The other day I was reading the Microsoft Docs site when I came across an entry on embedding Canvas Power Apps. It is well known that you can embed Canvas Power Apps in Power BI Dashboards, Model-Driven App forms and Microsoft Teams. The docs article also mentioned that you can embed Canvas-based Power Apps in… Continue reading Embedding a Canvas App in a Power Apps Portal
Tag: Portals
Adding a Power Virtual Agent to a Power Apps Portal
There were a lot of cool announcements at Microsoft Ignite this past week. Notably was the official renaming of Microsoft Flow to Power Automate, PowerApps becoming Power (wait for it) Apps (with a space) and the introduction of UI flows and Power Virtual Agents. Power Virtual Agents are actually another Dynamics 365 feature (Dynamics 365… Continue reading Adding a Power Virtual Agent to a Power Apps Portal
How to Provision a Dynamics 365 Portal the PowerApps Portal Way
A lot of folks with little to no experience with Dynamics 365 have been creating PowerApps Portals on vanilla CDS instances as a way to create externally PowerApps. What isn’t well known that PowerApps Portals evolved from Dynamics 365 Online Portals and before that, Adxstudio Portals. If you still want to deploy an actual Dynamics… Continue reading How to Provision a Dynamics 365 Portal the PowerApps Portal Way
How to Revert Back to a Blank PowerApps Portal
If you have been learning and experimenting with PowerApps Portals, eventually it might soon look like a Dog’s Breakfast. You may have added pages, links, lists, forms and you really would rather start over from scratch on fresh new portal. However, you can only provision one portal per CDS environment! Of course, one option would… Continue reading How to Revert Back to a Blank PowerApps Portal
PowerApps Portals: How to Hide or Show Content based on Logged in User
For those just starting out configuring PowerApps Portals, the question will eventually come up as to how to show or hide content based on the logged in user. For example, if you are showing a page with registration to a private event or showing user specific data like support cases or invoices. You will want… Continue reading PowerApps Portals: How to Hide or Show Content based on Logged in User
Overview of the PowerApps Portals Management App
When you deploy a PowerApps Portal on your CDS environment, you will notice that a model-driven app called “Portal Management” is also created as part of the provisioning process. This app also appeared when you provisioned a Dynamics 365 Portal. With the new Portal maker experience, you can create web pages, entity lists, entity forms… Continue reading Overview of the PowerApps Portals Management App
PowerApp External Stakeholder Access? Introducing PowerApp Portals
The Microsoft Power Platform Release Wave 2 Plan was released today and while it’s jammed packed with many new features that will be released in the coming months, one of the features that I am excited about is the arrival of PowerApp Portals. A highly requested feature from Microsoft was the ability to provide the… Continue reading PowerApp External Stakeholder Access? Introducing PowerApp Portals
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
New Dynamics 365 Portal Features
Summary Two of the October release features for Dynamics 365 Portals are now generally available; Manage SharePoint Documents Power BI Integration The New Portal Editor is now in a public preview. Details on configuring these features can be found at the Microsoft Docs site: Manage SharePoint Documents Set Up Power BI Integration Manage SharePoint Documents… Continue reading New Dynamics 365 Portal Features
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