Power Pages: Uploading BIG attachments!

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 FX in Power Pages

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: conditional display, site markers, and Liquid filters

Using Liquid in Power Pages allows you to create code to conditionally display both static and dynamic content based on certain conditions. A very simple example of this would be this piece of Liquid code that you can place in the source of a web page, web template, or a content snippet: The above code… Continue reading Power Pages: conditional display, site markers, and Liquid filters

Power Pages: convert standard to enhanced data model

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

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

Online payments in Power Pages

One of the features of Adxstudio portals long before it evolved into Power Pages is that it had an out of the box payment gateway integration with Authorize.net and PayPal. This provided a way to configure a webform (the grandfather of multistep forms) to allow users to pay for goods and services. It required the… Continue reading Online payments in Power Pages

Using Dataverse low-code plug-ins with Power Pages

One of the features currently in preview that I am #superexcited about is Dataverse low-code plug-ins. What are Dataverse low-code plug-ins? They allow you to build server-side business logic specifically for Dataverse. More of a video person? Here is the YouTube version of this blog post: Plug-ins are not new technology. In the early versions… Continue reading Using Dataverse low-code plug-ins with Power Pages

Power Pages in a day walkthrough

One of the number one questions I get is “how do I getting started with Power Pages”? Of course, being a trainer that delivers Power Pages training, I would normally say to attend one of my classes or one of my sessions. 🙂 However, everyone’s learning style, requirements, and budget differ. Thankfully there is a… Continue reading Power Pages in a day walkthrough

DocuSign integration with Power Pages

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!

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!