Overview The European Power Platform Conference was held in Dublin, Ireland from June 20-23, 2023. The conference brought together the Microsoft Power Platform Communities for 3 days of in-person learning, connections, and inspiration. The conference provided a host of professional development opportunities, which included 3 inspirational keynotes, 6 expert full day tutorials and 90+ specialist… Continue reading European Power Platform Conference 2023 Recap
Category: Power Pages
Use Power Platform pipelines with Power Pages
Power Platform Pipelines are a great solution for simple ALM to move your Power Platform solutions from a developer to testing, staging, and production environments. Check out the official documentation on Power Platform pipelines. A few weeks ago I wrote post and video about the new ability (in preview) to add Power Pages websites to… Continue reading Use Power Platform pipelines with Power Pages
Trigger Power Automate flows from Power Pages
At MS Build last week everyone was all “Copilot this and Copilot that…” and the were other announcements that I feel are going to be also very impactful. One of these is the ability to trigger a Power Automate flow from Power Pages and get the results back to that page. I tried this out… Continue reading Trigger Power Automate flows from Power Pages
Use Web Templates as components
While Power Pages provides a variety of components to display data from Dataverse using lists, forms, and even from embedded Power BI reports. There are times when you would want to expand these further and build custom layouts. This is where you can build custom web templates to achieve your unique requirements. Using web templates… Continue reading Use Web Templates as components
Use Dataverse virtual tables in Power Pages sites
A common question I have gotten over the years is if it is possible to build a Power Pages that can surface and interact with data that is stored in a different database than Microsoft Dataverse, such as Azure SQL or other databases. Using a different database for Power Pages was not only difficult, but… Continue reading Use Dataverse virtual tables in Power Pages sites
Using solutions to move Power Pages site configuration
Moving Power Pages (and Power Apps portals) site configuration from a one environment to another used to be a bit of a tedious process. While there were handy tools like the XrmToolBox portal records mover, Power Platform CLI, or the Configuration Data Migration tool, it was always an extra step to move website configuration. Now,… Continue reading Using solutions to move Power Pages site configuration
Using Content Snippets in Power Pages
One feature of Power Pages that doesn’t get a lot of attention is Content Snippets. What is a content snippet? Its really just a piece of text or HTML that you can inject into headers, footers, page copy, or in web templates. You can even include Liquid or JavaScript code in content snippets. A couple… Continue reading Using Content Snippets in Power Pages
Using calculated columns in Power Pages
Form and list components in Power Pages are based on model-driven Power App forms and views, which of course are connected natively to Microsoft Dataverse. While it’s very easy to create tables, columns (fields), forms, and views in the Power Pages data workspace, for new (and even established) makers, understanding how the overall data model… Continue reading Using calculated columns in Power Pages
Create a Power Pages webpage completely from within Visual Studio Code
Last week Microsoft released a series of new enhancements to the Power Platform tools for Visual Studio Code that will allow you to create web templates, page templates, web files, content snippets, and web pages. Read the official documentation here. Here is a video where I use Visual Studio Code to create a web page… Continue reading Create a Power Pages webpage completely from within Visual Studio Code
Demystifying forms in Power Pages
One of the key features of Power Pages is to allow users to interact directly with information stored in Microsoft Dataverse. Makers can easily create web pages with list and form components to allow site visitors to be able to create, read, update or even delete Dataverse records. However, sometimes new users get a bit… Continue reading Demystifying forms in Power Pages
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