Power Apps Portals Web Form Ideas, Desired Improvements

Having worked with portals for a very long time now there is always a way to get something done even in a world where you can't access the portal code. Be it with some JavaScript, hidden iFrame or the companion app approach. It's great because it can get you to a solution for the business …

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Configuration Migration Tool Filter Updates and the Power Apps Portal

If you haven't heard or seen the most recent update to the SDK tool Configuration Migration Tool (CMT) then it is a must check out as the latest version of the tool includes filtering capaibility as Alan Mervitz (@amervitz) noticed on Twitter and has documented on his blog. This feature in CMT has been long …

Inject PowerApps Environment Variables into Entity Record Data

PowerApps Environment Variables, a new solution component that provides a great way to transport a definition, default value and override value used in configuration. This provides a lot of opportunity as configuration based in data with a solution was always really complex to do. It solves a great problem but how else can it be …

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 …