Use Power Platform for Custom & Automated Solutions

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Use Power Platform for Custom & Automated Solutions

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Beginner level

No prior experience required

9 hours to complete

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

67 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

9 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Construct and customize dynamic canvas apps to address specific business process challenges
Design model-driven apps using component-based architecture
Configure and secure PowerApps Portals for external users
Develop and implement automated application workflows using Microsoft Power Automate

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12 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 2 modules in this course

This course will teach you the Microsoft Power Platform to create applications that can solve real-world business problems. Starting with Power Apps, you'll learn to build simple canvas applications with user-friendly interface and customization options even if you don’t have a programming background. As the course progresses, you'll explore model-driven apps, where you can enhance and streamline the app development without the need for coding.

You'll then learn to use PowerApps Portals, which will allow users external to your organizations to login and interact with your application. The course will also cover using Microsoft Power Automate to automate common business workflows and reduce the time spent on repetitive, time-consuming tasks. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the skill to create applications that can automate business processes and improve business efficiency.

Power Apps allows businesses to create custom solutions for everyday problems. In this module, you will learn how to build and customize a canvas app from scratch, and to leverage Power Apps to create model-driven apps.

What's included

10 videos13 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt

10 videos Total 46 minutes

Introduction and learn basic elements 5 minutes
Build a canvas app: Create your account and install 4 minutes
Customize the app 7 minutes
Get started with functions and share an app 7 minutes
Introduction to model-driven apps 3 minutes
Design of model-driven apps 4 minutes
Business logic 3 minutes
Creating model-driven apps 8 minutes
Control security and share model-driven apps 4 minutes
Custom solutions module summary 3 minutes

13 readings Total 140 minutes

Generate and Explore the app 5 minutes
Exercise: Build your first canvas app 30 minutes
Practice using functions in Power Apps 5 minutes
Exercise: Practice using functions in Power Apps 30 minutes
Canvas app lesson summary 5 minutes
Canvas app additional resources 5 minutes
Building blocks of model-driven apps 5 minutes
Prepare to create a model-driven app 5 minutes
Exercise: Create a model-driven app 30 minutes
Types of predefined security roles 5 minutes
Model-driven app lesson summary 5 minutes
Model-driven app: Additional resources 5 minutes
About the custom solutions graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignments Total 84 minutes

Exercise Review: Build your first canvas app 6 minutes
Exercise Review: Using functions in Power Apps 6 minutes
Canvas app knowledge check 18 minutes
Exercise Review: Create a model-driven app 6 minutes
Model-driven apps knowledge check 18 minutes
Custom solutions module quiz: Exam preparation 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

What canvas app would you like to build next? 5 minutes

Learn about the value of Power Apps portals and how you can leverage it to allow internal and external audiences to view and interact with data from Microsoft Dataverse or Dynamics 365.

What's included

15 videos13 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt1 plugin

15 videos Total 67 minutes

Power Apps portals and what they can do for you 7 minutes
Get started with portals 4 minutes
Use themes in portals 2 minutes
Overview of portals security 4 minutes
Introduction to Power Automate 6 minutes
Overview of Power Automate 5 minutes
Introduction and creating a flow from a template 6 minutes
Build recurring flows 4 minutes
Build an approval request: solution walk-through 4 minutes
Customize an approval request 3 minutes
Business process flows 4 minutes
Adding conditions to a business process flow 5 minutes
Adding a business flow to a model driven app 4 minutes
Edit a business process flow 3 minutes
Build an automated solution module summary 5 minutes

13 readings Total 115 minutes

Overview of templates in portals 5 minutes
Overview of core components of portals 5 minutes
Portals lesson summary 5 minutes
Portals additional resources 5 minutes
Customer case study: TruGreen 5 minutes
Power Automate lesson summary 5 minutes
Power Automate additional resources 5 minutes
Build a button flow 5 minutes
Exercise: Build an approval request 30 minutes
Exercise: Build a business process flow 30 minutes
Automated solution lesson summary 5 minutes
Automated solution additional resources 5 minutes
About the automated solution graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignments Total 96 minutes

Portals knowledge check 18 minutes
Power Automate knowledge check 18 minutes
Exercise Review: Build an approval request 6 minutes
Exercise Review: Build a business process flow 6 minutes
Automation solution knowledge check 18 minutes
Build an automated solution module quiz: Exam preparation 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

How can you use business process flows to create efficiencies? 5 minutes

1 plugin Total 5 minutes

Power Automate in action 5 minutes

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