2. During Microsoft Business Application Summit held on June 2019, a
new dimension was added to PowerApps. This is known as
PowerApps Portals.
The PowerApps Portal was entitled to Public Review in July 2019. In
this platform, PowerApp developers will be able to create strong
low-code and responsive portals. This will feature the external users
to interact with the data sources to their organization in Common
Data Service.
3. What is the PowerApps Portal?
PowerApps App Development Company will be able to create a new
experience for everyone. It includes external-facing websites. This
further allows the users outside their organization to register
through a myriad of identities. They can create and view data in a
Common Data Service or even browse anonymously. The full
capabilities of Dynamics 365 Portals are formulated right inside of
PowerApps.
These capabilities showcase a revamped end to end experience for
makers in developing a website. Further, they can customize the
same through pages, layout, and content. Developers can reuse
page designs with the use of templates. There are features for
adding forms and views for displaying key data from Common Data
Service. And this can further get published to users.
4. With the Public Preview of PowerApps Portals, nearly 6000
PowerApps Portals have been developed. It has now 2500+ monthly
active Portal makers who are building and designing the Portals.
The Public Preview has gained impeccable response featuring
feedback. This has further helped in restoring the capabilities.
5.
6. Finally, PowerApps Portal have made their way to be available to
everyone. All PowerApps developers can curate powerful low-code
and responsive portals. This will further allow the users outside their
organization to interact with data stored in Common Data Service.
Commence with PowerApps Portals
Without A Miss
If you have not tried the new PowerApps Portals, do it now. With
just a few simple steps, you are good to go for a PowerApps
trial. To understand the features and other specifications of the
PowerApps Portal setup, visit the documentation segment. You
will be able to find the same here –
https://aka.ms/PowerAppsPortalsDocs.
7. In case, if you have already signed up for Preview, your
PowerApps Portals will be migrated to General Availability. The
process is automatic. So, you can easily continue to use the
same.
The only setback here is that the update is only open to
commercial regions. It will be spreading out in the Government
clouds in a couple of weeks.
8. How will you get started?
PowerApps Portals preview is already featured for all PowerApps
Customers. All you need to do is log in to your PowerApps Studio.
And create a Portal.
If you want to know more about General availability, you can simply
go through the link mentioned above.
If you want to put forward your suggestions, you can simply get to
the category portal or ask a question in PowerApps Community. In
case you are attending Microsoft Inspire, go through their sessions
and check out PowerApps both in the Power Platform area.
10. PowerApps Portals entitled organization for creating websites that
can be shared with users outside their organization. It could be
anonymously or through login providers like LinkedIn, Microsoft
Account and others. The integration of enterprise login providers
is available. It can be through a variety of industry-standard
protocols. This includes SAML2, OpenId Connect, and WS-Fed.
Websites are formulated for those who can connect through the
corporate Azure Active Directory account.
11. Building Websites through portal designer
PowerApps app development has become easier. With the use of no-
code portal designer, you can create and manage content. This
includes pages, sitemaps, templates and more for creating pixel-
perfect experiences. You can easily customize your portal and make it
responsive through bootstrap themes.
Make use of the CDS components. This could be model-driven forms,
views, and dashboards for surface data that is saved in your Common
Data Service on your website.
13. You can now use professional developer aspects present in the
Common Data Service Platform. Also, you are entitled to make
use of the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Portal. This
includes templates, code plugins, workflows and more. This
supports in extending your website, catering sophistication use
when needed.
15. Using the prebuilt templates like Customer Self Service, Partner
Management, Community Self service, Employee Self Service,
etc. It helps in extending your Dynamics 365 Customer
Engagement Applications further allowing you to reach external
customers and Internal Employees.
17. Making use of the Advanced Administration Capabilities. This
includes Adding Vanity Domain Names, IP Address filtering,
Diagnostic Logging, Maintenance mode, Ability to turn off/restart
your website and many more.
So this was all about the PowerApps portal. Hope this article will
give you insights on everything about portals. Did we miss out on
anything? If yes, feel free to share it with us in the comments
section below.
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