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Part of what I love so much about Liquid is that you can achieve a lot with very little code – and the code is easy to read, even for non-programmers like me!

Ready to give liquid templating a go but not sure where to start? Exciting times!… and good news, you’re in the right place. This is going to be an awesome journey.

In this quick tip, we’ll see how to check whether a given date is earlier than today’s date (or another specific date).

You’re working on some new functionality (or even just some content) for a public site and you want to preview it in situ on the portal.

In this post, you’ll see how to build a Bootstrap carousel (aka slider), populated with data from a Dataverse table.

Our goal here is to present contacts from different partners logging into the portal with personalised branding specific to their account / the partner they work for.

So you might be wondering why would we use fetch XML to query a single record when we’ve got the super easy to use entities object?

If you’ve used Dataverse, Model Driven Apps or Dynamics CRM / CE / Sales for any period of time, you’re likely already familiar with Advanced Find – the old reliable UI…

This simple URL format is all we need to output multimedia or to provide download links.

If you’ve navigated around a portal before, maybe drilling through from a list to a form – you’ll likely have noticed the URL contains a unique identifier, the GUID of the record.

Why are if statements important? Conditions allow us to plan for different scenarios and cater for the inevitable data gaps.

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:

The relatively new Rich Text Editor control in Dataverse / Dynamics 365 / Model Driven Apps is a very welcome addition, especially for Power Pages / portal projects that are heavy on content management.

You may be asking why upload using the API when we can now use a basic form or multistep form to upload to file columns?

This post is dedicated to the amazing Megan V Walker – the selfless MVW MVP whose epic content got me started on my portal customisation journey.

Basic example: Output a list Intermediate example: Output a table Advanced example: Output JSON to feed the jAudio plugin

Please note that this has been superseded by a newer, better approach since the addition of the new File and Image columns in Dataverse.