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Adding variables onto any part of a Power Page

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Posted on by samhegartyunsw1

I am getting my head around Power Pages and am a bit underwhelmed with it's lack of flexibilty to display data on a page where you don't want it to be a simple form or in a list format. If I was, for example, to create a visual welcome page that's personalised to a user logged in, how do I best go about it? To keep it simple, how do I add their name to a page!? Am really familiar with Power Canvas apps, but Power Pages seems to be a different beast.

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Hugo Bernier Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @samhegartyunsw1 , seems that you're looking for Liquid templates, which allows you to do all the things you mentioned.

Take a look at this article, it should get you started. Just use the code editor view to insert liquid statements in your page.

I hope it helps?!

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Fubar 8,481 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Depending on what you are trying to do depends on if you would define a Web Template or just use some liquid in the Content block. note: Liquid should be used sparingly in a Content Block but sometimes it makes sense e.g. to say hello "portal user first name"
{% if user %} Hello {{ user.firstname }} {% else %} Some other text here {% endif %}
Note, in the above the IF statement checks that the 'user' object exists which means the user is logged in.

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samhegartyunsw1 23 on at

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Thanks @Fubar and @hugobernier , I'll check Liquid out. I have in mind a portal which displays a wide range of Dataverse info to a student including their courses, recent activity happening in their courses, profile information and notifications. Just getting my head around if Power Pages or a Canvas app would be the best for this.

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samhegartyunsw1 23 on at

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Thanks @Fubar and @hugobernier , I'll check Liquid out. I have in mind a portal which displays a wide range of Dataverse info to a student including their courses, recent activity happening in their courses, profile information and notifications. Just getting my head around if Power Pages or a Canvas app would be the best for this.

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oliver.rodrigues 9,425 Most Valuable Professional on at

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hi@samhegartyunsw1

did you get the liquid working? the way I like to see between Canvas App VS Power Pages is the following:

Power Pages - expose D365/Dataverse data to external users / leverages model-driven app capabilities

Canvas Apps - internal users / connects to pretty much any database / build forms from scratch (more flexibility but also a lot more work)

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samhegartyunsw1 23 on at

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I did thanks Oliver. It's good for basic things but agree with your comparison. I'm hoping eventually that Power Pages takes the best of what Canvas apps offer. Ideally there would be a base template and site structure like what Pages has but be able leverage the ability to better display data like you get with Canvas.

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