Category Archives: Uncategorized

Itaintboring, get a life already!

I started to write technology posts long ago – it would be over 13 years by now. And it was going great until a certain point, where, it seems, the focus had shifted, and it has kept shifting ever since. Everything seems to be changing so fast around us that getting stuck on the technology… Read More »

Snippet rendering in Power Pages (again) – there is more to it

I love subtle differences in how various features work. They make my life miserable sometimes, but they also give me some advantage. I can even beat copilots… since how would AI know about such things? I blogged about snippets rendering recently: https://www.itaintboring.com/power-platform/power-pages-snippet-rendering-3-options-3-different-html-outputs/ Turned out there is more to it. Look at the liquid below and… Read More »

Setting up my own reverse proxy for Power Pages with docker, nginx, oauth2proxy, Azure B2C and a custom cloud flow to do some extra checks

Earlier this month I was thinking of a way to use “on demand” licensing with Power Platform (including Power Pages) for a “micro business” company, and, although it’s probably arguable what makes sense and what’s not, but one of the things I wanted to figure out is whether it would be possible to lock down… Read More »

Macro Templates solution: deployment

This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: To deploy the solution, follow these steps (loosely): Finally, to test it out, create a record in the Template Demo table and use “New Document” button to test it all out:

Macro Templates solution: Dataverse tables

This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: In the Macro Templates demo solution, there are only 3 tables: Technically, only two of those are needed for the templates (“Document Teamplate” and “Template Download”), the only reason there is yet another one (“Template… Read More »

Macro Template solution: template file

This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: You will find a sample template file in the git repo: It’s a sample, you can create your own, and there can be multiple templates. Ultimately, they all need to be added to the Document… Read More »

Macro Templates solution: Power Automate flow

This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: There is a single cloud flow in the solution – the purpose of that flow is to create a small excel spreadsheet in Sharepoint that has all the data the document template may need. On… Read More »

Macro Templates solution: Custom Page dialog

This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: Custom pages are great – they are easy to develop, they can do what a canvas application can do, and they work within the model-driven application. We can also use custom pages with Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo to… Read More »