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Category: Authentication
Power Apps Portals – No Anonymous Allowed
December 19, 2019 2 Min.To ReadA question popped up a couple weeks ago about the best way to force everyone to have to login to your Power Apps Portals before getting access to anything. At first I gave a very wrong answer – thankfully MVP Nick Doelman corrected me, and in the process, we all learned another thing about licensing.
Power Apps Portals: Customizing Portal User Registration Process with Azure AD B2C
November 28, 2019 3 Min.To ReadIn the summer when I did a series of posts on one way of customizing the registration process for Portal users, Dileep Singh (@rulesrchanged) – the head of Power Apps Portals at Microsoft – reminded everyone not to forget about how you can customize the registration experience if you’re using Azure AD B2C. In this post, I’ll go through the steps to do just that.
Power Apps Portals: External Authentication with Azure AD B2C
November 22, 2019 4 Min.To ReadAzure AD B2C is Microsoft’s preferred identity provider for Power Apps Portals. In this post, I’ll provide an overview of the technology, why it’s Microsoft’s preferred identity provider, and a few tips on how to set it up.
Power Apps Portals: External Authentication
November 14, 2019 3 Min.To ReadLast time I gave an overview of authentication with Power Apps Portals, and I mentioned that external authentication is the way to go. In this post I dive a bit deeper into external authentication.
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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.
