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Category: Power Pages
Power Pages: How to Avoid Accidentally Exposing Your Data
September 30, 2026 4 Min.To ReadPower Pages once again has made the news for the wrong reasons – more confidential data exposed unintentionally. But just like in the past, it wasn’t due to a bug with Power Pages, but instead was due to the misconfiguration of features designed to allow site builders to control exactly who has access to what. In this post, we’ll look at the areas you need to be very careful about when working with Power Pages to ensure you don’t end up on the next list of organizations who have accidentally exposed their data.
Power Pages: Bulk Edit Interface Using Forms
September 14, 2026 5 Min.To ReadIn my last post, I covered a technique to allow users to bulk edit records from a List that used custom code to create the editing experience. But Power Pages has a built-in way to allow users to edit data – Forms. So let’s look at if we can use those to define our bulk edit experience.
Power Pages: Bulk Edit Interface Using Custom Code
August 31, 2026 6 Min.To ReadSummer was busy both personally and professionally, so I’m a bit behind in my blog posts, but I hope to make up for that over the next few weeks. In our last post, I demonstrated one way to create a multiselect interfact for a list, which is the first step in the process of creating bulk edit capabilities. In this post, we’ll look at a simple way to create an interface to capture the bulk edits.
Power Pages: Escape Filters
April 27, 2026 3 Min.To ReadIf you give your Power Pages code to an AI tool for analysis, there is a good chance that it might tell you that you have unescaped Liquid code. In this post, I’ll cover what that means, whether it is as bad as the tool might say, and what your options are to fix it.
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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 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.
