Category: Power Platform

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: Onboarding external identity users

Posted in Authentication, Azure AD B2C, OKTA, Portals, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals1 Comment

Using local authentication in Power Pages is not recommended. There are a number of available alternate or external providers available (such as Azure AD B2C) or you can configured other providers such as OKTA (as I outlined in Power Pages: Set up OKTA as an identity provider) Note that Azure AD B2C is NOT being renamed… Continue reading Power Pages: Onboarding external identity users

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: conditional display, site markers, and Liquid filters

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

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

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

Online payments in Power Pages

Posted in Cloud, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, low-code, Portals, Power App, Power Apps Portals, Power Pages, Power Platform, PowerApp Portals, PowerApps, PowerApps Portals3 Comments

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

Posted in Dataverse, low-code, plug-ins, Portals, Power App, Power Apps Portals, Power FX, Power Pages, Power Platform4 Comments

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

Connecting Microsoft Outlook to model-driven Power Apps

Posted in Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Outlook, Model Driven PowerApps, Power App, Power Platform, Power Platform Admin Center, PowerApps5 Comments

One of the great and long standing features of Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (aka CRM) is the integration with Microsoft Outlook. Using the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook you can synchronize contacts, link meetings and appointments and track emails against records so they will show up in the timeline. What about Power Apps? Did you… Continue reading Connecting Microsoft Outlook to model-driven Power Apps

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!