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
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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
Inject content into Power Apps portals form components
Sometimes even the most simple requests can balloon in extra configuration to meet the client’s vision. One of the most common uses of a Power Apps portal is to collect some information using a form. Adding a form component to a portal page is a very simple exercise. You create the model-driven form in the… Continue reading Inject content into Power Apps portals form components
Building a Multi-Brand Dynamics 365 Portal
Overview Sometimes a specific program, product or sub-brand of an organization may require a unique Portal. Provisioning and buying separate Portal subscriptions may potentially be overkill for the particular requirement. The following post describes a method where different branded sections of a portal can be configured using one Portal instance. Multi-Brand Portals I have been… Continue reading Building a Multi-Brand Dynamics 365 Portal
Show Calendar and Maps on Dynamics 365 Online Portals
Summary Dynamics 365 Portal Entity List Controls can be configured to render as a Calendar or Map Control These special controls will not render correctly when the Page Template is linked to a Web Template. A Page Template using “Re-write” mode is required for controls to appear correctly. September 2020 Update: Here is a post… Continue reading Show Calendar and Maps on Dynamics 365 Online Portals
Dynamics 365 Portals – Overcoming Entity List Roadblocks with HTML and Liquid
Summary Entity Lists are an easily configurable way to show list data on a Dynamics 365 Portal, but lack a couple of key features; Entity Lists do not have the ability to drill down to different records from the view. Cannot dynamically show/hide columns or highlight fields. Sorting requires fields to be displayed on Entity… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Portals – Overcoming Entity List Roadblocks with HTML and Liquid
Show two Entity Lists on a Dynamics 365 Portal Page
The other day I needed to create a Dynamics 365 Portal page showing 2 entity lists. Anyone who has worked with the Dynamics 365 Portal knows that you can simply define an entity list on the web page record which will render that entity list on your portal. That works great, but what if you… Continue reading Show two Entity Lists on a Dynamics 365 Portal Page
XrmToolBox: Portal Code Editor Overview and Review
Before we dive into today’s topic, I want to thank everyone who attended my “Portal Developer Primer” webinar on March 30th. My apologies to those of you who tried to attend on March 28th, thankfully we were able to sort out the technical diffuculties. The recording can be found by clicking here. Without further delay,… Continue reading XrmToolBox: Portal Code Editor Overview and Review
Liquid Part 3 – Displaying a List of Dynamics 365 Records
Just a heads up that I will be presenting a webinar for the XRM Virtual User Group on March 28, 2017 called “Portal Developer Primer”. This session is focused for the Dynamics 365/CRM developer who needs to start getting ramped up on Portal development. It is an evolution from my session at ExtremeCRM in Newport… Continue reading Liquid Part 3 – Displaying a List of Dynamics 365 Records
More Liquid Markup in Dynamics 365 Retrieving Entity Record Data (Part 2)
Before we dive into today’s tutorial, today Adoxio (the consulting arm of the old Adxstudio) released Adoxio Connect Framework to allow seamless integration to other platforms. Something I will be definitely checking out. Retrieving Dynamics 365 Data with Liquid In Part 1 we looked at a very basic Web Template using Liquid. One of the great… Continue reading More Liquid Markup in Dynamics 365 Retrieving Entity Record Data (Part 2)
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