One of the main driving features of using the enhanced data model for Power Pages is the ability to add a website to a Power Platform solution and transport to other environments. This makes building and configuring Power Pages and ALM management much more aligned to the rest of the Power Platform. Solutions: For those… Continue reading Power Pages – solution management tips, tricks, and gotchas
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Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central to Power Pages
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
Power Pages: Onboarding external identity users
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
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 Pages DevTools extension
Microsoft Power Pages allows you to build powerful web applications using a variety of components, tools and development languages. However, building websites using server-side markup languages like Liquid sometimes can be very time consuming to debug and test. I was looking up something else in the Microsoft documentation and stumbled upon a new tool that… Continue reading Power Pages DevTools extension
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
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