Power Pages has a lot of great features to build powerful websites that are directly connected to business data in Microsoft Dataverse. Makers can build web pages with static content as well as data connected components such as lists and forms that are based on model-driven Power Apps forms and views. To further extend your… Continue reading Power Pages single-page apps: Create a “Hello World!” website
Category: Authentication
Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!
Have you heard of AI agents? 🤣 Agents are now popping up everywhere and Power Pages is no exception. The ability to create a site agent that can answer questions based on your site content has been available for a while. A new feature (in preview) has been announced where you can start with a… Continue reading Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!
Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables
Currently rolling out to is the ability to configure Power Pages site settings as environment variables. Why is this such a big deal? In Power Pages configuration, much of the Power Pages website configuration is stored in metadata records called site settings. In many cases, these site settings are unique to specific environments, for example,… Continue reading Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables
Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID
When building a Power Pages website where you will have external stakeholders signing in, it is highly recommended to use an external authentication provider and not the out-of-the-box forms based login and password. There are different external providers available, provided by Microsoft (Azure AD B2C) and other 3rd party providers (like OKTA). Currently in preview,… Continue reading Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID
Power Pages – solution management tips, tricks, and gotchas
One of the main driving features of using the enhanced data model for Power Pages is the ability to add a website to a Power Platform solution and transport to other environments. This makes building and configuring Power Pages and ALM management much more aligned to the rest of the Power Platform. Solutions: For those… Continue reading Power Pages – solution management tips, tricks, and gotchas
Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central to Power Pages
In early November I had the opportunity to present a session Using Power Pages as a gateway to Business Central at the Directions EMEA 2024 conference in Vienna, Austria. I was pleasantly surprised to see the session was very well attended and there was a lot of interest from Dynamics 365 Business Central professionals and… Continue reading Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central to Power Pages
Power Pages: Onboarding external identity users
Using local authentication in Power Pages is not recommended. There are a number of available alternate or external providers available (such as Azure AD B2C) or you can configured other providers such as OKTA (as I outlined in Power Pages: Set up OKTA as an identity provider) Note that Azure AD B2C is NOT being renamed… Continue reading Power Pages: Onboarding external identity users
Power Pages: Set up OKTA as an identity provider
If you have configured a Power Pages website, chances are that you will require external users to sign in to be able to access certain information. Things like their own support cases, invoices, etc. Along with page permissions, table permission, web roles, you also will need to decide and configure and identity provider to be… Continue reading Power Pages: Set up OKTA as an identity provider
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