PL-7001: 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.

At a glance

Level: Intermediate
Product: Power Apps
Audience/Role: App Maker
Subject: Custom app development

Prerequisites

You should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.

You will learn

How to

  • Create a canvas app from scratch
  • Connect a canvas app to a data source
  • Configure a gallery
  • Configure a details screen
  • Configure an input screen
  • Save and publish a canvas app

Course content

Get started with Power Apps canvas apps

  • Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient.
  • Use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps.
  • Build an app in Power Apps in different ways.
  • Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook.

Customize a canvas app in Power Apps

  • Change the layout of a gallery.
  • Change the data that a control portrays.
  • Modify a form control to show different data fields.
  • Learn about gallery and form controls.
  • Add a screen.
  • Learn how to modify label properties by using basic formulas.
  • Add labels.
  • Learn how to create basic screen navigation.

How to build the User Interface in a canvas app in Power Apps

  • 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.

Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app

  • Understand data sources for canvas apps in Power Apps.
  • Use the Collect function.

Write data in a Power Apps canvas app

  • Understand how to work with Forms in canvas apps
  • Configure a submit button to write data
  • Use and Understand the different form modes

Publish, share, and maintain a canvas app

  • Learn how to introduce the primary app build.
  • Discover how to launch future iterations of the app.
  • Learn how to manage versions and publish your app.

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.
In this module, you demonstrate your ability to:

  • Connect to data sources in canvas apps
  • Build canvas apps screens
  • Select appropriate assets and components
  • Add canvas app assets and components to screens

Prepare for your Applied Skills credential 


This one-day, instructor-led training is recommended as preparation for the assessment Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps.

Microsoft Applied Skills is a new scenario-based credential that proves your proficiency in skill sets specific to critical business problems, so you can make a bigger impact on your projects, your organization, and your career.