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Dynamics 365 Portal: 2018 Year in Review
December 20, 2018 3 Min.To Read2018 was a busy year for the Dynamics 365 Portal product! From the end-of-life of Adxstudio v7 to the release of new features like SharePoint and PowerBI integrations, I’ll cover the most exciting developments throughout the year.
Dynamics 365 Portal: Using Liquid to Create Conditional Entity Forms
December 10, 2018 3 Min.To ReadDuring last week’s eXtreme365 event in Austin, Texas, I was lucky enough to co-present a session with Nikita Polyakov (a Senior R&D Solution Architect at Microsoft, with a focus on Dynamics 365 Portal implementations). One of the tips he mentioned during the session was about using Liquid to decide which Entity Form to display on a page – it’s a very cool technique that seems to be underused. Then, a question showed up on the Dynamics 365 Community forums where that technique could be used to solve the problem. So I figured I’d write a quick blog post to get the word out on using Liquid to determine which Entity Form to display on a page.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal: Updates accelerate in the October 2018 release and beyond
October 29, 2018 < 1 Min.To ReadMy latest article for MSDynamicsWorld.com was published today. It talks about the October ’18 release of the Dynamics 365 Portal product, which includes SharePoint and PowerBI integration, as well as some of the other exciting things to look forward to in future releases, including availability within CDS environments, client-side SDK and sandbox licenses.
Where’s That Dynamics 365 Portals Code? – Part 3
October 10, 2018 2 Min.To ReadIn my previous blog post, I talked about looking at the page-specific attributes like Copy, Summary, Custom JavaScript and Custom CSS when you’re searching for where the code is being saved. In this post, I touch on a few other places, such as Entity Forms, Entity Lists, Web Files and Content Snippets.
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Power Pages: When to Use (and When Not To)
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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.
