Category: xRM Portals Community Edition

Automatic Cache Invalidation for xRM Portals Community Edition
May 9, 2018 4 Min.To ReadIn a January blog post on upgrading to the xRM Portals Community Edition, I promised to look into automatic cache invalidation. It only took a few months, but I’m finally delivering on that promise.

Debugging Dynamics 365 Portals Server-side Code
February 28, 2018 3 Min.To ReadIf you’ve done any work with Dynamics 365 Portals, you’ve probably run into the dreaded “We’re sorry but something went wrong” white screen of death. In this post I’ll share the tricks I’ve used to get more details about the error without contacting Microsoft support.

Incorrect Content Type for JavaScript File in Dynamics 365 Portals
February 14, 2018 3 Min.To ReadWhen one of our clients who is using xRM Portals Community Edition wanted to batten down the hatches from a security perspective, we discovered that a core JavaScript file of Dynamics 365 Portals is being served with the incorrect content type.

Upgrading to xRM Portals Community Edition: Lessons Learned
January 24, 2018 3 Min.To ReadHaving gone through the entire process of upgrading a customer from Adxstudio v7 to xRM Portals Community Edition, I’d like to share what I’ve learned so that it might make your upgrade process a smoother experience.
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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.