Power Apps: Introduction for End Users

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This Power Apps and Power Automate class is our most popular courses. A green flag beside a date on the right means that a session has met the minimum enrollment levels and is running. However, it is common for dates for this course to fill weeks in advance. Even if a date has a green flag, you might not be able to get into that session if it is full. To avoid disappointment, it is best to register for this class at least three weeks in advance.

Overview

• Microsoft Power Platform
• Learn about the components of Microsoft Power Platform, the business value for customers, and how the technology works with other Microsoft products.

Learning objectives

In this course, you will:

• Examine Microsoft Power Platform.
• Review using Microsoft Dataverse to organize business data.
• Examine how Power Platform works together with Microsoft 365 apps and services.
• Explore solutions using Power Platform Microsoft Teams.
• Examine Power Apps.
• Explore canvas applications.
• Explore model-driven applications.
• Differentiate between canvas and model-driven applications.
• Build a basic canvas app.
• Build a basic model-driven app.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with OneDrive, SharePoint, and Excel.

Course Outline

Introduction to Power Apps

• Power Apps building blocks
• Exercise - Create your first app in Power Apps
• Ways to build Power Apps
• Power Apps related technologies
• Additional Power Apps related technologies
• Designing a Power Apps app

Power Apps Basics

• Learn about the value and capabilities of Microsoft Power Apps and ways citizen and professional developers use this technology to build simple applications for their businesses.
• Describe Power Apps
• Explore canvas applications
• Explore model-driven applications
• Differentiate between canvas apps and model-driven apps
• Build a basic canvas app
• Exercise: Build a canvas app
• Build a basic model-driven app
• Exercise: Build a basic model-driven app

Create a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Do you want to create apps to help make your business more efficient? Then this path is for you. It introduces you to Power Apps, helps you create and customize an app, and then manage and distribute it.

Get started with Power Apps canvas apps

• Use basic formulas to make better Power Apps canvas apps
• Do you want to use formulas to improve functionality and change a behavior in your Power Apps canvas app? This learning path can help you accomplish your goal.

Create Formulas to Change Properties in a Canvas App

• Want to enhance or customize your Power Apps canvas app? You can use easy-to-write formulas to make changes in your app that include changing the format or position of controls, do simple math calculations, or implement conditional formatting in your design.
• Formulas Overview
• Use a formula to modify the format of controls
• Use formulas to perform calculations
• Use a control to modify the property of other controls
• Conditional formatting
• Functions for validating data

Create an Expense Report App from Start to Finish in Power Apps

• Learn how to build an expense report app from start to finish. In this learning path, you will explore activities such as transforming a business process into an app, creating a data model, and sharing the app. You will also learn about the logic used throughout the application lifecycle. Learning the reasoning behind key decisions will help you better understand how the expense report app works. You can apply this knowledge to any app that you create in the future.

Transform a Business Process to a Canvas App

• A difficult aspect of becoming a maker in Microsoft Power Platform is knowing how to start with your company's existing data and translate it into a canvas app. This module will help you get into the mindset of a Power Apps maker and start thinking of a solution.
• Introduction to the complete canvas app solution
• Translate the current Excel solution to a new data model