What is admin and maker portals
In addition to the Power Platform admin center, there are several different administrative experiences that can be used as part of Power Platform. Each experience is designed based on the product you’re working with. For example, the primary experience used to make applications and manage the Dataverse instance associated with an environment is the Power Apps maker portal (Https://make.powerapps.com).
In the image, you can see an example of the maker portal displaying the different model and canvas applications that are currently deployed to this environment.
The Power Apps maker portal also provides for the following items:
- Tables: Allows you to manage the Microsoft Dataverse tables deployed in this environment. You can easily create new tables and perform tasks such as modifying the different forms, views, and relationships in the Dataverse instance.
- Connections: Allows you to manage the connections being used by apps in this environment.
- Flows: Provides access to any flows created for this environment.
- Chatbots: Provides access to any chatbots created for this environment.
- AI Models: Provides access to AI builder models for this environment.
- Solutions: Provides access to any Solutions deployed to this environment.
- Cards: Provides access to Cards created in this environment.
- Choices: Allows you to manage the choice columns in this environment.
- Connections: Allows you to manage the connectors used in this environment.
- Dataflows: Provides access to Dataflows used in this environment.
- Power Platform: Provides access to other Power Platform Maker portals.
Items in the middle section can be pinned and displayed as needed. For example, if your organization isn’t doing anything with Cards, you can choose to not display the middle section. If you access it, you can select more items, which are then displayed displayed.
Each of the primary Power Platform components has a corresponding maker portal. The table provides a list of the different maker portals available.Expand table
| Product | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Power Automate | https://make.powerautomate.com | Used to create and manage the Cloud and Desktop flows deployed. |
| Power BI | https://app.powerbi.com | Used to create and manage Power BI reports and dashboards. |
| Power Pages | https://make.powerpages.microsoft.com | Used to create modern, secure business websites that can be used by employees and customers. |
| Microsoft Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents) | https://web.powerva.microsoft.com | Used to create intelligent copilots that can be used by employees and customers. |
Explore the different portals
Now that we’e talked about the different administrative experiences available, let’s see how to work with them. In the following video, we walk through some of the basic elements in the Power Platform admin center and introduce some of the other maker portals available.