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Dynamics 365 Portal apps: Quick basic questions

Dear Experts,

Things are changing very quickly with Dynamics 365 portal with recent changes. Wanted to ask couple of qestions: Please if you can answer inline: Many thanks in advance.

1. I have an ADX portal already created and I want to provision a power app portals now. I believe I can do so as ADX portal sits on Azure, and power app portals are self hosted. But can two portals sit together side by side in Dynamics 365. Most probably I will go for model driven portal as it allows me to use dynamic existing entities. I have another question for it below.

2. How many power apps portal we can add now, only active per one instance or something has changed?

3. Can anyone tell me difference between two portals type Model Driven vs Portal.

Based on the selected environment in Power Apps, you can create a Common Data Service starter portal or a portal in an environment containing model-driven apps in Dynamics 365.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/portal-templates

They both look same to me, except model driven has 365 Entities. But can you not use model driven entities after triggering Just portal type?

But, you can also do the same with Portal type.

Does this mean, if you select CDS (Common Data Service) starter portal, you won't be able to use Dynamics entities then?

Please can someone explain me in basics way? Sorry for being silly, even after reading it again and again, did not get the exact idea?

4. My requirements are to use portal with Dynamic entities, plus more customisation plugin, workflows, or powerflows, shrepoint etc., which one do you recommend?

5. Portal template Types: I have to use portal with entites and lot of customisation, can you just use custom portal, can other templates be exactly imported into it?

6. Forms on Portal : Can I have a form on portals which can be divided into 3 pages, and linked to the dynamics 365 entities? Means 8 fields per page as it is a big form, Any tips

7. Can I call an action which is using a plugin in Power apps Portal or best way to call this ?

8. Can we use latest version of bootstrap in the portal, it is been using version 3.x and told, it will break things something?

Kind regards,

Jimmy

Hi partner,

In total, PowerApps Portals provide some additional features to the standard framework and in future D365 portal will be convert to powerapps portal.

2.How many portals can we run?

It is depend on your license.

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/?&ef_id=CjwKCAjwp-X0BRAFEiwAheRui3Eu6DUV0QAWlSYhP5rDBrRawXLPziLHJqEtpqkEo_rlVnhNmmLoNxoCaDkQAvD_BwE:G:s&OCID=AID2000969_SEM_CjwKCAjwp-X0BRAFEiwAheRui3Eu6DUV0QAWlSYhP5rDBrRawXLPziLHJqEtpqkEo_rlVnhNmmLoNxoCaDkQAvD_BwE:G:s

3.Model driven portal allows you to design portal with less code and more configuration which makes it easier for users to custom the portal.

Using CDS portal could also access to Dynamics 365 entities.

4.Plug-ins, workflows or other actions in D365 are all triggered by their conditions like creating/updating/deleting records, and you could also modify the records in portals which could trigger the workflow in D365 at the same time.

5.You could customize the portal in Dynamics 365 portals with custom JS or CSS templates.

6.You could add entity form which will related to the forms in D365 or custom web form in your portal to show forms of entity.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/configure/entity-forms

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/configure/web-form-steps

7.We could not trigger actions directly in portal by code, but as I mentioned before, if you can fulfill the trigger condition of workflows/plug-ins in portal, then you will be able to trigger them.

8.Currently portals are still using bootstrap 3.x, and it does not support to replace it with version 4.x, there has been an idea about it and we are looking forward MS to update the bootstrap to 4.x in the future.

https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=365d1e47-a439-e911-867a-0003ff68b621

BTW, I recommend you to ask one question in each thread which can help users answer your question more easier and could also let you get more detailed answers for each question :)

Best Regards,

Leo

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