In early November I had the opportunity to present a session Using Power Pages as a gateway to Business Central at the Directions EMEA 2024 conference in Vienna, Austria. I was pleasantly surprised to see the session was very well attended and there was a lot of interest from Dynamics 365 Business Central professionals and… Continue reading Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central to Power Pages
Tag: Dataverse
Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview)
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: 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: 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
Connecting Microsoft Outlook to model-driven Power Apps
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
Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages: Part 2
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
Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages: Part 1
One of the features of Power Pages is the ability to use a model-driven app Dataverse form as a foundation to build create, edit, and read-only forms on Power Pages websites. This feature goes back to the Adxstudio days where the Adxstudio portal product allowed you to use a Dynamics CRM form and surface it… Continue reading Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages: Part 1
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