
Why Dataverse’s Image and File columns are a big deal for Power Pages / portal projects
I’ve been doing quite a lot of #PowerPages work this quarter leveraging Dataverse’s File and Image column types.
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I’ve been doing quite a lot of #PowerPages work this quarter leveraging Dataverse’s File and Image column types.




This post-is a follow-up / alternative perspective to my previous post, Portal security: table permissions and web roles – the theory




This is something I once approached with JavaScript on load of the list.




First of all, I love the idea of Dataverse image columns in Power Pages.




This is something I once approached with JavaScript on load of the list.

This tip originated from a request for help on LinkedIn.

All doable with this trick:) Bonus; This works regardless of whether you’re on Bootstrap 3 or 5, and works across all the starter templates I’ve tried it with…

Mark Christie gave me an interesting challenge for the Scottish Summit build – with Scottish Summit championing inclusion and equality, let’s not be elitist about which speakers we feature.

For the impatient among you, here’s the final code for you to steal / test drive:)

Here’s a static example of the JSON before we make dynamic and loop over our advanced find results:




Agentic builds, code sites and SPAs
Templates, FetchXML, objects and filters
CRUD from the browser, safely
Image and file columns, uploads, media
Theming, layout, Bootstrap components
jQuery, libraries and integrations
Forms, lists and metadata — no code
Web roles and table permissions
I take on a handful of complex Power Pages projects each quarter — bespoke UX, tricky integrations, design systems.
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