Back in Power Apps, in order to see the templates for portals you have to have Dynamics 365 apps enabled. Otherwise you will only see the portal from blank option. Here are the different portal templates available: Community Portal, Customer Self-Service Portal, Employee Self-Service Portal, Partner Portal and Customer Portal. To create one, simply select the template you want to create. Follow the simple instructions and you'll have a nice head start on creating your first portal. But since you might not have Dynamics 365 right now, I'll be showing you how to create and customize various aspects of portals as we build one from scratch.

I'll select portal from blank, we'll call our portal, you guessed it, First Portal. We'll also need to give it its own address. Let's simply say FirstPortalDemo and check to make sure this address isn't in use. Once inside of Power Apps Portal designer, you can see that it's somewhat similar to Canvas Apps. Over here on the left, I can customize pages, components, themes and templates. As you might see, our portal is broken up into different sections that can be customized. To change text, for example, I can simply double-click inside of this text component and change Hey to Hello. To apply a theme to our portal, we can select our design icon. It is possible to upload Custom CSS but this will be covered in other courses. But know that this can add a lot more customization as far as design goes to your portal. For now, let's enable basic theme and select one of these themes we have to choose from. In the next lecture, we'll go over common portal customizations.