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Andrew Elans
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Power Pages: how to get back .../_services/about

When building Power Pages, there is a simple method to clear portal cache / config data when something is changed but not synced in. As explained here, you can navigate to <website_path>/_services/about and click the two provided settings that look like this:

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To see these buttons you need to sign in to the website with a user that is assigned the administrator webrole.

When deleting/editing Power Pages components, I experience sometimes, still having the Administrator webrole, that the buttons are gone like this:

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So how to get them back?

Objects that influence visibility of these buttons

Go to Power Apps -> Your Env -> Apps -> All -> find Power Pages Management app -> click Play -> verify the following object:

Contacts

Select Contacts -> select your user -> select view Portal Contact (Enhanced) on top close to the caption with your user name -> scroll down and find section Web Roles -> make sure that the Administrator role is assigned.

Website Access Permissions

Select Website Access Permissions -> open Administrative permissions for Blank Template (provisioned by the portal) -> check that all 4 permissions are enabled in the Permissions section -> open Web Roles tab here -> make sure that Administrators are added.

Web Roles

Select Web Roles -> Administrators -> check that Authenticated Users Role is No and Anonymous Users Role is No

  • If something is Yes, either of the user roles will have access to this page.

Objects that do not influence the buttons visibility

For the SPA, I prefer to clean-up and remove unnecessary objects, so these can be deleted/deactivated as they do not impact visibility of the Clear cache and Clear config buttons.

  • Web Page Access Control Rules -> Grant Change to Administrators

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