How did we crate a game using Power Platform in just 2 days?
Author: Ulrikke Akerbæk
User Experience through digital interfaces, interaction, branding and visual design has been her passion and focus since she created her first website at age 14. She is a solution architect for Power Platform, specializing in Power Apps Portals. She is a Business Applications MVP and was named one of the top 50 women in tech in Norway in 2022. Currently working as Low Code Practice Lead at Itera.
Someone said it can’t be done. But they did it anyway. Scottish Summit 2020 was a success! This blog post is a summary of key takeaways for me.
Let me show you how to customize the sign-in and registration page in Power App Portals.
There is no obvious way to customize the sign-in and registration page in Power App Portals. The pages don’t exist in the Web Pages directory, and there is no Web Template. Even if you are logged into the portal as an administrator the Portal Content Editor Toolbar doesn’t appear on these pages. There is no way – essentially – to edit the look and feel of these pages.
What is the difference between Power Apps for external users and Power Apps Portals? The short answer is; They are two different products.
The confusion comes from Microsoft Marketing choice of words when launching the October release updates “Enable external access with portals”
In the old days when I worked with SharePoint and Office 365 we created trial tenants left and right to give customers proof of concept (POC) or try out the shiny new thing first hand. Today I realized that all the old URL’s that I have saved to “Create trial tenant” sites all say “Join the demo”. That’s not what I want; I need to tough, feel and experiment!
We use a theme framework that look lightly different from the OOTB (out of the box) experience. I need to add come classes and change the structure somewhat to make lists look like they should. I need a custom entity list. This is how:
This blog post about “Power App Portals custom Entity List view selector” will show you step-by-step how improve your custom entity list in your Power App Portal to show the name of the current view instead of just “views” at the list header. Why is this important? It let your user know what view they are currently looking at.