Category: Portals

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!

Posted in Azure, Cloud, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals1 Comment

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

Posted in Dataverse, Dynamics 365, liquid, low-code, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power FX, Power Pages, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps PortalsLeave a comment

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

Power Pages: convert standard to enhanced data model

Posted in Dataverse, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power Platform, Power Platform Admin Center, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals, Visual Studio Code12 Comments

The enhanced data model has now been GA for a while and I know for all my new projects, we are using by default the enhanced data model. However, there are many “legacy” portals still using the standard data. Microsoft has recently (finally) released a tool to migrate the website metadata from a standard to… Continue reading Power Pages: convert standard to enhanced data model

Date and time columns in Dataverse

Posted in Cloud, Configuration, Dataverse, Development, low-code, Model Driven PowerApps, Portals, Portals, Power App, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals, troubleshooting1 Comment

Creating date and time columns (aka fields) in Microsoft Dataverse is a really straightforward process, however, you really should take a pause to make sure you are configuring the right *type* of date and time column. Check out the companion video for this post, where not only will you learn about date and time columns,… Continue reading Date and time columns in Dataverse

DocuSign integration with Power Pages

Posted in Dataverse, Flow, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Automate, Power Pages, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals2 Comments

Update: April 21, 2025 – some users reported an issue on the community forums with an error opening the document. Manju Gurjar found a solution to the problem with a permission issue related to the cloud flow associated with the configuration. From Manju:Here’s what resolved it in my case: This issue is related to permissions/web role… Continue reading DocuSign integration with Power Pages

Copilot for Power Pages Pro-developers!

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Copilot, Dataverse, liquid, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals, Visual Studio Code1 Comment

There seems to be a Copilot popping up everywhere in Microsoft products these days. (I am eagerly waiting for the Notepad Copilot!) The latest Copilot to make an appearance now surfaces in Visual Studio Code (desktop) while editing and configuring a Power Pages website. Writing code for Power Pages has sometimes proven to be a… Continue reading Copilot for Power Pages Pro-developers!

Edit more in Power Pages using Visual Studio Code for the Web

Posted in Cloud, Dataverse, Portals, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals, Visual Studio Code1 Comment

While using Visual Studio Code (desktop) is a powerful way for pro-developers to extend Power Pages websites, sometimes you need to quickly go into a site and edit some code directly without having to launch Visual Studio Code for desktop, use the PAC CLI to download the latest code, make changes, and re-upload. There has… Continue reading Edit more in Power Pages using Visual Studio Code for the Web

Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages: Part 2

Posted in Dataverse, Development, Dynamics 365, liquid, Model Driven PowerApps, Portals, Portals, Power App, Power Apps Portals, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals2 Comments

Last time I showed an example of creating a custom HTML form with the Power Pages WebAPI to create new records in Microsoft Dataverse. This demonstrated a different method of using a fully-customizable HTML form rather than a form component based on a form form a model-driven app. See Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages:… Continue reading Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages: Part 2