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Power Pages: Why Liquid and FetchXML Is Better Than Web API for Read Operations

February 24, 2025 4 Min.To Read

Recently 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.

Power Pages: Form Label Best Practices

January 28, 2025 3 Min.To Read

One of the fundamental features of Power Pages is the ability to create or edit Dataverse data via Forms. The layout of a Power Pages Forms is defined using Dataverse table forms, which are the same as those used in model-driven Power Apps. Part of that layout includes the labels for the fields of the form. In this post we’ll look at the various options Power Pages provides to customize those field labels.

Power Pages: Power Automate List Action Button

December 30, 2024 3 Min.To Read

A member of the Power Pages community recently reached out to me asking about how you can know which contact triggered a classic workflow when added via the list action buttons. Unfortunately, the answer is: you can’t. You can, however, know which contact triggered a Power Automate flow. But as of now, you can’t add a Power Automate action button to a list via configuration – you need a bit of JavaScript to create the action button and invoke a Power Automate flow via the Power Pages Web API. In this post, I’ll look at how to do exactly that.

Power Pages: Another “Leak”

November 29, 2024 4 Min.To Read

For the second time in a few years, Power Pages is making the news for all the wrong reasons. In mid-November 2024, Aaron Costello of security firm AppOmni published an article describing what he called “a significant data exposure issue within Microsoft Power Pages”. Let’s look at what he discovered.

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