- Learn how Power Apps can make your business more efficient and streamline your processes.
This module explains how to:
- Describe what canvas apps are and how they differ from other Power Apps app types.
- Navigate the Power Apps maker portal and identify key canvas app creation options.
- Connect a canvas app to a data source and use gallery and form controls to display and edit data.
- Build a canvas app from an Excel workbook using both the template path and a blank canvas.
- Use Copilot to generate a canvas app from an uploaded file.
- This module takes the learner to the next level in app development by teaching how to customize the app by adding controls, images, and logic.
In this module, you will:
- Customize gallery and form controls to display and edit data the way your users need it.
- Build screen navigation using Power Fx Navigate() and Back() formulas.
- Apply Power Fx formulas to control appearance, filter data, and handle errors.
- Add AI capabilities to your app using Microsoft 365 Copilot controls.
- Create named formulas, user-defined functions, and reusable component libraries.
- In this module, learners will learn how to build UI for their app including theming, icons, images, personalization, form factors, and controls.
In this module, you will:
- 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.
- In this module, learners do an in-depth exploration of navigation in Power Apps.
In this module, you will:
- Gain a greater understanding of the Navigate and Back functions.
- Learn how to use screen transitions in an app.
- Learn how to preview and modify an app to fit various form factors.
- Gain hands-on experience in building navigations inside an app.
- Learn how to use other controls for app navigation.
- Manage app versions, app sharing, and environments in Power Apps.
In this module, you will:
- Learn how to view and restore app versions.
- Explore how to share an app, including permissions and notifications.
- Learn about what environments are, how to create them, and how to manage security.
- Find more information about Power Apps.
- Learn about building a mobile-optimized app from Power Apps.
In this module, you:
- Learn about the concept of a mobile-optimized application.
- Discover the components of a mobile-optimized canvas app.
- Build a mobile-optimized canvas app.
- Review the performance considerations in a canvas app.
- Monitor the performance of a canvas app.
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Syllabus
- Get started with Power Apps canvas apps
- 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
- Summary
- Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
- Introduction
- Improve your app by making basic customizations
- Explore controls and screens in canvas apps
- Apply Power Fx formulas to canvas app controls
- Work with Power Fx formulas in canvas apps
- Create screen navigation in a canvas app
- Build reusable components and formulas in canvas apps
- Check your knowledge
- Summary
- 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 assessment
- Summary
- Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps
- Understanding navigation
- The Navigate and Back functions
- More ways to use the Navigate function
- Exercise - App navigation practice
- Module assessment
- Summary
- Manage apps in Power Apps
- Introduction
- Exercise - Manage app versions in Power Apps
- Exercise - Share apps in Power Apps
- Exercise - Understand environments in Power Apps
- Review of managing Power Apps
- Check your knowledge
- Summary
- Build a mobile-optimized app from Power Apps
- Introduction
- Learn about mobile-optimized apps
- Identify components to make a canvas app mobile-optimized
- Create a mobile-optimized app that uses responsive designs
- Identify performance considerations for a mobile-optimized canvas app
- Check your knowledge
- Summary