Category: Power Apps

Power Pages: Management App vs PPAC vs Design Studio
September 16, 2024 5 Min.To ReadWhen building a website with Power Pages, there are a few different interfaces that are available. If you’re new to the product, it can be a bit confusing to know what they all are, and what they are used for, especially because there can overlap between them. In this blog post, I’ll do my best to help reduce some of that confusion.

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.

Power Pages: Not So Public Key
July 19, 2024 4 Min.To ReadOver the last few years, we’ve been working on ecLearn – a Learning Management System (LMS) built on top of the Microsoft Power Platform. It allows organizations to create and deliver courses using either a model-driven Power App or Power Pages. As I’ve described in previous posts previous posts, delivering an ISV product using Power Pages is not without its challenges. In this post, I’m going to look at one particular issue we ran into during our development.

Power Pages: Multiselect Load Event
June 18, 2024 5 Min.To ReadA few months back, I wrote an article about how to handle the change event for multiselect (choices) columns on Power Pages forms. Another common requirement is handling an event when the page first loads – this can be useful in situations where you want to modify the available options based on other values on the page. In this post, I’ll look at how you might be able to do 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.

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.

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.

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.