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Power Pages: Mysterious Disappearing Lookup Value When Using Custom JavaScript

May 28, 2025 3 Min.To Read

The out-of-the-box user experience of the Lookup control in Power Pages works fine in many situations, but it is not uncommon on a project to want to change it up using some custom JavaScript. Recently, this was the case for us when a client wanted custom related record filtering. However, we ran into a strange issue where, when saving the form, instead of it setting the value correctly, the column was being cleared in Dataverse. In this post, I’ll get into the details of what was going on.

Power Pages: Form Label Best Practices

January 28, 2025 3 Min.To Read

One of the fundamental features of Power Pages is the ability to create or edit Dataverse data via Forms. The layout of a Power Pages Forms is defined using Dataverse table forms, which are the same as those used in model-driven Power Apps. Part of that layout includes the labels for the fields of the form. In this post we’ll look at the various options Power Pages provides to customize those field labels.

Power Pages: Unprecedented Times for Long-Time Customers

April 3, 2024 4 Min.To Read

With the release of documentation describing the migration from the Standard Data Model to the Enhanced Data Model, we’ve entered some unprecedented times for organizations that have been using Power Pages for a long time. For the first time since Microsoft acquired the product, a significant upgrade of the website will be necessary at some point in the future to transition to both Bootstrap v5 and the Enhanced Data Model.

Power Pages: Adding a Custom Form Modal to List Action Buttons

December 8, 2023 6 Min.To Read

Recently 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.

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