Businesses that have dynamics 365 or
a custom Microsoft data verse solution already in place can quickly build
portals that are more secure and build their entire website. Let's explore how to get started
with power apps portals. A power apps portal is not automatically
provisioned when a new data verse environment is created, you will
need to provision a power apps portal and determine the name, default URL,
language and template. To provision a portal you must be
assigned the system administrator role of the Microsoft data versus environment
that is selected for the portal. When provisioning a power apps portal
he most important choices to consider are the audience, workload and choosing
a specific portal template that would best align with the business requirements. Several portal templates are available
that can be provisioned. These templates will accelerate
the configuration of portals based on the intended audience and workload. If you build a custom business application
using Microsoft data verse without dynamics 365 apps enabled, your only
choice is the portal from blank option. If you are using Microsoft,
Dynamics 365 apps such as Dynamics 365 sales or
dynamics 365 service. You have a choice of five
additional portal templates. These include the community portal,
customer self service, portal employee, self service portal,
partner portal and customer portal, which is also referred to as dynamics
365 supply chain management. Specific features and
components of a specific starter portal can be added to another
starter portal as needed. Make sure that you define the type of
audience who will visit the new portal, the audience will determine which
options of portal you will be given. Now let's see what steps you need to
follow to provision a starter portal, please take note that only one power
apps portal can be provisioned for each Microsoft data verse environment. First go to make.powerapps.com and
sign in with your organizational account. Before you do anything
else it is important to check that you're working
in the correct environment. You can do this by checking the upper
right corner of the screen. If you need to change the environment,
click the current environment to open the environments pain where you can
select the correct environment. To view options for creating a new app, select create from
the navigation pane on the left. In the start from section, select blank
app, next select blank website portal app. If you have dynamics 365 apps deployed in
your Microsoft data verse environment. Additional portal templates such
as customer self service will be available click create to open
the portal from blank window. Here you can provide a name for
the portal. You must provide a unique address or
URL for the portal. You'll notice that .powerappsportal.com
is already filled in. This unique address can be used to
share your app with users outside the organization. Now select a language for
your app from the dropdown menu. Finally click create to start
the portal provisioning process, you'll see a notification message to
inform you that provisioning has begun. Once the portal provisioning is complete,
the portal will appear in the apps list. The app type column will show
that your app is a portal. Now select more options and click browse
to open the portal website and that's it. You should now have a more detailed
picture of how to get started with provisioning a power apps portal and the different template
options available to you. Keep going to find out which portal
templates will work best for your audiences,
as well as the core components of portals.