There are mainly three types of applications that you can create using the Power Platform: Canvas Apps, Model Driven Apps, and Pages.
Pages is the type of application that you can create for external users, for example self service web portals where your customers can check the status of their tickets, or browse through your products and services catalog.
A Power Apps Page is an external-facing website that allows your users to access the content anonymously or to register and sign-in using a variety of identities, from external providers, like Facebook, Google, Linkedin, Microsoft, etc.
Power App Pages follow the same philosophy of the rest of the platform, and provides a very powerful combination of low or no-coding configuration style with simple extensibility capabilities.
Within Power Apps Pages, you can create your app starting from a template, with pre-existing content, and start configuring it. The existing templates are: Customer Self-Service, Partner Portal, Employee self-service and Community Portal.
These capabilities feature a revamped end-to-end experience for makers to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content. Makers can reuse page designs through templates, add forms and views to display key data from Dataverse, and publish to users.
Probably the greatest capability from Pages is to be able to publish information from your Dataverse environments, with a few clicks of configuration. This means that you can expose your data to your external users.
But with great powers comes greater responsibility. The fact that you can expose the internal data it doesn’t mean that it has to be unsafe. The platform provides various levels of security embedded right within the core, that allows to safely decide what information is public and what should remain private.
More Information:
- Power Apps pages and what they can do for you – Learn | Microsoft Docs
- What is Microsoft Dataverse?
- What is Power Automate?
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