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Power Pages Entity Forms UI Flexibility

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Hi Team, 

 

I am doing a fitment analysis for Power Portals for a requirement where I would like to have multiple modules like Ticket Management System,Transaction Processing System etc which will have their own Table Views for CRUD. 

 

While creating the forms, will I have the flexibility to play around with controls just like in Canvas App so that I can create a more UI/UX friendly application ? If not what would be the UI challenges I would face, Like any limitations in placing the controls or anything of that sort ?

 

Sorry for the basic question as I am getting started with Power Pages. 


Thanks in Advance !

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  • Christian Leverenz Profile Picture
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    Hi @Rajesh365 

    when you create Forms for the Portal, you have to opprtunity to add so called metadata to that forms. This metadata may include helptexts in all languages and for some datatypes the possibility to render them diffrently.

    For example a lookup can be rendered as a drop down (good, when there are only a few choices) and bools can be rendered in diffrent ways and so on. Depends a little bit on your requirements.

     

    You also have the possibility to use existing or create your own so called PCFs ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/component-framework/overview ) , basically components. Currently, only field bound (and i think unbound, but i am not sure) controls are supported in Portals. But we created also some list like controls which we bound to a field. a little bit clumsy but does the job.

    This is a really great feature as you can use the controls in many places.

    So, basically you are completely free in the design/UI/UX of each and every field by using PCF

     

    Hope this helps a little bit,

      Christian

     

    PS no need to excuse for questions, especially this is a good question

     

    PPS I had a project last year, where we used a mix of forms and controls which were written by out own and used plain html/js/vue based things and used the webapi to store the data. This worked really well. Today i would go for the pcf approach (which wasn't available when starting the portal)

     

  • oliver.rodrigues Profile Picture
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    ultimately you can change the entire CSS of your Portal (based on Bootstrap v3) and apply JavaScript/jQuery customizations to play with the look & feel of your Portal

    I personally find it more flexible than Canvas App, maybe not the OOB CSS, but once you apply your customizations it can get a lot more personalized

    Do a "inurl" search on google for powerappsportals and you will see many implementations of the platform

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