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
Category: PowerApp Portals
Power Pages: Set up OKTA as an identity provider
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!
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
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
