Hi,
We are building an access request app in which employees can submit office visit requests during lock downs. We have successfully built a canvas app for employees in which they are able to select visit date and app suggests available visit slots to them.
Now we want to build the same functionality for external visitors and for that we have chosen Powerapps portals since it supports anonymous users. Now we are stuck because power apps portals have a totally different architecture than power apps. We are unsure how and where to implement the logic for generating visit time slots that visitor can select. For canvas app all of our data is being stored in SharePoint Lists. My questions are:
Any help and guidance is truly appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi, design/architectural decisions are always tricky and it's very difficult to plan ahead.
If you need external access, Portals can be a great option, but Portals relies very much on Dataverse (CDS/D365), you don't need to worry about having a full D365 in place, but you need to know that the Portals architecture depends on it.
Anyways, answering to your questions:
All those should be possible, but I can't say you would leverage any existing Canvas App code.. unless you want to keep Canvas for internal users, and use Portals for external.. either way you should centralize everything into a single database (Dataverse would probably be the best option)
Power Apps Portals Super User
Hi, design/architectural decisions are always tricky and it's very difficult to plan ahead.
If you need external access, Portals can be a great option, but Portals relies very much on Dataverse (CDS/D365), you don't need to worry about having a full D365 in place, but you need to know that the Portals architecture depends on it.
Anyways, answering to your questions:
All those should be possible, but I can't say you would leverage any existing Canvas App code.. unless you want to keep Canvas for internal users, and use Portals for external.. either way you should centralize everything into a single database (Dataverse would probably be the best option)
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