Using PowerApps Environment Variables

If you paid close attention to the entities in your environments you might have noticed that environmentvariabledefinitions and environmentvariablevalues have recently showed up in all CDS environment databases (Dynamics 365 apps included). You can also look at your Solution History and probably see a solutions called EnvironmentVariables and EnvironmentVariablesAnchor. If you have EnvironmentVariables 1.0.1.9 then …

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PowerApps Portal Force Restart

Sometimes you just need to restart your portal to get a setting to take effect. And sometimes the restart action in the portal administration just doesn't seem like it is restarting your portal. Why restart your portal? Some of the settings in your portal actually require a full cache flush, or restart of the behind …

Restrict Creation of PowerApps Portals

With portals moving into the make.powerapps.com as a first class application type this hugely widens the audience and makes the portal accessible to the general everyday user of the platform. But what if as administrator of your tenant you don't want Joe or Jane from accounting to install a portal freely in the environments they …

PowerApps Portals Pricing Update

Microsoft listens to feedback. The PowerApps Portals pricing that was revealed at Inspire and quickly drew many double takes is getting revised with tier pricing. Below is the full chart of details on the tiers, but the summary is that pricing is based on the amount of logins you purchase per month, with packs of …

PowerApps Portals API – Clear Cache

The cache has been the achilles heel sometimes of the Dynamics 365 portal and now Power Portals. A common function is to clear or reset the cache of the portal so you can see your changes and you can now do that through a hidden API call. Most of us Dynamics 365 portal users know …

PowerApps Portals Licensing for October 2019

If you didn't hear the news from Inspire, the PowerApps Portals is now in public preview and with that comes the announcement of the licensing for the portals. Some of the major changes are to change it to a capacity based license instead of basically a site/portal license. What that comes out looking like is …

Resetting PowerApps Environments Scripted

PowerApps and CDS without the bulk of the Dynamics 365 apps (Sales, Customer Service, etc.) are all the rage now and if you are a developer following a healthy ALM process then you are likely creating and destroying these CDS naked environments on a regular basis. Developers love to work with script and code, and …

What is new in Portals for Release Wave 2 (October 2019) Plan

The release wave 2 plan, the fancy new name for the planned items for the October 2019 release have been released today and include some very interesting notes about Portals. The major news in the release notes is the portal is becoming a first class app type with the October 2019 release. The Power Platform …

CDS/Dynamics 365 Global Discovery Service Additional Versions and Properties

As discussed previously in a post, Calling the Global Discovery Service (actually over 2 years ago) is a way of returning all the instances across regions that are within a tenant that the calling user belongs to in a single API call. This differs from the discovery service in each region where it only returns …

Deploy a CDS Starter Portal (Preview)

CDS Starter Portal was a feature mentioned in the April 2019 release notes and if you happen to have a Dynamics 365 tenant that also has PowerApps environment CDS databases provisioned you might have noticed you can actually preview this now! On a new portal add-on if you go and configure, or on an existing …