Category: Cloud

Power Pages single-page apps: Create a “Hello World!” website

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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

Five forgotten features of Dataverse

Posted in Azure, Cloud, Common Data Service, Dataflex Pro, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, low-code, Microsoft Outlook, Model Driven PowerApps, Power App, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power Platform, Power Platform Admin Center, PowerApps, PowerBI, SSRS, Visual Studio CodeLeave a comment

If Microsoft Dataverse were a human, they would now be legally old enough to vote, drive, and drink alcohol. The feature is more than just a database, it truly a Common Data Service (it’s previous name) that evolved from the data layer that was part of Dynamics CRM since 2002. Over the years, Dataverse has… Continue reading Five forgotten features of Dataverse

Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!

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There are times when you need to do some work on your Microsoft Dataverse backend that could affect users and visitors to your Power Pages website. Things like a data migration, solution imports, or enabling new features. To ensure your visitors won’t get timeouts or weird error messages, a good practice is the put the… Continue reading Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!

Low-code is Dead. Long live Vibe Coding!

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canvas PowerApps, Cloud, Dataverse, low-code, Model Driven PowerApps, Power App, PowerApps2 Comments

Thank you (and sorry) for indulging my click bait title. 🙂 Also, the following is my own personal opinion, and in no way looking to offend or scare professional developers or low-code makers. Here is the video version of this blog post: There is a new buzzword term making the rounds that you may have… Continue reading Low-code is Dead. Long live Vibe Coding!

Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables

Posted in ALM, Authentication, Cloud, Dataverse, DevOps, Entra External ID, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps PortalsLeave a comment

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: Cache test dummies

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What is Power Pages caching? Sooner or later, while you are configuring a new Power Pages website, you are going to run into the concept of caching. What is it, why does it matter? And why does Nick Hayduk post memes about it? Caching in web applications refers to storing frequently accessed data (such as… Continue reading Power Pages: Cache test dummies

Power Pages – solution management tips, tricks, and gotchas

Posted in ALM, Authentication, Azure AD B2C, Cloud, Copilot, Dataverse, DevOps, Dynamics 365, low-code, OKTA, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps PortalsLeave a comment

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

Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview)

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canvas PowerApps, Cloud, Common Data Service, Configuration, Copilot, Dataverse, Development, Dynamics 365, Flow, Learning, low-code, Model Driven PowerApps, Power App, Power Automate, Power Platform, Power Platform Admin Center, PowerApps1 Comment

Currently rolling out to preview environments is the new Power Platform Plan Designer, a tool that will allow you to use generative AI to describe, plan, and build your business solution using Power Platform technologies. Read the announcement from Microsoft: Build user-focused intelligent solutions in Power Apps, start with a plan. Here is the video… Continue reading Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview)

Power Pages: Uploading BIG attachments!

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One of the weaker features in Power Pages has been the ability to upload large files through a website. Now in preview, the Power Pages team has added a new file upload feature that will users to upload files as large as 10 gigabytes! See the official announcement! Delight your end users with the new… Continue reading Power Pages: Uploading BIG attachments!

Power Pages DevTools extension

Posted in Cloud, Dataverse, liquid, Portals, Portals, Power FX, Power Pages, PowerApps, troubleshooting1 Comment

Microsoft Power Pages allows you to build powerful web applications using a variety of components, tools and development languages. However, building websites using server-side markup languages like Liquid sometimes can be very time consuming to debug and test. I was looking up something else in the Microsoft documentation and stumbled upon a new tool that… Continue reading Power Pages DevTools extension