For the most part I don’t blog about the (roughly) monthly releases for Power Apps Portals, mostly because they deal with bug fixes for relatively obscure issues. However, last month I was happy to see a few items on the list that I’ve been waiting for, and I thought were worth sharing.
My latest article for MSDynamicsWorld.com was published today. It talks about the Power Apps Portals-related features in the 2020 Wave 1 Release Plans announced by Microsoft today, including updates to the Power Apps Portals Studio, and the CRUD API we’ve all been waiting for!
The 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.
One of the most frustrating things that can happen when developing any type of software is when you’ve got the code correct but, due to it being in the wrong place, it doesn’t work as you’ve expected. A recent question on the community forums highlights the importance of putting your JavaScript in the right place.
A question popped up a couple weeks ago about the best way to force everyone to have to login to your Power Apps Portals before getting access to anything. At first I gave a very wrong answer – thankfully MVP Nick Doelman corrected me, and in the process, we all learned another thing about licensing.
Caching has long been a hot topic when it comes to the Portals technology – so much so that it used in the name of top rated Power Apps Portals podcast “Refresh the Cache” hosted by MVPs Nick Doelman and Colin Vermander. So what is caching, why is it important for Power Apps Portals, and what’s changed about it recently?
Even though almost everyone now completely understands and agrees with the new licensing scheme for Power Apps Portals (right?), I still get questions on it from time to time (or is it all the time?). So I thought I’d share my own personal interpretation of some of the nuances.
In the summer when I did a series of posts on one way of customizing the registration process for Portal users, Dileep Singh (@rulesrchanged) – the head of Power Apps Portals at Microsoft – reminded everyone not to forget about how you can customize the registration experience if you’re using Azure AD B2C. In this post, I’ll go through the steps to do just that.
Azure AD B2C is Microsoft’s preferred identity provider for Power Apps Portals. In this post, I’ll provide an overview of the technology, why it’s Microsoft’s preferred identity provider, and a few tips on how to set it up.
Last time I gave an overview of authentication with Power Apps Portals, and I mentioned that external authentication is the way to go. In this post I dive a bit deeper into external authentication.
