Tip #1411: Power Apps portal vulnerability checks using PowerShell

I’ve created couple scripts that quickly check if your Power Apps portal has a potential vulnerability in the portals I look after. OData Endpoint Probe This one is quite trivial and simply probes the OData endpoints exposed by the portal. Takes portal url as a parameter and lists all OData endpoints. Endpoint is marked as […]

Tip #1407: How to secure Power Apps portal from making the news

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You are a CEO of Rykita, a worldwide manufacturer of power tools used by millions. You wake up invigorated and ready for action only to see the news headlines “Rykita injures more than a thousand customers”, “Calls for Rykita to blunt their tools”, “Rykita customers bleed profusely”, “Users of Rykita tools risk infection if injured”, […]

Tip #1391: Content management in Power Apps portals

They said Power Apps portals are only good for building functionality. They said Power Apps portals can’t do content management. They said Power Apps portals do not support publishing cycle without taking pages offline. They. Were. Wrong. The Enabler Watch this video to learn how to use language feature in Power Apps portals to create […]

Tip #1321: Formatting currency values in Power Apps portals

Dollars are dollars are dollars. Until they’re not. I’ve been working on the portal implementation where pricing can look like this: Forms seem to be fine but any custom layout, uhm, is suddenly very challenging. I can get values without any issues but can’t format them for display. Before long, an SOS is sent: Folks, […]

Tip #1221: Need entity permission for dynamics lookup filters

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Entity lists in Dynamics 365 Portals include a cool Metadata Filter feature that creates a faceted search over the content of your list. You can filter using text, ranges of values, lookups, optionsets, and even custom FetchXML filter. When you filter by a lookup, you can use a list of static values in your filter, […]