Unlock the full potential of Power Apps to create and manage powerful, custom canvas applications that can revolutionize the way you interact with your data. This comprehensive course guides learners through the essentials of starting with Power Apps, customizing apps, building user interfaces, and connecting to external data sources. By the end of the course, you'll be proficient in publishing, sharing, and maintaining your apps, ensuring they meet the needs of your organization.
Designed for those with a background in application development and data manipulation, this course combines practical exercises with theoretical knowledge. You'll gain hands-on experience in creating and refining apps, making data-driven decisions, and optimizing your app's performance and user experience. Join us to enhance your skills and make a significant impact in your professional environment.
Audience Profile
This course is ideal for application developers, IT professionals, and business analysts who are involved in data management and application development. It is also suitable for individuals seeking to enhance their skills in creating custom business applications using Power Apps.
Prerequisites
You should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.
Course Outline
Module 1: Get started with Power Apps canvas apps
- Start Power Apps
- Exercise - Create your first app in Power Apps
- Power Apps data sources
- Exercise - Create an app from Excel using Copilot
- Use Power Apps with Power Automate and Power BI
- Designing a Power Apps app
Module 2: Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
- Improve your app by making basic customizations
- Explore controls and screens in canvas apps
- Exercise - Introduction to formulas in canvas apps
- Exercise - Create basic screen navigation for a canvas app
Module 3: How to build the User Interface in a canvas app in Power Apps
- 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
Module 4: Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app
- 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
Module 5: Write data in a Power Apps canvas app
- Form modes
- Adding and customizing an Edit form
- Submit your form
- Special properties
- Exercise- Working with forms
Module 6: Publish, share, and maintain a canvas app
- Exercise - Publish your app
- Exercise - Share your app
- Exercise - Maintain your app
- Application lifecycle management
- Prepare
- Exercise - Create a canvas app that connects to a data source
