What is Power Pages and what is it used for?

Copilot answer

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade low-code SaaS platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites.

It lets low-code makers and professional developers rapidly design responsive, data-driven sites using a visual design studio, templates, and Microsoft Dataverse for shared business data.

Common uses include customer self-service portals, partner and vendor portals, event registration sites, and any web application that needs secure integration with Power Platform workflows and analytics.

Explain it to me like I’m 10 years old

Power Pages is a tool that helps people build websites without needing to write lots of code.

It lets you drag, drop, and design pages and connect them to a safe place that stores data so forms, sign-ups, and user accounts work correctly.

Companies use it to make things like help centers, event sign-up pages, or partner websites that need to share info with other apps.

Specialist answer

Ulrikke Akerbæk, Power Platform Practice Lead at Itera

Power Pages shine when you need external people to access data from Dataverse.

It’s a website product that allows you to create both static HTML pages, add out-of-the-box forms and lists over data and create a fully custom user experience for your users.

Because Power Pages is a native part of Power Platform you get state-of-the-art governance, security and administrative tools as a starting point, making it a natural part of your Power Platform solutions.

Nick Doelman, Self-employed Power Platform Specialist/Trainer/Coach

Microsoft Power Pages is a low-code development platform that lets organizations build secure websites for people outside their company (customers, members, volunteers, partners) and allows them to securely interact with business data relevant to who they are.

For example, customers can login and view only their invoices, members can login and renew their memberships, volunteers can view their assignments.

Power Pages interacts directly with Microsoft Dataverse (the Power Platform data service). Users can view and update data from lists, forms, and even by chatting with AI agents. Data is protected and only visible to authenticated users.

Explain it like it’s my first day on the job

Our website where our customers can log in and see their data – that’s Power Pages. Power Pages is the external part of the Power Platform, where you can communicate with your customers.

Power Pages is always built on top of Dataverse, and have a backend management tool built on Model-driven apps as well as a design site with five different workspaces.

Pages Workspace

The first workspace is your “Pages” workspace. This is where you create your different pages you want on the website. You can even use Copilot to create the pages, very useful if you’re not the best designer!

You also have the actual page on the screen to your right, here you can easily do edits and changes to the page, you don’t even have to use any code. If you are well versed in code, you always have the option to work with the code.

Styling Workspace

In the styling workspace, we can change the themes of the entire page with the click of a button. By selecting the different themes we change the colours fonts and a lot of other features. We can also customize the colours or other areas to create more of our own brand profile. You can even work directly in the CSS if you know your code.

Data Workspace

In the data workspace we can see which data we use from Dataverse. I can change the solution where I want to save changes and see the different tables, columns, views and forms in the solution.

Set up workspace

The set up workspace have a lot of useful areas to make sure your page is ready to be published and works secure and properly. You can change the URL of the website, this is a page you want your customers to use and find, it is good to connect it to your own domain.

In the Go-live checklist you can a go through step by step to make sure everything is ready and you can publish your page.

Also be sure to look under Copilot for the option to be able to change the search and to add an agent from Copilot Studio.

Security Workspace

Security is of course very important for any and all websites, and it’s not different for Power Pages. In the security workspace you can run scans, go through the very important web roles and permissions to set up who can see which pages and if any pages are behind login. The login can also be set up from this page, you can set up Microsoft Entra External ID or other authentication providers.

Use cases with large customers

A lot of Microsoft partners are using Power Pages as their support portal using the Dynamics 365 Customer Service template.

Ulrikke this articles specialist, who is one of the prominent Power Pages consultants in the world, has been involved in creating a Power Pages solution for the Norwegian Red Cross.

Going to the Special Olympics is an amazing feat, but registering for it shouldn’t be the hardest part. The Special Olympics International now uses Power Pages for the registration portal as well as the volunteer portal. Making sure the portal is accessible for everyone and gives control over the registration, storing of data and information process.

Use cases with small customers

One of the tools I use the most when I work with the Power Platform and Dynamics – XrmToolBox has a website built on Power Pages: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/.

All the different tools that are available is in a table in Dataverse and we see the tools in a view from Dataverse. If a new column is added to the view – it will automatically be pushed to the Power Pages view. Easy for management and easy for people who want to keep up to date with the documentation and tools automatically updated from Dataverse. You can be a small team, but still keep your website up to date without having anyone to update integrations and the website – just keep Dataverse up to date, and all is good.

One project I was involved in used Power Pages for applying to school. The school had been using manual applications and manual input of data for years, and streamlined the entire process with Power Pages, they save a lot of time and the errors have gone down, leaving the admins to actually support students and not punch data.

Training material

Learn: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/

Ulrikke Akerbæk: https://ulrikke.akerbak.com/

Nick Doelman: https://www.nickdoelman.com/ (You might even recognise the type of website this is!)

Kimmo Koski: https://www.kimmokoski.dev/

Franco Musso: https://francomusso.com/. If you ever wonder if all Power Pages sites have to look the same, have a look at this: https://francomusso.com/lessons-learnt-building-a-spotify-clone-with-power-pages-dataverse-and-power-automate-scottish-summit-2021

Power Pages Pro newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/power-pages-pro-newsletter-7042949598436360192/

Summary

Power Pages is a great tool to easily connect your Dataverse data with the world in a way you don’t have to worry about integration. As we all know – integration often takes twice as long and is three times as complex as you originally thought.

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