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In this post, we will look at using JWT, or JSON Web Tokens, with Power Apps Portals to implement a single sign-on (SSO) scenario when integrating with an external Web API. In a previous post, we went through an introduction to JSON Web Tokens. If you not familiar with JWT, please start here. Power Apps Portals have an ability to generate a JWT token which can be verified using a … Continue reading JWT JSON Web Tokens and Power Apps Portals
In this post, we will look at how to change the URL of a Power Apps Portal. First, go to the Power Platform Admin Center, go to Portals and click Manage: Under Portal Details, we see the Base Portal URL: Click on Portal Actions, then Change Base URL: Enter a new name, and click Change URL: You will see the message: After a few minutes, the base URL will be … Continue reading How to Change the URL of a Power Apps Portal
In this post, we will look at how to use FetchXML in a Power Apps Portal Web Page and Template. First, let’s go to the Portal Administration app and create a new Web Page Template: Paste in the FetchXML like below. You can see we are creating a new web template, and running a FetchXML query, then iterating through the results and returning them in a JSON format: Scroll down … Continue reading Using FetchXML in a Power Apps Portal Web Page Template
In this post, we will look at Power Apps Portals Web Roles and Table Permissions how they are used. We will go through an example of displaying a list of Dataverse records. First, let’s create a new portal called Company Jobs. The goal of the website is to display content to both internal authenticated and external non-authenticated users. The difference is that internal people will see some more information on the … Continue reading Intro to Power Apps Portals Web Roles and Table Permissions
In Power Apps Portals, when a user tries to reset their password, they may run into an error message “An unknown failure has occurred. Error ID #”: To resolve this, go to the Send Password Reset To Contact process and click on View Properties: We see the From email is the owner of the contact. If the contact is a portal-created contact, the owner is the SYSTEM account: To fix this, … Continue reading Power Apps Portal Unknown Failure for Password Reset
In this post, we will look at contact signup in Power Apps Portals. First, let’s look at the portal-contact design. When a person signs up for Power Apps portals, they will appear as a contact in Dynamics 365. I.e. if you browse to contacts, you will see the contact record. The type of Authentication enabled for a portal can be accessed by going to Settings in the Power Apps Maker … Continue reading How Contact Signup Works in Power Apps Portals
In this post, we will look at how to call the Dynamics 365 WebApi from Power Apps Portals. First, we can test the WebApi by browsing to it in the browser. The address is <portalurl>/_api/<entityname>. Let’s try the accounts entity, which would be the URL /_api/accounts and see if we can retrieve accounts: We get the message: {“error”:{“code”:”9004010C”,”message”:”Resource not found for the segment account.”}} Now, in the Portal Management app, … Continue reading Calling Dynamics 365 WebApi from Power Apps Portal
To make yourself a Power Apps Portal Administrator, you will need to open the Portal Management app and select the user you want to make Admin: Then go to Related->Web Roles: Click Add Existing Web Role: Find Administrators, then click Add: Now, when the user logs into the portal, and browses to _services/about, they will see the portal version number, and have the ability to clear cache, rebuild the search index, … Continue reading How to Assign a Power Apps Portal Administrator
In this post, we will look at how to turn off the Power Apps Portal open enrollment. Without turning off the setting, Portals will allow anyone to register by clicking on the Sign In, then Register link: To turn this off, in the Portal Management app, go to Site Settings, then Authentication/Registration/OpenRegistrationEnabled: Change the value to false and save the record: Now, when you go to the Portal, you won’t … Continue reading Turning Off Power Apps Portal Open Enrollment
The Power Apps Portal Checker is a useful tool to check issues in your Power Apps Portal. To use it, go to the Power Apps Portal Admin Center and select Run Portal Checker: Once complete, you will see feedback like below, which includes which pages have anonymous access, startup, caching issues etc. It’s a useful tool to run during and after Portal deployments.