Create and manage webpages

Note

A webpage is a document that is identified by a unique URL in a website. It's one of the core objects of the website and builds a hierarchy of the website through parent and child relationships to other webpages.

Note

If you customize your portal using Power Apps portals Studio, the website users would notice a performance impact. We recommended you to do the changes during non-peak hours on a live portal.

Create webpage

  1. Edit the portal to open it in Power Apps portals Studio.

  2. From the command bar, select New page and either choose a page from Layouts or Fixed layouts.

    create a new webpage.

    Note

    • Creating a page using Layouts gives you the flexibility to edit the complete page. Fixed layouts contains the page templates that are installed as part of portal provisioning and the custom page templates created using the Portal Management app.
    • For the pages to be created using the Layouts option, a new Default studio template page template is installed.
    • If no fixed page layouts are visible when adding webpages in the portals Studio, they can be added using the Portal Management app.
  3. In the properties pane on the right side of the screen, enter the following information:

    • Name: Name of the page. This value is also used as the title of the page.

    • Partial URL: The URL path segment used to build the portal URL of this page.

    • Template: Page template used to render this page on the portal. If necessary, you can choose another template from the list.

      webpage properties.

The webpages you create are added and their hierarchy are displayed in the Pages and navigation pane. To view this pane, select Pages and navigation pages icon. from the toolbelt on the left side of the screen.

Let's say you've created a few webpages for your portal. The page hierarchy looks as follows:

pages pane.

The primary menu on the website is created automatically based on the hierarchy of the webpages. It's called the Default menu. You can also create a custom menu to display on the website. More information: Add a custom menu

website navigation.

If you're working with a portal created in an environment containing customer engagement apps (such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service), and you want the menu to be the same as page hierarchy, you must select Default from the Navigation Menu list.

Important

When Default navigation menu is selected, the new pages are added to the Default web link set. However, direct changes to the Default navigation menu using Manage web links is not supported.

Default navigation menu.

Manage webpage

  1. Edit the portal to open it in Power Apps portals Studio.

  2. Select Pages and navigation pages icon. from the toolbelt on the left side of the screen.

  3. Hover over the page you want to manage and select the Ellipsis button (…) for the webpage you want to manage. Alternately. you can right-click the page you want to manage.

  4. Select the required action from the context menu:

    • Hide in default menu: Hide the page from being displayed in the sitemap through default menu.

    • Show in default menu: Show the page in the sitemap through default menu.

    • Add a child page: Add a child page to the selected page. The child page inherits the page template of its parent page.

    • Move up: Move the page up in hierarchy.

    • Move down: Move the page down in hierarchy.

      Note

      Moving a page up or down is supported among the pages at the same level.

    • Promote subpage: Decrease the indent and make the child page at the level of the previous page in the hierarchy.

    • Make subpage: Increase the indent and make the page a child page of the previous page in the hierarchy.

    • Delete: Delete the page.

      webpage manage options.

Next steps

Customize webpages

See also

Work with templates
Work with themes