Category Archives: Adxstudio

So you have a PowerPages (PowerApps Portal) website. A website user reports a problem with the data they are seeing, but you are unable to reproduce it using your login account. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could login as … Continue reading →

Currently PowerApps Portal does not support rich text editor out-of-the-box (OOTB). While the backend CRM has an OOTB rich text control that can be used in CRM, this unfortunately currently does not work on Portal. You can add rich text … Continue reading →

Recently a colleague taught me a trick that I did not know about Liquid in Dynamics 365 Portal: use the {%- -%} syntax (as oppose to {% %}) to keep the HTML output clean. I don’t think this is documented … Continue reading →

In Dynamics 365 Portal you can write FetchXML query in Liquid using the fetchxml tag. As this query can be dynamically constructed, there may be scenarios where you will need to debug it. There’s an undocumented feature that allows you … Continue reading →

Date-time fields in CRM Portal is a bit tricky when it comes to setting value dynamically using JavaScript. Behind the scene there are two HTML input fields that we need to worry about. First is the field that actually contains … Continue reading →

On a recent project we decided to build a custom entity list using jQuery DataTables as the OOTB entity list did not meet our requirements. As part of this we needed to build a delete list item functionality that should … Continue reading →

How do you programmatically query an N:N relationship in CRM Portal using JavaScript without developing additional services? You can do this with FetchXml and Liquid, and a small hack. Here is a good walkthrough of using FetchXml in Liquid to … Continue reading →