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.

Course Outcome

By completing this course, participants will gain the following skills:

• Creating Canvas Apps: You’ll learn how to build canvas apps from scratch. This includes connecting to data sources, designing screens, selecting appropriate components, and adding them to your app.

• Customization: You’ll understand how to customize your app, including theming, icons, images, personalization, form factors, and controls.

• Publishing and Sharing: You’ll be able to publish and share your canvas apps, making them accessible to others within your organization.

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

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.

Lesson Title

• 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 02: 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.

Lesson Title

• 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 03: 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.

Lesson Title

• 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 new canvas app

Module 04: Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app

This module focuses on connecting your app to a data source.

Lesson Title

• 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

Module 05: 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.

Lesson Title

• Introduction to forms

• Form modes

• Adding and customizing an Edit form

• Submit your form

• Special properties

• Exercise: Working with forms

Module 06: Publish, share and maintain a canvas app

In this module, learners will publish, share, and maintain the current and subsequent versions of the app.

Lesson Title

• Introduction

• Exercise: Publish your app

• Exercise: Share your app

• Exercise: Maintain your app

• Application lifecycle management

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.