Tag: Power Pages

Power Pages single-page apps: Create a “Hello World!” website

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Power Pages has a lot of great features to build powerful websites that are directly connected to business data in Microsoft Dataverse. Makers can build web pages with static content as well as data connected components such as lists and forms that are based on model-driven Power Apps forms and views. To further extend your… Continue reading Power Pages single-page apps: Create a “Hello World!” website

Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!

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Have you heard of AI agents? 🤣 Agents are now popping up everywhere and Power Pages is no exception. The ability to create a site agent that can answer questions based on your site content has been available for a while. A new feature (in preview) has been announced where you can start with a… Continue reading Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!

Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!

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There are times when you need to do some work on your Microsoft Dataverse backend that could affect users and visitors to your Power Pages website. Things like a data migration, solution imports, or enabling new features. To ensure your visitors won’t get timeouts or weird error messages, a good practice is the put the… Continue reading Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!

I recreated Dynamics CRM with the Power Platform Plan designer

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In January 2003 after many months of engineering and development, Microsoft released one of the first business solutions built-in house; Microsoft Business Solutions Customer Relationship Management (CRM). This of course evolved into Dynamics CRM, of which much of the technical foundation became Dataverse, the bedrock of the Power Platform. I just rebuilt Dynamics CRM in… Continue reading I recreated Dynamics CRM with the Power Platform Plan designer

Power Pages Actions in Visual Studio Code

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Two years ago I posted about the features within Visual Studio Code to create assets in Power Pages. Since that time the team at Microsoft has added more features to allow developers to be more productive when extending Power Pages websites using HTML, JavaScript, Liquid, CSS, etc. To be effective using Visual Studio Code, this… Continue reading Power Pages Actions in Visual Studio Code

Power Pages: Inserting Content Snippets in Design Studio

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I have written before Content snippets in Power Pages and how it is one of those features that I feel doesn’t get enough attention. Here is the video version of this blog post. Check out the post below on what Connect Snippets are and how they used in Power Pages websites: Currently, the only way… Continue reading Power Pages: Inserting Content Snippets in Design Studio

Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables

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Currently rolling out to is the ability to configure Power Pages site settings as environment variables. Why is this such a big deal? In Power Pages configuration, much of the Power Pages website configuration is stored in metadata records called site settings. In many cases, these site settings are unique to specific environments, for example,… Continue reading Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables

Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID

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When building a Power Pages website where you will have external stakeholders signing in, it is highly recommended to use an external authentication provider and not the out-of-the-box forms based login and password. There are different external providers available, provided by Microsoft (Azure AD B2C) and other 3rd party providers (like OKTA). Currently in preview,… Continue reading Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID

Power Pages: Cache test dummies

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What is Power Pages caching? Sooner or later, while you are configuring a new Power Pages website, you are going to run into the concept of caching. What is it, why does it matter? And why does Nick Hayduk post memes about it? Caching in web applications refers to storing frequently accessed data (such as… Continue reading Power Pages: Cache test dummies

Power Pages – solution management tips, tricks, and gotchas

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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