PL-7001: Create and Manage Canvas Apps with Power Apps

Course PL-7001: Create and Manage Canvas Apps with Power Apps

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, students must demonstrate the ability to solve business problems by creating canvas apps with Microsoft Power Platform .

In this course, you will learn to create your own data model and canvas application to support a scenario for a fictitious company. You will be provided with high-level specifications regarding the custom tables, columns, and canvas applications needed to complete this project.

Intermediate - Power Apps - App Builder - Custom App Development

Course aimed at

• App developers: Professionals looking to create custom solutions using Power Apps.
• Business users: People who want to improve their business processes by creating applications without needing advanced programming knowledge.
• IT Professionals: Those interested in learning how to manage and maintain canvas applications within an organization.

Objectives of the PL-7001 training

• Create canvas apps from scratch: You will learn to design and build custom apps that support specific business scenarios.
• Connecting applications to data sources: You will discover how to connect your applications to various data sources to obtain and manipulate information in real time.
• Configure and customize the user interface: You will learn how to customize the interface of your applications, including themes, icons, images, and controls.
  Working with external data: You will master integrating external data into your canvas applications.
• Publish and share apps: You will learn how to save, publish, and share your apps with other users within your organization.

Course content PL-7001

Module 1: Introduction to Power Apps Canvas Applications

• Introduction to Power Apps
  
• Launch Power Apps
  
• Exercise: Create your first application in Power Apps
  
• Power Apps data sources
  
• Exercise: Create an application from Excel using Copilot
  
• Use Power Apps with Power Automate and Power BI
  
• Design a Power Apps application

Module 2: Customizing a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Improve your application through basic customizations
  
• Explore controls and screens in canvas applications
  
• Exercise: Introduction to formulas in canvas applications
  
• Exercise: Create a basic screen navigation for a canvas application

Module 3: Creating the user interface in a canvas application in Power Apps

• Use themes to quickly change the app's appearance
  
• Personalize a controller with your brand
  
• Icons
• Images
  
• Personalization
  
• Create for phones or tablets
  
• Exercise: Create and adjust a user interface for a new canvas application

Module 4: Working with external data in a Power Apps canvas application

• General information about data sources
  
• Add a data source
  
• Add Office 365 users to your application
  
• Visualize data in a gallery and interact with it
  
• Move data between collections and data sources using Collect
  
• Exercise: Working with external data in a canvas application

Module 5: Writing data to a Power Apps canvas application

• Introduction to forms
  
• Form modes
  
• Add and customize an Edit form
  
• Submit the form
  
• Special properties
  
• Exercise: Working with forms

Module 6: Publishing, sharing, and maintaining a canvas application

• Exercise: Publishing an application
  
• Exercise: Share an application
  
• Exercise: Perform application maintenance
  
• Application lifecycle management

Module 7: Guided Project: Creating and Managing Canvas Apps with Power Apps

• Preparation
  
• Exercise: Create a canvas application that connects to a data source

Prerequisites

It is recommended to have an understanding of application development, writing formulas, such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.

Language

• Course: English / Spanish
  
• Labs: English / Spanish

Microsoft Applied Skills

This course is part of the Microsoft Applied Skills Credentials.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, students must demonstrate the ability to solve business problems by creating canvas apps with Microsoft Power Platform.

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