Build custom HTML forms in Power Pages

 Custom HTML forms in Power Pages

One of the features of Power Pages is the ability to use a model-driven app Dataverse form as a foundation to build create, edit, and read-only forms on Power Pages.

The form designer in the Data workspace is actually the same designer used for model-driven apps. what you see is a model-driven app version and not a Power Pages version, or rather a ‘what you see is a model-driven form and what you will get is a Power Pages form’ (WYSIAMDFAWYWGIAPPF) Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it?

The other aspect is if you want to customize or configure the form beyond the 2 or 3 column layout, your options are limited.

Using these technologies, you can create a fully customized HTML form that you can use to read, write, and update Microsoft Dataverse information, and provide you with the full flexibility to modify and configure the form as you see fit, without having to work with the model-driven app constraints.

This pro-code approach may help with scenarios that have unique requirements for adding information to Dataverse.

The steps to build a form for creating new records break down like this:

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