Portals support for Power Apps CLI (public preview)
Power Apps CLI tooling is the first step toward a comprehensive application life-cycle management (ALM) story where the enterprise developers and ISVs can create, build, debug, and publish their extensions and customizations quickly and efficiently. More information: What is Microsoft Power Apps CLI?
With this feature, Microsoft Power Apps portals supports Power Apps CLI to enable CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) of portal configuration. You can now check-in the portal configuration to source control and move portal configuration to any environment using Power Apps CLI.
Preview capabilities
The feature provides the following capabilities during this public preview:
- List all portal websites from the connected Dataverse environment
- Download portal website content
- Upload portal website content
How to install Power Apps CLI?
For a step-by-step instructions, please refer to Install Power Apps CLI.
After installing Power Apps CLI, open a command-prompt and run pac to verify that the output contains “paportal” – the command for Power Apps portals.
Power Apps CLI commands for portals
Power Apps CLI command for portals is “paportal”.
The following sections provides additional details about different properties of “paportal” command.
Command: list
Lists all portal websites from the current Microsoft Dataverse environment.
Example
pac paportal list
Command: download
Download portal website content from the current Dataverse environment.
Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| –path | Path where the website content will be downloaded (alias: -p). |
| –webSiteId | Portal website id to download (alias: -id). |
| –overwrite | (Optional) true – to overwrite existing content, false – to fail if the folder already has website content (alias: -o). |
Example
pac paportal download –path “C:\portals” –webSiteId f88b70cc-580b-4f1a-87c3-41debefeb902
Command: upload
Upload portal website content to the current Dataverse environment.
Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| –path | Path where the website content is stored (alias: -p). |
Example
pac paportal upload –path “C:\portals\starter-portal”
Learn more
Overview Video
Your feedback will help us continue to build on and improve the capabilities of this feature. We want to hear from you!
See documentation here for detailed overview.
Thank you,
Neeraj Nandwana
