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 building canvas apps with Microsoft Power Platform .

In this course, you'll learn how to create your own data model and canvas app to support a scenario for a fictional company. You'll be provided with high-level specifications for the custom tables, columns, and canvas apps required to complete this project.

Intermediate - Power Apps - App Builder - Custom App Development

Course aimed at

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

PL-7001 Training Objectives

• Create canvas apps from scratch: You'll learn how to design and build custom apps that support specific business scenarios.
• Connecting Apps to Data Sources: You'll learn how to connect your apps to various data sources to capture and manipulate real-time insights.
• Configure and customize the user interface: You will learn how to customize your applications' interface, including themes, icons, images, and controls.
  Working with External Data: You'll master integrating external data into your canvas apps.
• Publish and Share Apps: You'll learn how to save, publish, and share your apps with other users within your organization.

PL-7001 Course Content

Module 1: Introduction to Power Apps canvas apps

• Introduction to Power Apps
  
• Launch Power Apps
  
• Exercise: Create your first app 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 app

Module 2: Customizing a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Improve your application with basic customizations
  
• Explore controls and screens in canvas apps
  
• Exercise: Introduction to formulas in canvas apps
  
• Exercise: Creating Basic Screen Navigation for a Canvas App

Module 3: Creating the UI in a Canvas App in Power Apps

• Use themes to quickly change the look of your app
  
• Customize a control with your branding
  
• Icons
• Images
  
• Personalization
  
• Create for phones or tablets
  
• Exercise: Creating and adjusting a user interface for a new canvas app

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

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

Module 5: Writing data to a Power Apps canvas app

• 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 App

• Exercise: Publishing an application
  
• Exercise: Sharing an application
  
• Exercise: Maintaining the application
  
• Application Lifecycle Management

Module 7: Guided Project: Create and Manage Canvas Apps with Power Apps

• Preparation
  
• Exercise: Create a canvas app 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 building canvas apps with the Microsoft Power Platform.

Applied Skills: Explore all credentials in one guide