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Editable Entity List or Editable Subgrid PowerApps Portals

Editable Grid PowerApps Portal In this blog, I am going to explain how we can use PowerAutomate and old school JQuery on PowerApps portal to convert Entity List into editable entity list or subgrid. I am only using the string attributes of the Lead entity for Quick Update in this blog. The benefit of making entity list editable with this approach is that we do not loose the OOTB functionality of Search, Sorting, Grid Configuration to enable edit/view-details/delete and Filtering. How I manipulate the data attributes in entity list using JQuery is shown in the below screenshot The screenshot below shows how the code manipulates the entity list html elements using the above code. The PowerAutomate for updating the data in CRM. A success message is displayed on the portal to let user know that the update has been accomplished and the record is Updated in CRM The value retrieval on Click of custom Quick Update bu

PowerApps Portal Generic Error Feedback from Portal User

As we all know that whenever there is a server error on the PowerApps Portals we only see a generic error message. Which looks like There is a method of logging errors from the portal using Azure blob Storage, but this is something that I won’t be discussing today. I will be going ahead and asking for more information for the error on the portal from the Portal User actually experiencing it. Let’s see how we can achieve this thing. We can create Portal Generic Error in Content snippet to add custom text or information for the error message, but it is hard to get entity forms added using Content Snippet or any other HTML to be created using any bootstrap or custom css on this page. The only CSS that you get on this page is from the index page which highlights the h1 tag with bold and red color and everything that you add goes into the div with class dialog. I have made use of JavaScript to change HTML content and have added an entity form asking Portal User to submi