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Category: Entity List
Power Pages: Is AI the End of Lists and Forms?
November 27, 2025 4 Min.To ReadLast month I was fortunate enough to travel to Las Vegas for the Power Platform Community Conference, and of course the main topic of conversation was AI. When it comes to Power Pages specifically, the question of how vibe coding might be embraced by makers and how that would impact the product moving forward was a recurring theme. In this blog post, I’ll share my thoughts on what I think these new tools mean for those of us who work with Power Pages on a regular basis.
Power Pages: Calendar Click Event – Updated!
October 27, 2025 2 Min.To ReadIt’s always nice when people reach out to say that one of my blog posts was helpful. I also love it when people tell me how a blog post inspired them to come up with an even better solution. This happened recently when one of my colleagues at Engineered Code was working on a project that involved using the calendar functionality of Lists, and needed to customize the click event.
Power Pages: Form Label Best Practices
January 28, 2025 3 Min.To ReadOne 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: Calendar Click Event
August 15, 2024 5 Min.To ReadRecently there was a comment on Power Pages Tip #222 – List Calendar Styles on our YouTube channel – they were asking about adding a click event handler to events being displayed on a list that is using the calendar functionality. In this post, I’ll show you one way of doing that.
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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.
