{"id":28909,"date":"2021-08-09T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=28909"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T07:27:56","slug":"perform-changes-in-power-apps-portal-with-newly-introduced-microsoft-power-platform-cli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/perform-changes-in-power-apps-portal-with-newly-introduced-microsoft-power-platform-cli\/","title":{"rendered":"Perform changes in Power Apps Portal with newly introduced Microsoft Power Platform CLI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Microsoft recently introduced Microsoft Power Platform Command Line Interface to perform various operations on Microsoft Dataverse environments, Power Apps Portal, PCF, Plugin, Solution, Admin, and Canvas by using Visual Studio Code.<\/p>\n

In this blog, we will be focusing on Power Apps Portal and will see how we can connect Portal using Microsoft Power Platform CLI and perform various operation on the same.<\/p>\n

To be precise, we will create a new web page using CLI and check it on the portal.<\/p>\n

However, there are some prerequisites that we need to configure before start working on Power Apps Portal.<\/p>\n

First, we need to configure the Power Apps Portal for our CRM.<\/p>\n

Login to https:\/\/make.powerapps.com\/<\/a> and click Portal from Blank.<\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

After clicking the button, a popup will appear where we need to provide a suitable name for the portal and address.<\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

Then click on the Create button and wait for the portal to become ready to use.<\/p>\n

While the portal is being configured, we need to install the Power Platform VS Code Extension in our Visual Studio Code.<\/p>\n

Open the Visual Studio, click the extension button and search for the Power Platform VS Code Extension. Once it is visible, click the install button.<\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

Here we are done with prerequisites and ready to connect the Power Apps Portal.<\/p>\n

Now create new folder and open that into Visual Studio Code. The Power Apps Portal data will be downloaded in this newly created folder.<\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

Open the Terminal in VS Code.<\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

Now we need to authenticate it in order to connect Power Apps Portal. To authenticate we will use below command:<\/p>\n

Command: <\/strong>pac auth create –url <Dynamics CRM Url><\/em> \u2013un <User ID><\/em> -p <Password><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For example:<\/em><\/strong> pac auth create –url https:\/\/orgname.crm.dynamics.com \u2013un admin@orgname.onmicrosoft.com -p pass@123<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

You can check if you have successfully connected to your environment by running the command.<\/p>\n

Command: <\/strong>pac org who<\/strong><\/p>\n

This will show you the organization details.<\/p>\n

Once successfully authenticated now we need to download the portal data into our system so that we can work offline into our portal and then upload it back to cloud.<\/p>\n

To download the Power Apps portal data we need to run the below commands.<\/p>\n

Command: pac paportal list<\/strong><\/p>\n

This will show you the listing of portal websites and website ids into your connected environment. The WebsiteId will be used in the command to download the Portal data.<\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

Command: pac paportal download –path “<Directory Path><\/em>” –webSiteId <Portal WebsiteId><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n

pac paportal download –path “E:\\Sam\\PowerAppsCLI” –webSiteId d78574f9-20c3-4dcc-8d8d-85cf5b7ac141<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Perform<\/a><\/p>\n

Once it is downloaded, all portal data can be seen in the folder and since we have already opened the folder in our VS Code we just need to refresh it.<\/p>\n

Now to create new custom webpage we need to know things we required to update.<\/p>\n