Power Pages: Missing Sign-In and Profile Links from Header
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by arpitpowerguide
2w ago
Problem Statement When you create a Power Pages site in your Power Platform environment, sometimes you observe that there is no option to login to the portal. And if you are already logged in to the portal through a single sign-on, especially when your site is PRIVATE, then you don’t find any option to navigate to the profile page. Root Cause This is because Power Pages has introduced a few new Site Settings related to Profile named Header/ShowAllProfileNavigationLinks and Profile/Enabled, that decide whether to show the links created under Profile Navigation links or not. Profile/Enabled: I ..read more
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Conditionally Secure/Mask Column in Microsoft Dataverse
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by arpitpowerguide
1y ago
Introduction Hello everyone, Glad to have you on my blog! In this blog post, I am going to share some useful information regarding one security feature of Microsoft Dataverse, that I have been struggling to find the solution from past couple of weeks. So, the requirement was to conditionally secure/mask the Microsoft Dataverse column. There are numerous business requirements, where you have to conditionally secure/mask the Dataverse column. It seems easy to implement at first glance, however it’s not as easy as you think. Let’s think about following security requirements: Mask the last 4 digi ..read more
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PowerApps – Get Canvas App Logged-In User Role from Dynamics 365
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by arpitpowerguide
1y ago
Introduction Hi Everyone, Hope you are doing great and staying safe! Today, in this blog post I am going to share #PowerGuideTip31, where I\’ll demonstrate how to read Dynamics 365 security role in PowerApps Canvas App. There are many business use cases, where we need to design an App based on the Dynamics 365 security role. One of the best examples is: Role-based Canvas App, where we need to navigate the user to different-2 screens or perform different process/flow based on the role assigned in the Dynamics 365 application. I have already been demonstrated this feature in my earlier blog pos ..read more
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Canvas Apps – Auto populate Option Set value in the Canvas App Form
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by arpitpowerguide
1y ago
Introduction Hi Everyone, Hope you are well and staying safe! In today\’s #PowerGuideTip30, I will show you how to auto-populate or set value in Option set field in Canvas App. I have designed a Canvas App for Event Management purposes, where I have added a screen that the Event Organizer uses to create an Event. This screen has an Option Set field called \’Event Status\’ that shows the status of the event. I don\’t want to allow the Event Organizer to set the Event Status value manually and want to auto-populate its value to \’Submitted\’ instead. Solution To auto-populate value in Opti ..read more
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Quick guide to use PCF Controls (Custom Code Components) in PowerApps Portals
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by arpitpowerguide
1y ago
Introduction Hi Everyone, I hope you are well, staying safe and healthy. Today I am extremely happy to share the recent Microsoft update, that Custom Code Components (PowerApps Component Framework Controls) or PCF Controls are now supported in PowerApps Portals. For those who do not know about Custom Code Component or PCF Controls, Please bear with me, because In today\’s PowerGuideTip29, I am going to share a quick guide to use the custom code components in PowerApps Portals. What is Custom Code Component or PCF Controls? Custom controls let you transform fields that traditionally co ..read more
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Power Apps Portal – Create Left Navigation Menu
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by arpitpowerguide
2y ago
Introduction Hey everyone,, Hope you are doing well and staying safe! In this #PowerGuideTip, I am going to share a Tip to customize portal default toolbar menu. As you know that currently portal toolbar menu (weblinks) has two major UI limitations: By default portal menu/toolbar can only be appeared on the header. Only display navigation menu up to 1 level. As depicted in pic below, you can see child links of only Power Guide Tips, not the child links of Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Business Requirement Customizing portal UI is one of the most common business requirement, where your ..read more
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Power Apps Portals – Extend Portal Trial Period
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by arpitpowerguide
2y ago
Introduction A portal is always created as a trial. A trial portal, which expires after 30 days, is useful for trying out its capabilities at no cost. After it expires, the portal is suspended and shut down. Seven days after it’s suspended, the trial portal is deleted.  As an administrator, you can convert a trial or suspended portal to a production portal. When converting a portal from trial to production, you must ensure that the environment is also a production environment. You can’t convert a trial portal to a production portal in a trial environment. It is always recommended to conve ..read more
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Power Apps – Set/Reset values in Choice and Lookup Columns
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by arpitpowerguide
2y ago
Hello Folks, In this #PowerGuideTip, I am going to share a Tip to set/reset value in Choice (earlier name: Option Set) and Lookup field of Microsoft Dataverse in Power Apps. Requirements I have came across numerous business requirements and have also seen folks asking in community about setting/resetting value in choice (dropdown/optionset) and lookup field on button click. This article helps you fulfill following business requirements in Power Apps: Set value in Choice (Option Set) field of Microsoft Dataverse on-demand in Edit form. Set value in Lookup field on-demand in Edit form. Autopop ..read more
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Power Apps Portals – View Quick View Subgrid Data
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by arpitpowerguide
2y ago
Recently, while working on portal I had a requirement to display Quick View Form which had subgrid of related records. Usually, when we display subgrid on portal, it can be configured through Basic/Advanced Form Metadata like we can add Create action, Download action and View details action. However, Quick View Subgrid is quite different with the normal subgrid because it displays the related record one level deeper. For example, I have a Account form on the portal and I use quick view form to display the related cases of primary contact of that account, then the relationship is one level dee ..read more
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PowerApps Portals Build Tools – Automate Portal Deployment
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by arpitpowerguide
2y ago
Introduction This tool empowers developers to enable CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) of portal configuration. You can use this tool to check-in the portal configuration to source control and move portal configuration to any environment using Power Apps CLI. For more details about Power Apps CLI support for Power Apps Portal. You can check these articles: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/power-apps-cli-tutorial https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/power-apps-cli Task Description Portal Tool Installer This tasks install pr ..read more
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