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Unable to edit a record from a list

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Posted on by 37,346 Super User 2026 Season 2

Hi all,

I’m having a hard time working out how to configure a list component to show the edit link that opens the selected record. The link doesn’t appear as shown here.

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I can open the forms to create and view a record. It’s just the edit that doesn’t work.

The problem occurs for both anonymous and authenticated users. Because the configuration is different for both cases, I’ll focus on anonymous access here and I’ll create another post for the authenticated setup.

The initial steps that I’ve carried out include:

  • Resetting the portal
  • Creating a brand new custom entity
  • Creating a new list and form controls. I created 3 forms to edit, view, and create a record

Here’s the setup of my list:

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The Enable entity permission is off, the Target type is Form, and the form name setting is frmWidgetEdit.

In the settings for frmWidgetEdit, I set the Record source type to Query String, the Record ID query string parameter name to id, and the enable entity permissions checkbox to off.

 

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In the list settings, I've set the Record ID query string parameter name to id, so that it corresponds with the form setting.

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It seems strange that I can create a record, yet I cannot edit the record that I just created.

Can someone see what I’ve missed here?

Many thanks!

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    timl Profile Picture
    37,346 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    As an update, I've resolved this by explicitly assigning the edit permission to the anonymous web role. Although it is still interesting how it isn't necessary to explicitly set the create permission for record creation to work.

  • alrezac Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi,

     

    It looks like you were able to figure out the answer to your issue here. I just wanted to add in a bit more information here if you would like to take a look. This appears to be similar to what was being set up in this article.

     

    https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/implementing-role-based-permission/

     

    Regards,

     

    Alex

     

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  • Summer Garg Profile Picture
    48 on at

    Hi,

     

    please check this article 

    https://crmhub.blogspot.com/2017/11/Update-record-from-Entity-List.html

     

    For more tutorial list on portal, you can check this one : 

    https://crmhub.blogspot.com/p/d365-portal-adx-studio-portal.html

     

    Keep Learning, keep Sharing , Keep Growing !!!

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