Did you know that you can’t use 302 (Redirect) responses in your http request flows ? I did not…
Apparently, “http request” cloud flows don’t want me to use redirect responses. Well, will have to do it differently I guess? This works:
“Parameterizing” web templates for web pages in Power Pages
When it comes to page rendering, there are a few possibilities in Power Pages, but the most common one is that you’d have the following: You’d add liquid code to the web template and to the web page, it would be merged by Power Pages at the time of rendering, and that’s what power pages… Read More »
Once your users sign in, where do they go by default?
Whether you are using a default identity provider or not, you will usually want one of these 4 things to happen to your users: Let’s see… Option 1: Have your users redirected to the same page where they were requested to sign in (or where they initiated the sign in process) Make sure ProfileRedirectEnabled site… Read More »
Azure AD is your only identity provider in dev, and you need your users to skip the usual “sign in” page?
If you only had one identity provider, and if you wanted your users to skip the intermediate sign in page, you could use LoginButtonAuthenticationType site setting to achieve just that. However, if that single provider were Azure AD, you’d need to figure out the value to use for the site setting. Here it goes: At… Read More »
Just created a new home page for your Power Pages site and it’s all failing? Don’t panic yet, try this instead
It took me a few hours to figure this out, and, hopefully, this post will save me, and, possibly, you, a few more hours the next time this happens. I started to see see this error when trying to sign in to the power pages site: Turned out what seems to have led to it… Read More »
Trying to add metadata for an existing table to your solution? May need to use classic solution designer still
Just had to update one of the solutions to add metadata to an existing table and realized that there seem to be no such option when that table is, already, in the solution: Which is different from how it works when a table is not, yet, in the solution: However, instead of removing a table/re-adding… Read More »
Power pages snippet rendering – 3 options, 3 different HTML outputs
As described on Microsoft learning, there are 3 ways we can render snippets in Power Pages: A developer can place a snippet using Liquid: {{ snippets[“<>”] }}, {% editable snippets ‘<>’ %}, or {% include ‘snippet’ snippet_name:'<>’ %}. Customize content by using content snippets | Microsoft Learn It looks like it’s more or less interchangeable,… Read More »
Power pages page rendering
Not sure this is 100% accurate, but this seems to be close to how Power Pages rendering works. I needed a bit of a visual for myself, so, perhaps, it’ll help someone else, too: There are a few caveats there: However, if you create a page template and set it up so that it won’t… Read More »
A completely hidden navbar relationship? Where did that come from?
I ran into something the other day, which I think is related to the difference between standard and enhanced data models, but, also, it’s related to some hidden stuff we don’t even know about when it comes to Power Platform. Basically, we have a solution that was developed on the environment that also had a… Read More »
Power Pages design studio – can’t get it started?
I am not a global admin in the tenant, I am just a system administrator in the specific environment, and, yet, a Power Pages site has already been created for me… so I was just about to go to the Power Pages portal to do some work, and then I got stuck on this: Which… Read More »