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Posted on by Amad233

Hi,

Here is what I have:

- A PowerPage website with Azure AD as default identity provider

- Almost all my pages are custom made and I am using API to access Dataverse rather than the forms/views already provided.

- Boolean fields in the contact table which will allow different users to access different records/sections on the website. Below are examples of those fields:

- IsSection1

- IsSection2

- IsSection3

What I am trying to achieve:

- I need to create the records in the contact table before the users logs in with their Microsoft Account, before they even access the website for the first time.

- I can then check which sections will be for which user.

The issue:

- The record is created in the contact table only when the user logs in with his Microsoft account for the first time.

I've tried to create the contact record with the same email beforehand. The system then gives and error the the user already exists.

The same applies if I try to use roles, there should be a contact record to assign the roles to.

Any idea how to resolve this?

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abm abm 32,865 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi

Did you created the external identity record for that contact

Here username is the GUID. This you can obtain from AD > users

Identity provider GUID is the Tenant Id. You can get this from Portal Azure > Microsoft Entra ID

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You will either need to:

Create an External Identity record for the contact (and populating it with the guid of their existing Azure/Entra record), and setting some additional fields on the contact such as login enabled and there's another field (name escapes me at the moment) that you need to populate with a guid (any guid, but must be a guid); or

After creating your Contact in Dataverse send them a Portal Invite. When they redeem the invitation it will bind the Entra to the Contact (by creating an External Identity record)https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/security/invite-contacts note you generally also need to edit the Dataverse Workflow "Send Invitation" as the defualt url in it is usually incorrect; or

There are additional settings on the Identity Provider setup, where you can turn on "Contact mapping with email" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/security/authentication/openid-provider#additional-settings-in-power-pages

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Amad233 27 on at

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Thank you Guys.

@Fubar I am currently not using Invitations as I do not want the user to see that login screen.

@abm abm I did create the external user identity.

I have managed to resolve the issue. It was the stamp field which needed a random GUID for it to work.

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