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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.
Power Pages: Form Label Best Practices
January 28, 2025 3 Min.To ReadOne 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 ReadA 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 ReadFor 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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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.
