Issue PCF-control in Portal/PowerPages with hasEntityPrivilege

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In a dataset PCF-control I need to check the create/update/delete privileges of the user on a specific entity.

For this I use this code:

const canCreate = context.utils.hasEntityPrivilege("account", 1, 0);
const canUpdate = context.utils.hasEntityPrivilege("account", 3, 0);
const canDelete = context.utils.hasEntityPrivilege("account", 4, 0);

In PowerApps this works fine, but in Portal/PowerPages I get the error "PCFNonImplementedError: hasEntityPrivilege: Method not implemented."

How to get the entity privileges of the user within a PCF-control on Portal/PowerPages?

And what is the best way in a PCF-control to check if it's in Portal/PowerPages or PowerApps? (checking if the browser-url ends with .dynamics.com?)

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hi @Ctse,

So unfortunately not all features from PCF exist in Pages. But there is a way to check it in Power Pages (but you would need to do it outside of the control in you web template and this check only applies to the current record not table overall) - you would need to use table permission https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/portals/liquid/liquid-objects#table-permissions

// get account record by id {% assign account = entities.account['936DA01F-9ABD-4d9d-80C7-02AF85C822A8'] %} {% if account.permissions.can_create %} // user can create <script> window.tablePermissions.canCreate = true; </script> {% endif %} {% if account.permissions.can_write%} // user can edit <script> window.tablePermissions.canUpdate = true; </script> {% endif %}

Because you will be performing those outside the pcf components one of the easiest ways is to add it to some custom object under the window. You can also use that window object to test if you run inside Power Pages as there is no explicit way to check it out.

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Hi OOlashyn,

Many thanks for the workaround.
For some scenarios this can work, but unfortunately I think this will not work in my scenario because then I need a recordid of an existing record where the current uer has read-access for. If the current user does not have any records and the pcf-control needs to know if the user can create a new record then there is no recordid to use for this.
I hope MS will add soon a more decent generic mechanism to check the entity privileges inside a pcf-control/code component which works also in Portal/PowerPages.

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