Microsoft Power Apps

Duration: 1 Day

Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, connectors, and a data platform that provides you with an opportunity to build custom apps for your business needs. This 1-day course explores the basic building blocks and allows you to create your own Apps and understand how to develop your skills to the next level.

Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge

As this is an Introduction course, no previous experience with Power Apps is required. A working knowledge of connecting to data sources and manipulating data would be helpful. A good knowledge of formulas and functions in applications such as Excel would be an advantage.

Course Outline

Part 1 – Power Apps Essentials

What is Power Apps?

The Power Apps environment Power Apps Building Blocks

Part 2 – Creating Apps

Environments

Apps – Types, templates, etc.

Creating an App from scratch – planning the objectives

Part 3 – Creating Screens

Creating, renaming

Navigating

Part 4 – Basic Controls

Icons

Text labels

Text inputs, Combo Boxes and Dropdowns

Shapes and images

Part 5 - Properties

Setting properties

Introduction to Power Fx

Advanced Properties

Part 6 – Working with Data

Data sources

Connecting and configuring

Controls that use connected data

Part 7 – Components and Themes

Creating components

Themes, colours and backgrounds