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Month: April 2019
Dynamics 365 Portal: April ‘19 Release Notes Features Now Available!
April 29, 2019 3 Min.To ReadIn a January post I discussed some of the new Dynamics 365 Portal features that were expected as part of the April ’19 release. The exciting news is that these features are now available, so we can take a closer look.
Dynamics 365 Portal: Where to Look When Things Are Slow
April 26, 2019 3 Min.To ReadIt seems to be happening more and more these days that we are being asked to assist organizations that have launched a Dynamics 365 Portal but they are unhappy with the performance. If you find yourself dealing with a portal that is slower than you think it should be, this post should give you an idea of where to start looking.
Dynamics 365 Portal: Header and Footer Output Caching
April 18, 2019 3 Min.To ReadI’ve been spending a lot of time on Dynamics 365 Portal performance recently, and I was able to dig a bit into a topic that I thought was worth sharing: the output caching of the header and footer templates. If that doesn’t catch your attention, how about the fact that it involves donuts?
Dynamics 365 Portal: Custom Server-side Code with a Companion App
April 5, 2019 4 Min.To ReadI spent last week in Amsterdam attending both eXtreme365 and the User Group Summit, and was lucky enough to get to present three sessions on Dynamics 365 Portal topics. At each one of these sessions, one of the areas that generates the most interest is when I discuss the idea of a Companion App. Companion Apps are a technique you can use to leverage server-side code in your Portal implementation, and since it’s a topic I haven’t really covered on my blog, I thought it was about time.
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Power Pages: When to Use (and When Not To)
March 6, 2023 5 Min.To ReadThe growth of Power Pages has been an amazing story. Since being acquired by Microsoft in 2015, the product has gone from a niche add-on for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement to a full-fledged product in the Power Platform. The visibility that comes with getting equal billing to other Power Platform products like Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate means that new people are discovering Power Pages all of the time. However, as with any software product, Power Pages isn’t always a fit, even if your project fall under the category of low code web application development platforms. In this post, I will share what I look for when trying to determine if Power Pages is a fit for a given project.
PowerApps Portals: Liquid and JavaScript – Better Together!
October 31, 2019 4 Min.To ReadPowerApps Portals offers two primary languages for customization: JavaScript and Liquid. This leads to confusion as to which technology should be used when – I’ll try to clear up some of that confusion in this blog post, as well as demonstrate that is many cases, the best option is a combination of the two.
Power Apps Portals: fetchxml Liquid Tag and Entity Permissions
January 16, 2020 3 Min.To ReadThe fetchxml Liquid tag is arguably the most powerful Liquid tag in Power Apps Portals – it allows you to meet complex requirements for the display of data. But, if you combine it with a complex Entity Permissions model, you could find yourself getting unexpected errors. In this post I’ll cover what can cause those errors, and how to work around them.
Power Pages: Adding a Custom Form Modal to List Action Buttons
December 8, 2023 6 Min.To ReadRecently there was a comment on my blog Power Apps Portals: Related Entity as Source of Next Web Form Step about adding a custom Edit button to a list or subgrid. In this case, rather than editing the main row in the table, they wanted to edit a row that was related to the main row. If you want the edit form to pop up in a modal, it requires a bit of JavaScript. In this post, I’ll go through what you need to do in order to achieve this functionality.
