Create a Dataverse starter portal
Note
Effective October 12, 2022, Power Apps portals is Power Pages. More information: Microsoft Power Pages is now generally available (blog)
We will soon migrate and merge the Power Apps portals documentation with Power Pages documentation.
With the capability to build a portal in Power Apps, you can create a website for external and internal users enabling them to interact with data stored in Microsoft Dataverse.
Some of the benefits of creating a Power Apps portal:
Because the data is stored in Dataverse, you don't need to create a connection from Power Apps as you do with data sources such as SharePoint, customer engagement apps (such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service), or Salesforce. You need only to specify the tables that you want to show or manage in the portal.
You can design the portal through the WYSIWYG Power Apps portals Studio by adding and configuring components on the webpages.
You can create a portal either in a new environment or in your existing environment.
If you choose to create your portal in a new environment using the Create new environment link, the required portal pre-requisites such as tables, data, and a starter portal template are installed when the environment is created. In this method, the portal is provisioned in a few minutes.
If you choose to create your portal in an existing environment without portal pre-requisites, the pre-requisites are installed first and then the portal is created. In this method, the portal provisioning can take some time and you’ll be notified when the portal is provisioned.
Based on the selected environment in Power Apps, you can create a Dataverse starter portal or a portal in an environment containing customer engagement apps (such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service).
Note
- There can be up to fifty portals of each type created in an environment. For more information, go to creating additional portals.
- When you create a portal, a few solutions are installed and sample data is imported.
More information on working with environments: Environments overview
More information on available portal templates: Portal templates
To create a portal:
Tip
To learn about the roles required to create a portal, read Admin roles required for portal administrative tasks.
Sign in to Power Apps.
Under Create your app, select Blank app.
Select Create from the Blank website option.
If the selected environment doesn't contain portal pre-requisites, a message is displayed in the Portal from blank window suggesting you select another environment or create a new one.
If you choose to continue with the current environment, enter the required information in the window as mentioned in the following steps. If you choose to create a new environment, see Create new environment.
In the Portal from blank window, enter a name for the portal and address for the website, and select a language from the drop-down list.
Tip
To create a portal using a different language, you must first enable the language in the environment so that it becomes available in the language drop-down list.
(Optional) To create the portal using an existing website record, check the box use data from existing website record, and then select the website record that you want to use. More information: Create new portal using migrated data
When you're done, select Create.
After you select Create, the portal will begin provisioning and the provisioning status is displayed through notifications.
If you've created your portal in the environment that doesn't have portal pre-requisites installed, the provisioning status is also displayed in the grid:
After the portal is provisioned successfully, the status is updated and the portal is displayed in the grid:
To edit the portal in Power Apps portals Studio, see Edit a portal.
Note
- If you don't have sufficient privileges to provision a portal, an error is displayed. You must have the System Administrator role in Dataverse to create a portal. You must also have the Access Mode set to Read-Write under Client Access License (CAL) Information in the user record.
- If you have purchased an older portal add-on, and want to provision a portal using the add-on, you must go to the Dynamics 365 Administration Center page. More information: Provision a portal using the older portal add-on
- If you have provisioned a portal using the older portal add-on, you can still customize and manage it from make.powerapps.com.
- Provisioning portals from make.powerapps.com does not consume the older portal add-ons. Also, these portals are not listed under the Applications tab on the Dynamics 365 Administration Center page.
- A Dataverse starter portal cannot be created from the Dynamics 365 Administration Center page.
Portal provisioning notifications
After you select Create, the portal will begin provisioning and the provisioning status is displayed through notifications.
Notification as a toast
The following notification is displayed when you select Create to provision the portal.
Notifications in the Notifications pane
Once the provisioning request is successfully placed, the following notifications are displayed in the Notification pane.
Notification shown for provisioning in progress.
Notification shown for provisioning successfully completed.
If the portal provisioning fails, the notifications are displayed similarly.
Notifications via emails
Once the provisioning request is successfully placed, a confirmation email notification is sent to the user creating the portal. Also, an email is sent to the user after the portal provisioning is completed.
Next steps
See also
Common problems and resolutions while creating a portal
Control portal creation in a tenant
Create additional portals in an environment
Administer Power Apps portals
Access Dataverse in Power Apps portals
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