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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: Power Automate List Action Button

December 30, 2024 3 Min.To Read

A member of the Power Pages community recently reached out to me asking about how you can know which contact triggered a classic workflow when added via the list action buttons. Unfortunately, the answer is: you can’t. You can, however, know which contact triggered a Power Automate flow. But as of now, you can’t add a Power Automate action button to a list via configuration – you need a bit of JavaScript to create the action button and invoke a Power Automate flow via the Power Pages Web API. In this post, I’ll look at how to do exactly that.

Power Pages: Another “Leak”

November 29, 2024 4 Min.To Read

For the second time in a few years, Power Pages is making the news for all the wrong reasons. In mid-November 2024, Aaron Costello of security firm AppOmni published an article describing what he called “a significant data exposure issue within Microsoft Power Pages”. Let’s look at what he discovered.

Power Pages: Versus Power Apps

October 28, 2024 3 Min.To Read

A question I recently saw on the Power Platform Community forums asked why would someone use Power Apps (I’m assuming they are referring to canvas apps) instead of Power Pages. They mentioned that using Dataverse with Power Apps requires a premium license, so I think the implication is that Power Pages might be a cheaper option. In this blog post, I’m going to look at some of considerations when making the choice between Power Pages and Power Apps (both model-driven and canvas).

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