PL-7001: Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps
About this Course
Create your own data model and canvas app to support a scenario for a fictional company. You’re provided high-level specifications on the custom tables, columns and canvas app needed to complete this project.
Audience Profile
Candidates for this credential should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.
At Course Completion
Outline
Get started with Power Apps canvas apps
This module introduces the learner to Power Apps. It starts with an introduction video briefly describing the “why” (case for Power Apps) and the “what” for what users can do with Power Apps. The units then take users through the “how” instilling in them the confidence that they can use Power Apps to interact with their data.
Lessons
- Start Power Apps
- Power Apps data sources
- Use Power Apps with Power Automate and Power BI
- Designing a Power Apps app
Exercise
- Create your first app in Power Apps
- Create an app from Excel using Copilot
Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
In this module, we'll show learners how to customize their app, a necessary skill for taking advantage of the capabilities of Power Apps. This unit builds upon the app produced in the first unit.
Lessons
- Improve your app by making basic customizations
- Explore controls and screens in canvas apps
Exercise
- Introduction to formulas in canvas apps
- Create basic screen navigation for a canvas app
How to build the User Interface in a canvas app in Power Apps
In this module, learners will learn how to build UI for their app including theming, icons, images, personalization, form factors and controls. In their learning path, thus far, learners have used basic controls with little to no customization. This unit shows how to make an app more personal and help it fit branding or personal requirements.
Lessons
- Use themes to quickly change the appearance of your app
- Brand a control
- Icons
- Images
- Personalization
- Build for phones or tablets
Exercise
- Create and adjust UI for a new canvas app
Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app
Do you need to connect an app to access data? Then this module is for you. It focuses on connecting your app to a data source.
Lessons
- Data-source overview
- Add a data source
- Add Office 365 users to your application
- Display and interact with your data in a gallery
- Move data between collections and data sources by using Collect
Exercise
- Work with external data in a canvas app
Write data in a Power Apps canvas app
Forms can be used to view, edit, and create records. This module demonstrates how to use forms to write data to your data source. Topics will include form setup, the different form modes, and how to configure a submit button.
Lessons
- Introduction to forms
- Form modes
- Adding and customizing an Edit form
- Submit your form
- Special properties
Exercise
- Working with forms
Publish, share, and maintain a canvas app
You've built your first app. Now, it's time to publish, share it with others, and maintain subsequent versions of the app.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Application lifecycle management
Exercise
- Publish your app
- Share your app
- Share your app
Guided Project - Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps
Create your own data model and canvas app to support a scenario for a fictional company. You're provided high-level specifications on the custom tables, columns and canvas app needed to complete this project.
Lessons
- Prepare
Exercise
- Create a canvas app that connects to a data source
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Basic data modeling, user experience design, requirements analysis, and process analysis skills.
- A personal growth mindset and are comfortable using technology to solve business problems.
- An understanding of the operational need and have a vision of the desired outcome. They approach problems with phased and iterative strategies.