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Category: JavaScript/jQuery
Dynamics 365 Portal: Conditional Action Buttons on Entity Forms and Lists
January 2, 2019 3 Min.To ReadA question was asked on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Community forums about how to hide or show a workflow action button based on the current user’s role, and since there are a few different ways to do this, I thought it was worthy of a blog post.
Dynamics 365 Portal Developers – Don’t Forget About CSS!
November 30, 2018 5 Min.To ReadAs most Dynamics 365 Portal developers start as CRM developers, we often try to take the same approach to solve similar problems on both platforms. However, it’s important to remember that a D365 Portal implementation is using different technologies, and sometimes there is a better way. Case in point – consider using CSS instead of JavaScript to control visibility of out-of-the-box features you don’t want.
Where’s That Dynamics 365 Portals Code? – Part 4
October 16, 2018 3 Min.To ReadIn my last post in the series on all the different places to look for Dynamics 365 Portals code, I discuss our best practices.
Adding SharePoint Integration to the Employee Self-Service Portal Without Server-side Code – Part 3
August 29, 2018 3 Min.To ReadIn my third post in the series on how you can add an integration with SharePoint to the Employee Self-Service Portal in Dynamics 365 without using server-side code, I’ll dive into using the SharePoint REST API to display documents in a folder related to a record in Dynamics 365.
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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.
