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Power Apps Portals: Authentication Overview

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

If you’re new to Power Apps Portals, or you’re an Adxstudio veteran, Portal authentication can be a tricky concept – there are a lot of options, and since we’re dealing with getting access to potentially sensitive data, you want to make sure you’re doing it right. I’ve got a few posts lined up on this subject, but I thought I’d start with a general overview of how authentication works in Power Apps Portals.

PowerApps Portals: Liquid and JavaScript – Better Together!

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

PowerApps 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.

PowerApps Portals: Another UI Change Using Only CSS

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

While not officially a series, I’ve done a few posts now on how to use CSS to modify some of the out-of-the-box experiences within PowerApps Portals. This week, I’ll show you show to convert the dropdown used to select the current view for an Entity List into tabs.

PowerApps Portals: Data Upload Using SharePoint and Flow

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

A question that’s popped up a few times on the community forums is around a solution that would allow PowerApps Portals users to upload an Excel or CSV file and have records created in the CDS/Dynamics database. Some others have suggested some answers, so I’d thought I’d summarize, plus offer another possible solution.

PowerApps Portals: Support for X-Content-Type-Options HTTP Header

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

While perusing the latest release notes for PowerApps Portals, I came across a note that Microsoft has added support for the HTTP/X-Content-Type-Options HTTP Header. Since it’s something I’ve run into in the past, but not something that many Dynamics/Power Platform developers may have seen, I thought I’d provide a quick summary of what it’s for.

PowerApps Portals: Unexpected Read-only Entity Form

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

There are certain cases where you can do everything you’d think is required to setup an editable Entity Form, yet for some reason it keeps appearing as read-only. In this post, I’ll explain why. Spoiler alert: I don’t have a great workaround for this problem, but to save some other people the headache of trying to figure out what’s going on, I thought I’d put together a quick post.

PowerApps Portals: Multiselect Option Set – Part 2

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

A couple of weeks ago I shared a solution for supporting multiselect option sets on a PowerApps Portal (they aren’t currently supported out-of-the-box), however it only worked for creating new records. If you want it to work for updating existing records, there is a bit more work to do, but thankfully not that much!

PowerApps Portals: Knowledge Articles and Liquid

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

There are some areas of PowerApps Portals that are still implemented using either ASP.NET MVC or ASPX, instead of via Web Templates, which means the configurability options are limited – one of those is the Knowledge Base (which exposes Knowledge Article entities). Often we can use Liquid and JavaScript to customize some of these areas, but there is one thing in particular that makes doing this for the Knowledge Base challenging – in this post I’ll explain what that is, and how to get around it.

PowerApps Portals: Multiselect Option Set

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

Everyone rejoiced when multiselect option sets were added in Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement v9. Unfortunately, PowerApps Portals/Dynamics 365 Portals do not yet support these field types out-of-the-box on Entity Forms or Web Forms. In this post, I’ll describe how, which a bit of code, you can add that support yourself, and demonstrate a particular pattern that can be used to add sophisticated UI elements to your Portal.

PowerApps Portals: Recent News and Pricing

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

I’ve been a bit quiet these last few weeks due to a combination of work, landscaping and a bit of vacation. But things are now a bit closer to normal, and since I’ve been asked by a few people about the recent (well, maybe not so recent anymore) announcements regarding PowerApps Portals, I thought I’d share my thoughts here.