So you got started with Power Pages, and now you’re ready to edit pages in Power Pages. This post will guide you through the first steps.
Power Pages Studio vs Site Preview
Table of Contents
Our site is ready and now we want to make some customizations to the site. Before we edit pages in Power Pages, I will walk through the options by clicking on the Edit button.
First of all it is important to understand the differences between the Power Pages Studio view of your site and the Preview of the site.
As you can see the preview includes the navigation section at the top. While the Power Pages Studio mode only shows you the content of a page. In the Studio you will notice that orange ison at the top right that represents your global navigation.
Main Navigation
The Power Pages navigation section is where you can build that global navigation. In this section of the Power Pages Studio you will find pages that are part of your navigation and other pages. Other pages are part of your site but they aren’t directly available in the global navigation.
For the pages that are part of the global navigation there can be main pages and subpages.
More options can be added to the navigation by hitting the + or by adding a new sub page or you could even duplicate the selected page.
When you choose to create a new page you will first need to give the page a name and then select the layout for the page.
Edit pages in Power Pages
Now that we have created our first page, we want to make some customisations.
In the above page you will find that you can add section in a very similar way to SharePoint Online. You can select the type of section to be a full width, split in two column or 3 columns.
Then within the creation section you can add components. Components are like SharePoint web parts.
Currently you have a choice of the following components
- Text
- Button
- Image, Video
- Spacer
- Power BI
- List
- Form
- iFrame
You can quite quickly add a new list that will display for example Accounts. ( don’t do this if you don’t want to share the account details, this is just an example!)
Once you have selected the data source in Dataverse, you can select what a user can do within your portal. Not that this doesn’t meant that they also have permissions to do this. That is something that is controlled within Dataverse.
And then finally we can specify how many records are displayed and if users can search within the list.
And when we now reload our page, we will find that our web part has been added.
Having created the web part doesn’t mean that the data is actually visible to logged in users, for this to work we will need to set some permissions. Do you still remember the dynamics pages of circles that made sense to developers but for the rest of us they were just hurting our eyes?
Click on the permissions of the list component and a permissions pane will slide in.
When you create a new permission
You can now select for example Contact access and the relation ship that decides who can and who can’t access the data available.
More about Power Pages
Do you want to know about security in Power Pages? Or do you want to know more about all those components within Power Pages?
If you want to learn more about Power Pages then visit Power Pages – The ultimate user guide.