Category: Caching

Power Apps Portals: Version 9.1.11.x Release
February 2, 2020 2 Min.To ReadFor the most part I don’t blog about the (roughly) monthly releases for Power Apps Portals, mostly because they deal with bug fixes for relatively obscure issues. However, last month I was happy to see a few items on the list that I’ve been waiting for, and I thought were worth sharing.

Power Apps Portals: Changes to Caching
December 10, 2019 3 Min.To ReadCaching has long been a hot topic when it comes to the Portals technology – so much so that it used in the name of top rated Power Apps Portals podcast “Refresh the Cache” hosted by MVPs Nick Doelman and Colin Vermander. So what is caching, why is it important for Power Apps Portals, and what’s changed about it recently?

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?
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PowerApps Portals: Liquid and JavaScript – Better Together!
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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.