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Power Pages: Is AI the End of Lists and Forms?
November 27, 2025 4 Min.To ReadLast month I was fortunate enough to travel to Las Vegas for the Power Platform Community Conference, and of course the main topic of conversation was AI. When it comes to Power Pages specifically, the question of how vibe coding might be embraced by makers and how that would impact the product moving forward was a recurring theme. In this blog post, I’ll share my thoughts on what I think these new tools mean for those of us who work with Power Pages on a regular basis.
Power Pages: Calendar Click Event – Updated!
October 27, 2025 2 Min.To ReadIt’s always nice when people reach out to say that one of my blog posts was helpful. I also love it when people tell me how a blog post inspired them to come up with an even better solution. This happened recently when one of my colleagues at Engineered Code was working on a project that involved using the calendar functionality of Lists, and needed to customize the click event.
Power Pages: My Favorite ChatGPT Misconceptions
June 29, 2025 4 Min.To ReadAfter hand-crafting almost a hundred Power Pages memes, I recently gave in and started using ChatGPT to help generate ideas. It has been amazing. Not only has it help me create new content more quickly, but it has also highlighted some misconceptions that appear to be out there about Power Pages. In this post, I’ll look at some of my favorite things ChatGPT gets wrong about Power Pages.
Power Pages: Why Liquid and FetchXML Is Better Than Web API for Read Operations
February 24, 2025 4 Min.To ReadRecently someone commented on one of the videos on our YouTube channel asking why I usually recommend using Liquid and FetchXML for querying Dataverse as opposed to the Power Pages Web API. I responded with a quick answer, but I thought it might be helpful to put together something that goes into a bit more detail as to why I think there is still a place for Liquid and FetchXML.
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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 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.
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.
