Category: Portals

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

Power Pages Actions in Visual Studio Code

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Two years ago I posted about the features within Visual Studio Code to create assets in Power Pages. Since that time the team at Microsoft has added more features to allow developers to be more productive when extending Power Pages websites using HTML, JavaScript, Liquid, CSS, etc. To be effective using Visual Studio Code, this… Continue reading Power Pages Actions in Visual Studio Code

Power Pages: Inserting Content Snippets in Design Studio

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I have written before Content snippets in Power Pages and how it is one of those features that I feel doesn’t get enough attention. Here is the video version of this blog post. Check out the post below on what Connect Snippets are and how they used in Power Pages websites: Currently, the only way… Continue reading Power Pages: Inserting Content Snippets in Design Studio

Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables

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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 Pages: Set up OKTA as an identity provider

Posted in Authentication, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, OKTA, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals, Security1 Comment

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

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

Power FX in Power Pages

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The Microsoft team keeps adding new features and functionality to Power Pages. Just announced, the ability to use Power FX in Power Pages! See official announcement here: Use Power Fx in Power Pages for authoring dynamic content See documentation here: Use Power Fx in Power Pages (preview) Check out a short video of where I… Continue reading Power FX in Power Pages