MS-PL7001: Create and Manage Canvas Apps with Power Apps

Course Code: MS-PL7001

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.

  • Duration: 1 Day
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Technology: Power Apps
  • Delivery Method: Instructor Led
  • Training Credits: NA

You should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.

There is no Associated certification & Exam for this course, however, there is an assessment to achieve your Applied Skills credential. (Assessment Link)

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Modules

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

- Introduction to Power 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.

- Check your knowledge.

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

- Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient.

- Use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps.

- Build an app in Power Apps in different ways.

- Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook.

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.

- Exercise - Create basic screen navigation for a canvas app.

- Check your knowledge.

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

- Change the layout of a gallery.

- Change the data that a control portrays.

- Modify a form control to show different data fields.

- Learn about gallery and form controls.

- Add a screen.

- Learn how to modify label properties by using basic formulas.

- Add labels.

- Learn how to create basic screen navigation.

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.

- Check your knowledge.

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

- Understand the basics of building the UI through themes, icons, control customization, and images.

- Use personalization in a canvas app.

- Learn how to preview and modify an app to fit different form factors.

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

- Introduction.

- 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.

- Check your knowledge.

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

- Understand data sources for canvas apps in Power Apps.

- Use the Collect function.

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.

- Exercise - Publish your app.

- Exercise - Share your app.

- Exercise - Maintain your app.

- Application lifecycle management.

- Check your knowledge.

In this module, you'll practice how to:

- Learn how to introduce the primary app build.

- Discover how to launch future iterations of the app.

- Learn how to manage versions and publish your app.

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

- Introduction.

- Prepare.

- Exercise - Create a canvas app that connects to a data source.

- Knowledge check.

In this module, you'll practice how to:

- Connect to data sources in canvas apps.

- Build canvas apps screens.

- Select appropriate assets and components.

- Add canvas app assets and components to screens.