Category Archives: Power Platform

Implementing GC Web (government of Canada) theme. Part 4: web template component for GC Web tables

In the previous post of these series, I’ve talked about lookup localizations, and we’ll get back to the topic of localizations a bit later, but, right now, let’s see what can be done about custom lists. GC Web does have a component for this: https://wet-boew.github.io/GCWeb/common/tables/table-en.html Which is using DataTables plugin So, just to illustrate, here is what that component… Read More »

Snippet rendering in Power Pages (again) – there is more to it

I love subtle differences in how various features work. They make my life miserable sometimes, but they also give me some advantage. I can even beat copilots… since how would AI know about such things? I blogged about snippets rendering recently: https://www.itaintboring.com/power-platform/power-pages-snippet-rendering-3-options-3-different-html-outputs/ Turned out there is more to it. Look at the liquid below and look… Read More »

Implementing GC Web (government of Canada) theme. Part 3: adding lookup localizations

It’s the third part of these series, and I’m assuming you’ve at least looked at the first two, since this is where I talked about how to enable GC Web for Power Pages, and, also, about how to configure some of the language-specific features once the theme has been “enabled”. Let’s talk about lookup localizations in this post.… Read More »

Power pages snippet rendering – 3 options, 3 different HTML outputs

As described on Microsoft learning, there are 3 ways we can render snippets in Power Pages: A developer can place a snippet using Liquid: {{ snippets[“<>”] }}, {% editable snippets ‘<>’ %}, or {% include ‘snippet’ snippet_name:'<>’ %}. Customize content by using content snippets | Microsoft Learn It looks like it’s more or less interchangeable,… Read More »