To understand how PowerApps portals work, you need to survey the wider Microsoft landscape. PowerApps sits within the Power Platform, which also includes:
- Power Automate (Flow) – for the creation and management of workflow and automated processes
- Power BI – for collating and analysing business data and intelligence across reporting functions with data-driven insights
- Power Virtual Agents – for constructing no-code chatbots to interact with your team, colleagues and customers
Within PowerApps, a portal is a type of app, alongside canvas and model-driven. Wondering whether PowerApps will work for your business? There are hundreds of PowerApps examples, using different elements and data sources for unique uses. You’re able to easily create high function, personalised, and intuitive portals – websites that are shareable with external users.
PowerApps portals interact with data shared on the Microsoft Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service). This allows viewers of your website to see the information you choose to share. Microsoft Dynamics Customer Engagement Portals also share the same low-code approach as PowerApps portals.
Use your PowerApps portal to share your PowerApps data with other users, either in or out of your network. Choose the data you want to integrate – from the Common Data Service (Dataverse), an in-built PowerApps app or another Microsoft service.
Next, decide which kind of portal users will have secure access to your information – anonymous or authenticated. The PowerApps developer offers a low-code approach to web application building. So, it’s simple to customise, adapt and develop your Portal websites whenever you need to.
