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Reset a PowerApps Portal – A Complete Guide

Follow my blog for more interesting topics on Dynamics 365, Portals and Power Platform. For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com So I am back with another blog post on PowerApps portal. And again with a feature which is quite useful and used by a lot of users. In this blog I am going …

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Error Management in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portals – A complete guide

Follow my blog for more interesting topics on Dynamics 365, Portals and Power Platform. For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com So readers, I am back with another blog. And quite rightly, a blog on PowerApps portals. In this blog I am going to discuss about a pretty important topic – “Error handling in …

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Diagnostic logging in PowerApps portals/ Dynamics 365 Portals

Follow my blog for more interesting topics on Dynamics 365, Portals and Power Platform. For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com In this blog, I will explain diagnostic logging feature in PowerApps Portal. This blog is basically a sub-topic of this blog here. In that blog, I explained in-depth the complete error management in …

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Display custom error page in PowerApps portals/ Dynamics 365 Portals

Follow my blog for more interesting topics on Dynamics 365, Portals and Power Platform. For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com In this blog, I will explain how to display a custom error page in PowerApps portals or Dynamics 365 portals. This blog is basically a sub-topic of this blog here. In that blog, …

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Field level security based on security roles in Entity Form/Web Form based on User Roles in Power Apps/ Dynamics 365 Portal

For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com If you are looking for a new feature that has been introduced, unfortunately it’s not. Come one Debajit! Don’t be so disappointing at the start of the  blog!But truth needs to be told! So what are my other options?Field security profiles are not available in Power …

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{Preview Feature} Create and Edit themes in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 portals in few clicks and all using an intuitive UI. Explore the new Simplified themes feature in PowerApps portal studio

For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com With every release of PowerApps and PowerApps portals, Microsoft is making the life of customizers easy. And when I saw this feature this was my reaction – “WOW“ Very simple yet so beneficial and time saving. Traditionally customers always had a ask to change the theme …

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{QuickTip} Logout from Dynamics 365 Portals/ PowerApps portals programmatically

Seeing the title of this post, you may be wondering what’s new about this post. After all, you already have a post which shows how to put custom login/ logoff button. Well,  there is something new here. And that’s why this blog post. The requirement this time is to logoff without user intervention. And based …

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Base64 encoding and Base64 decode using Liquid in Dynamics 365/ PowerApps portals

For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com Follow my blog for more interesting topics on Dynamics 365 and Portals As I have been working on liquids a lot lately, I am amazed by the simple and yet powerful language which allows me to do so much without drop of a sweat. And then …

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{Quick Tip} Display knowledge article as attachment in Dynamics 365/ PowerApps portals

For training, consulting and our products, please write to us at – info@xrmforyou.com I got this query from one of my blog readers and hence thought of sharing it with everyone. They were trying to display a knowledge article in portals. They were following the Microsoft guidance – “You can author knowledge articles and add …

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Setting value in DateTime field in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portals dynamically using Javascript

You may be wondering why this simple post? After all, setting a date value, what’s in that? Sometimes the simplest of things takes us by surprise. Below is a screenshot of an entity form with date field. Based on custom business logic on the client side, we have to set the value of the date …

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Azure storage integration with PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portals not working? Receiving “access is denied” message in portal logs. This can be a reason as well. Check this out!

Well, there can be so many reasons why Azure Storage integration with Dynamics 365 Portals/ PowerApps portals is not working. However more often than not, the most common error I see is “access is denied” message in the portal logs. And you scramble to your portal configurations and verify the connection string to your azure …

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Configure web resource in CDS/ Dynamics 365 form to show documents uploaded in Azure storage in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portals

The is the second blog of this series. If you are on this blog and have missed out on the first one, I request you to go through the previous one to be  fully aware of the context. Want to leverage Azure storage for your documents in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 portals instead of Notes? Check …

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Want to leverage Azure storage for your documents in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 portals instead of Notes? Check this out

Storing documents from portal is fairly important task in all Portal implementations. And Powerapps portals are well equipped to provide you the flexibility to integrate with SharePoint, CDS and now Azure storage accounts as well for your documents. While SharePoint and notes integrations are quite common, integrating with azure storage account requires quite a few …

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{Preview Feature} Wish you could set up portal authentication with multiple provider through an intuitive UI instead of manually creating site settings. The new simplified authentication preview feature in portals allow you to do just that. Check this out!

I was just going through this Preview feature of PowerApps portals and I could not stop myself from sharing it. If you have ever worked on Powerapps/ Dynamics 365 portals authentication, you know the pain of remembering every site setting and then working out your way to fix them. It’s kind of nightmare to configure …

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Setting up default authentication provider in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portals using identity provider configuration UI

In this blog, I will set-up the default portal authentication provider using the new PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portal identity provider configuration UI. If you are not aware of the preview feature, please visit the previous blog to know more about this new preview feature. So below is the identity provider screen. And by default, Azure …

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{Preview Feature} Google Authentication in Dynamics 365/ PowerApps portals using the Identity configuration UI in PowerApps

In this blog, I will set-up Google authentication using the new PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portal identity provider configuration UI. If you are not aware of the preview feature, please visit the previous blog to know more about this new preview feature. In the identity provider screen, we configure the Google provider. Once we click on …

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Rich Text Field like email description are showing in plain text with html tags in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 Portals

This one is quite interesting. So my customer was showing the timeline on the portal. So emails, appointments and phone calls we being shown in portal timeline. The problem with timeline in portals is when too many of them are there, it becomes a clutter. So our customer wanted to have separate form dedicated for …

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Having issue while working with multi-line HTML/ text content snippets in Dynamics 365/ PowerApps portals? No worries, liquid has got your back

Well this one is really interesting. And sometimes the strangest of issues comes from the most unexpected scenarios. We have content snippet for English language. Snippet type is HTML. Customer is using this snippet in JavaScript on load of the webpage. Snippet screenshot below And below is the JavaScript written on load of the web …

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Convert New line to html break in PowerApps Portals/ Dynamics 365 Portals using Liquid

Recently we had a requirement where we needed to show the text stored in multiline textbox in Dynamics 365, inside a div element in PowerApps portal. The problem was when we have a text inside a multi-line textbox and the user press the enter key, the value is stored as new line character. However when …

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Language specific custom text in Dynamics 365 portals/ PowerApps portals

This is a very common requirement in PowerApps portals where you need to show language specific text to the user. If the portal is in french, then the french text shall be displayed accordingly text for other languages. let’s take a scenario here where you need to take the render language specific text using javascript. …

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{Solved} Typing in character t automatically inserting current datetime in datepicker controls on WebForms in Dynamics 365/ PowerApps Portals

Well, this one is indeed weird when I first time saw it. So basically we set up custom datetime format in portals to dd-MMM-yyyy. If you are unware of custom datetime format in portals, you can follow this blog here. All set and done, I launch a webform and the first step of the webform …

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Show success and error symbol for each field on-change of field value in Dynamics 365/ PowerApps portals.

Recently I got a requirement where every time an user keys in a wrong email address, the user should get a error notification icon on the control and if the user key in the correct email address, the user should get a success notification on the control. Very common requirement I shall say but again …

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{Quick Tip} Redirect to edit form post creating a record in PowerApps/ dynamics 365 portals

This one is a small tip for anyone who are trying to build up their portal application and did not have much exposure to portals yet. And this is one of the most common requirement that I face in almost every portal implementation. So you have your insert form and then when the portal user …

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WebForm sessions in PowerApps/ Dynamics 365 portals-All you need to know

Webforms are wonderful things in PowerApps portals. It allows you to design wizard control providing user with multiple steps to complete an operation. And one of the wonderful things with WebForms in PowerApps portals is to maintain sessions. Say a Webform have three steps – Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3. Say a portal …

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How to show ratings on PowerApps portals/ Dynamics 365 portals. All you need to know

Follow Debajit’s Power Apps & Dynamics 365 Blog on WordPress.com Recently we had this scenario where my customer was trying to configure ratings for a web page in PowerApps portal. Basically it’s a page where customers could login and rate the page content. So here was the developer who created the web-page and also checked …

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Configure redirects in Dynamics 365/ Powerapps portals.

Follow Debajit’s Power Apps & Dynamics 365 Blog on WordPress.com Recently I was working in some portal customizations for my client and one of the requirements that came in was to place a re-direct for a portal url. If you are unware of redirects in Portals, this docs link is the perfect place to get …

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Dynamics 365 Portal Authentication with Azure AD B2B Guest User.

Azure AD B2B has been a boon for organizations working with partners for its various applications without losing control on corporate data. The capability of adding guest users and assigning them application is something which opens up a horizon on single sign on of enterprise applications. For details on Azure AD B2B, please visit this …

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Show the top record from an entity list in Dynamics 365 portals/ powerapps portals using liquid

Follow my blog for more interesting topics on Dynamics 365, Portals and Power Platform. For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com This is one more of my recent articles on ADX portals and this blog I am going to write on how to select the topmost record from an entity view using query filters. …

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disable external authentication in Dynamics 365 portals/ Power apps portals

Follow my blog for more interesting topics on Dynamics 365, Portals and Power Platform. For training and consulting, write to us at info@xrmforyou.com In my previous blog posts, I have explained on how to enable custom authentication for your Dynamics 365 portals (ADX portals) with Identity providers like Azure Active Directory & Google/ facebook. Link for  …

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