connect office 365 outlook but the following error was persistent:
REST API is not yet supported for this mailbox. This error can occur for sandbox (test) accounts or for accounts that are on a dedicated (on-premise) mail server.

[evansmbithi]

Did you use corporate email to sign in to power apps, or just personal email?

[johnmuchiriM]

Hey, @evansmbithi I used personal mail instead.
on the ✔ icon On select formula
Instead of User().Email, I typed my email, and the final fx code was like this:

Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(
"myemail.@gmail.com",
"New Request: " & TextInput1.Text,
User().FullName & " has requested more inventory for " &
Dropdown1.Selected.Name & " be ordered. There is currently " &
Dropdown1.Selected.InventoryInSquareFeet & " square feet left in stock."
);
Back()

[juliamuiruri4]

@johnmuchiriM - Great seeing your app! 😍

In today's session, we will see how to build a connector, then consume it directly from a Power App. I sent out the calendar invite to everyone for the session

[juliamuiruri4]

@evansmbithi were you guys able to find a resolve to the challenge you were facing?

[evansmbithi]

@juliamuiruri4 Power apps remind me of high school when we built projects in Microsoft Access. Great times!

[juliamuiruri4]

We just started the session. Please join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_M2Y0MzQ0MjItZTc4Ny00OWQyLWFlMDctOTM0NTNmNDAwOTc0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2272f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2209ebbf50-8a1d-43c7-8fb3-59c3241db950%22%7d

[Yusadem131]

I am trying to log in to create the custom connector but It is not accepting my work email.
Moreover, How do I find a built-custom connector on git-hub? I have searched for it and I couldn't find it.

[Yusadem131]

Can we also have the power-point presentation of the two sessions? THANKS.

[juliamuiruri4]

Hi folks, resources for Wednesday's session on building a connector from an openAPI file and consuming it in a Power App.

Connector presentation.pdf
Recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/li84cF9Zsrs
summary blog

[juliamuiruri4]

Hi @Yusadem131
I shared both presentations, recordings and summary blogs. Did you find what you were looking for?

[juliamuiruri4]

I believe this is what you are looking for @Yusadem131? You can find this in the welcome blog: https://microsoft.github.io/30daysof/blog/hello-fusion
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerPlatformConnectors/?WT.mc_id=academic-73999-juliamuiruri

[Yusadem131]

How do we choose a proposal for the custom connnector

[juliamuiruri4]

Great question

You can find this on the blog I shared earlier. So, after we have our session this Thursday on how you can validate your connector before you submit it, you will submit a connector proposal (the idea of the connector you want to work on) and if no one else has submitted it, you go ahead and start building.
I will provide specific instructions on this though before you start on the proposals

[juliamuiruri4]

Announcement!!

Ola!

I trust you all had a fantastic weekend. Week 2 out of Week 4 of The Connector Hackathon is with us 🥳! We learnt so much throughout Week 1, and there is more learning in store for you this week.
So far,

1. You have had a deep dive into what connectors are, what your role is in the Power Platform as a code-first developer and a demo on how to build a connector from scratch.
   Recording: https://youtu.be/E1KRpMrG9Wo
   Summary Blog: https://microsoft.github.io/30daysof/blog/fusion-build-a-connector

2. You have also learnt how to build and consume a custom connector directly from a power app and building a connector from an OpenAPI Spec file.
   Recording: https://youtu.be/li84cF9Zsrs
   Summary Blog: https://microsoft.github.io/30daysof/blog/fusion-build-a-connector-from-OpenAPI-file/?WT.mc_id=academic-73999-juliamuiruri

Today, we introduce you to a Student Ambassador from India, who recently built a connector and is currently on his way to being an Independent Publisher. Join us at 6PM EAT to hear about his experience and see what type of connector he built for some inspiration.

We have shared resources for you to learn exactly what to do to build your connector. This week, we allow you to try to
• build simple connectors (not the hackathon project),
• try adding new actions and triggers,
• try using them from a power app or a power automate
• [Share your progress with us on the discussion page]

And on Thursday, we have a session to show you how you validate your connector before submitting it on GitHub for certification. I already sent the calendar invite to you, should be somewhere in your mailbox.

See you in the evening!

~ Cheers!

[johnmuchiriM]

Awesome. I am looking forward to learning more! Thank you for the recordings!

[juliamuiruri4]

Already started ... Feel free to join in https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_YmEwOGFmOWYtY2ExMi00YmI2LWFiNjQtM2FlZDM5ZjI2OTlk@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%2272f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47%22,%22Oid%22:%2209ebbf50-8a1d-43c7-8fb3-59c3241db950%22%7D

[Kiveshan]

So let's say we chose to build a connector for ADP (or any other options we had from the Top Connector Asks). How would we go about obtaining the API information we require?

[juliamuiruri4]

Good question @Kiveshan
First step in building a connector is to identify an external service WHICH HAS A FREE & PUBLIC API that you would like to build a connector for. We work with public & free APIs because remember at the end of the day, if you submit your connector for certification, users across the world should be able to use it for free and it needs to be accessible to everyone.

That means if the service has a public API, you should be able to find it on the research, along with its documentation to help you understand it and know it better before building the connector.

Again, here is a list of the top connector asks/ services you can build connector for:
Top Connector Asks
A list of Public APIs
Some other commonly used APIs, relatable to African Devs:

• Daraja API
• Pusher
• Termii
• Buycoins
• Twilio API
• Open trivia database API (OTDB)
• Jenga API
• RapidAPI,
• The Movie Database API
• Typecode API
• world weather API
• World Time API
• Blynk IoT API
  (you can confirm if they already have connectors, and if not, knock yourself out)

Cc. @johnmuchiriM

[Kiveshan]

@juliamuiruri4 . Hey guys I've been running into this problem that can't seem to fix . The 'default' response should not have schema definition. Schemas should be defined on expected responses only.
Not too sure why this happens. The only thing I know for sure is that when I remove my responses it validates perfectly

[bernardev254]

Rename the schema eg from default to 200

[kelcho-spense]

Yes I had the same issue so I went to the swagger editor and on the responses key word you will have to rename the this name to 200 which is a response code for 🆗

[Kiveshan]

Thank you, guys. You are lifesavers

[juliamuiruri4]

Final Announcement for everyone!!

Ola!
It has been an amazing and eventful couple of weeks, with a lot of learning involved. I hope you enjoyed every step of it and that you were able to learn and/or build something new. Today is the last day of the program and I first want to congratulate you 🎉for learning something for the first time.

Category 1: If you were not able to build a connector this time round, all the resources we used are available and you can always create a connector at any time and to any service of your choice. This would be a new adventure for you and we are here to support you along the way.

Category 2: Big KUDOS! 🎊 To you that was able to build and submit your connector(s) and I believe that you have already heard back from the certification team on your individual PR and are on your journey to getting your connector published! 🎖️All the best!

Category 3: Congratulations 🥳 if you were able to start working on a connector, but you are YET to submit it.

Important: For your connector to be considered as part of this program and eligible for an award, you MUST submit it before tomorrow noon (Saturday 15th Oct)!! Any submissions that come in after will NOT be considered for any award, but will still go through the same and general certification process.

Lastly: Just as you learnt a lot about connectors this past few weeks, we would also love to learn from you. Click here 👉 We are listening!

Kind Regards,
Connector Hackathon Team!

[juliamuiruri4]

Hi Team!
Just a friendly reminder to all of you - Please take just one minute to give us your overall feedback from this program as we come to a close: https://forms.office.com/r/kmiQR8mLDH

This will be highly appreciated.

[shadrackkiprotich]

Hey guys,

For those who used oauth 2.0 as their authentication how did you define your scope? especially if it is multiple?

[Yusadem131]

@japhletnwamu
I have been able to get the Client's Secret and ID to set up the OAuth for my environment. Kindly assist me in completing the project of submitting the connector. Thanks

[priyanshu870]

Hey @juliamuiruri4
when will the results of hackathon be declared?
And also of cloud skills challenge

[juliamuiruri4]

Just finalizing on a few things @priyanshu870
We'll communicate

[juliamuiruri4]

If you submitted this feedback:
 When I first face the problem of failure to create a solution in Power Automate, I searched for the solution to the error on the Microsoft community platform. Most user said the bug solved itself automatically. So I had to keep trying waited for some 3 hours for it later to work. I guess that can be checked into. It's an intermittent bug.

I would really like to follow up more to see if we can help. Kindly lemme know.

[johnmuchiriM]

Hey @juliamuiruri4,
I guess I submitted this bug. The error comes when you try to create a new Solution to enable sound application lifecycle management practices in a custom connector development on PowerAutomate. The bug occurs when you don't have any existing solution before. I got some feedback from the community to keep trying. The bug was not there after a few hours. After you create a single solution, you'll not face the bug again. The bug only occurs when you don't have a single existing solution.

The screenshots show the solutions tab when you already have an existing solution. Creating a solution works perfectly. Let's try to replicate the bug with an account that does not have a pre-existing solution to check whether the bug still exists. Here is a link to the discussion we had on the Microsoft | Power Automate Community

[Yusadem131]

@juliamuiruri4
I just submitted another pull request for another proposal and this is my connector.

microsoft/PowerPlatformConnectors#2084

[juliamuiruri4]

This is brilliant @Yusadem131
Wishing you all the best!

[Yusadem131]

Thanks, @juliamuiruri4.
Please I am finding it difficult to upload the image for testing on the pull request. The image is saved in my local machine as .png

[juliamuiruri4]

@Yusadem131

Open your PR, then drag your test-image on the comment field then click 'Comment'
Hope this helps?

[juliamuiruri4]

Winners Announcement!! Congratulations!!

@aaryan2134 @Kiveshan @johnmuchiriM @priyanshu870 @ManuSquall @kelcho-spense @Bkaraba

Please find more next steps here: https://microsoft.github.io/30daysof/docs/roadmaps/fusion/#program-summary--next-steps

Big thank you for everyone for investing time to learn something new!

Cheers!

[johnmuchiriM]

@juliamuiruri4 Thanks for the heads up. On it!

[johnmuchiriM]

@juliamuiruri4 Is there a guide to an overview on creating a sample? I will appreciate it.

[aaryan2134]

@juliamuiruri4 Sure. I will have a look once and let you know once when I start working on it
Thank you!

[juliamuiruri4]

Definitely! @johnmuchiriM @aaryan2134 - Here is the guide: https://github.com/pnp/powerapps-samples/wiki/How-to-submit-a-Power-App-sample

[johnmuchiriM]

Thank you!

[Kiveshan]

Wow, didn't expect to see my name there. Thank you guys for this learning experience, definitely looking forward to future events.

[juliamuiruri4]

@Kiveshan & @rishay Sunder - If you are up for an extra step, would love to now see your published connector being used by thousands of low code users across the globe.

For this to be achieved, we'd need to create awareness of your new connector and you can do this by creating a sample/ use case, just to show how customers can take advantage of your connector in their solutions.

You in? If yes, you can create a simple sample and deploy it in our power platform samples

[Kiveshan]

@juliamuiruri4 Hi, will look into it. Also do you know how we can claim our badges?

[juliamuiruri4]

Great. @Kiveshan - I believe this will be helpful: https://github.com/pnp/powerapps-samples/wiki/How-to-submit-a-Power-App-sample
Will get back to you regarding the badges

[juliamuiruri4]

@Kiveshan - the badges will be sent out to everyone who certified their connectors

[Kiveshan]

@juliamuiruri4 Hi , Im really sorry for the late reply to this but have the badges been sent out yet because I don't have it yet

[Yusadem131]

Congratulations to all the Hackathon and cloud skill challenge winners. I am so delighted to be part of this hackathon. I will be happy to participate in future hackathons.

[juliamuiruri4]

And to everyone that submitted a proposal, or are still building connectors, I encourage you to keep creating these connectors as you will be part of a project that may potentially help thousands of customers globally - this will be so strong on your portfolios.

A certification engineer will always be guiding you on what to do next on your PR, and once you are done, please take the extra important step of creating a simple sample and deploy it to our power platform samples

Cc. @Yusadem131 @priyanshu870 @evansmbithi @VitaliiSorokin @ManuSquall @jetsstarplus @Bkaraba @kelcho-spense @RuarkS

[juliamuiruri4]

I believe this will be helpful when you create your samples and how to submit: https://github.com/pnp/powerapps-samples/wiki/How-to-submit-a-Power-App-sample

[aaryan2134]

@juliamuiruri4 Hi! Could we get to know when we would be getting the prizes? Actually also what are the prizes for connector hackathon?😁

[juliamuiruri4]

Hey Aaryan - I already sent out emails to the 7 participants
Regards

[aaryan2134]

Yeah. Got it. Thanks!

[juliamuiruri4]

@priyanshu870 @kelcho-spense @ManuSquall @Kiveshan and Nicholas - please check your emails and respond as soon as you can. Thanks

[juliamuiruri4]

Claim your contributor's badge if you published a connector

Please register on this form if you published a connector to receive your digital badge:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=KtIy2vgLW0SOgZbwvQuRaXDXyCl9DkBHq4A2OG7uLpdUMDZYMzNWUDZLVVFSRzQ2SVpaODU1UVdVTi4u

Recommendation: Add a link to your connector in the GitHub repository, see example:

Cc. @VitaliiSorokin @aaryan2134 @kelcho-spense @Kiveshan @Bkaraba @johnmuchiriM @priyanshu870

[juliamuiruri4]

Power Integrations / Connectors LABs Calls - This is a monthly community event hosted by Jocelyn Panchal to share updates in the connector space and help to answer any questions about the product!

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR0BHMrjhL0hDmckROosW6AFUOUVHNTlRRlAxQUI5S0hJNFdIWkZBRzlaTy4u

Link to post on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jocepan00_fill-power-platform-integration-labs-participant-activity-7016964937537245184-a_Ga?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

[kelcho-spense]

@VitaliiSorokin @aaryan2134 @Kiveshan @Bkaraba @johnmuchiriM @priyanshu870 can you folks re- fill this form above to claim your badges.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=KtIy2vgLW0SOgZbwvQuRaXDXyCl9DkBHq4A2OG7uLpdUMDZYMzNWUDZLVVFSRzQ2SVpaODU1UVdVTi4u

[johnmuchiriM]

Done!

[Kiveshan]

Done

[aaryan2134]

Done

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[juliamuiruri4]

New Blog for Configuring OAuth 2.0

Hi All!
Feedback that was shared by most of us that were/are working with APIs that used OAuth 2.0 authentication, was that we didn't have enough beginner friendly resources to guide users on how to configure authentication.

We now have a blog that tries to address this feedback: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/configuring-oauth-2-0-authentication-for-microsoft-power/ba-p/3722647

Please let us know if this material will be useful and if we have any important information missing - Thanks!

[johnmuchiriM]

The article provides an in-depth look at the concepts of Authentication and API testing. I would like to recommend an emphasis of the use of default values in operations by the developers, as it can streamline testing by eliminating the need to input values for each field every time you want to test. After building the connector, you may opt to keep or discard these default values, which can save time and enhance the testing process' efficiency. Well done, @juliamuiruri4 and team, for creating a well-written and informative piece.

[juliamuiruri4]

Thank you @johnmuchiriM for your feedback - QQ. I'd like to confirm whether by 'default values' you are referring to those that get filled when you import from postman collection? Is that accurate?

[johnmuchiriM]

Hi @juliamuiruri4,
After importing from Postman, when configuring operations in your connector, you have the option to input default values to the input fields. This can be useful when testing the operations as it eliminates the need to constantly fill in fields, unless you want to test with different values. This way, you can spend more time debugging and checking for errors.