SecurePay in Power Pages
This post explains how to integrate with SecurePay (Asutarlia’s payment gateway) in a Power Pages site. It’s based on the similar architecture pattern explained in the post Power Pages Paypal integration. If you are interested in this topic, you may also want to check out my posts on the Anatomy of the Stripe payments in Power Pages and How to improve Stripe payments in Power Pages. Please… Continue Reading...
Power Pages custom domain and RRset conflict error
When you create a Power Pages site, it will be available under the “powerappsportals.com” domain. If you want it to be part of your actual Internet real estate, you may want to add it to your organisation’s domain. The process of adding a custom domain to the Power Pages website is well documented here. What’s omitted, though, is an interesting detail you may face when doing it… Continue Reading...
Power Pages PayPal integration
This post provides guidance on PayPal integration in the Power Pages site. It was inspired by a few requests on this topic, so I’ve decided to publish this guide. Microsoft Power Pages evolve fast, and the Stripe integration is now available out of the box. I wrote a post about the Anatomy of the Stripe payments in Power Pages and How to improve Stripe payments in Power Pages. Check those… Continue Reading...
How to improve Stripe payments in Power Pages
My recent post, Anatomy of the Stripe payments in Power Pages, got some interest. I looked under the hood of this out-of-the-box integration and raised a few points on the limitations that come with that. In this post, I want to show how you might work around some of these and improve Stripe payments in Power Pages. Specifically, I’ll show you how: Capture additional information about… Continue Reading...
How to add any font to Power Pages site
The Power Pages Design Studio makes it easier for users to change out-of-the-box colours and fonts and even manage custom CSS files. However, if you work with specific customer requirements, you can quickly discover that the required brand font (for example, Lato, Proxima, or other) is unavailable in the Design Studio! This is quite disappointing, as most customers are likely to have fonts… Continue Reading...
Anatomy of the Stripe payments in Power Pages
Just a few weeks ago, as I write this, Microsoft announced online payments with Stripe in Power Pages in preview. As I wrote a few posts on payment integration in Power Apps (with Stripe and Braintree) and Power Portals, I couldn’t help but roll up my sleeves and look at what’s behind the scenes of this integration. You can find the basics in the official documentation on this feature… Continue Reading...
Will AI pass my aviation exam?
I’m both a technology geek and a pilot. Not surprisingly, when I got my hands on the Azure OpenAI service (in preview) and Azure AI Studio, I wanted to try it out on the aviation topic. Aviation is a highly regulated area of human activity, and many legislative documents define the operations. As I’m studying now for the CPL Air Law exam, I naturally decided to do a quick experiment to see if… Continue Reading...
Secure Microsoft Entra ID connector
I needed to create a Power Automate flow to create Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory) security groups and assign members to them. I was going to use the provided standard Microsoft Entra ID connector until I found that it requires application permissions scope to be “Directory.ReadWrite.All“. This gives the application access to any operation on the directory – including… Continue Reading...
Flighty energy
A problem: An aeroplane that weighs 1000kg is flying at 3500ft with a speed of 100kts. What speed would the aeroplane gain on descending to 3000ft, assuming NO power change, no configuration/flaps changes and the air friction loss is 15%? Bonus questions: Does it really depend on the mass of the aeroplane given? Would the flight path affect the answer – e.g. steep dive or steady… Continue Reading gr.and’s Article on...
How to get (almost) all Flow runs
The beauty of Power Platform is that with the access to Power Automate APIs (almost) anyone can use them and enhance the functionality. In my case I needed to get Power Automate flow run history. It’s available via the call to “https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.ProcessSimple/scopes/admin/environments/${environment}/flows/${flow}/runs?api-version=2016-11-01“, where the… Continue Reading...
Descriptions help!
Did you know, that if you add a description to a field when defining entity field table column (A), that would appear as a hint in Power Automate flow designer (B)? A good example when documentation pays off. A. Description in the tables’ column definition B. Power Automate hint Enjoy building! Continue Reading gr.and’s Article on their blog Descriptions help! Did you know, that if you add a description to a field when...
“When a record is selected” trigger error in Power Automate
“When a record is selected” trigger is a wonderful things that allows you to run flows on one or several records as selected by a user. In addition to that, these flows also run in that user’s context – so all connections would be established under that user. However, in some scenarios, when I tried to run the flow on some records I got this not particularly helpful error. As you may… Continue Reading...