Use Power Platform for Custom & Automated Solutions

Use Power Platform for Custom & Automated Solutions

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Instructor: Microsoft

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9 hours to complete

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

70 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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Access
Category: Automation
Category: Application Development
Category: Application Design
Category: Process Design
Category: Driving engagement
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Business Process Automation
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Business Process
Category: Data Integration

Tools you'll learn

Category: Microsoft Power Automate/Flow
Category: Microsoft Power Platform
Category: No-Code Development

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Assessments

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 videosTotal 46 minutes

Introduction and learn basic elements5 minutes
Build a canvas app: Create your account and install4 minutes
Customize the app7 minutes
Get started with functions and share an app7 minutes
Introduction to model-driven apps3 minutes
Design of model-driven apps4 minutes
Business logic3 minutes
Creating model-driven apps8 minutes
Control security and share model-driven apps4 minutes
Custom solutions module summary3 minutes

13 readingsTotal 140 minutes

Generate and Explore the app5 minutes
Exercise: Build your first canvas app30 minutes
Practice using functions in Power Apps5 minutes
Exercise: Practice using functions in Power Apps30 minutes
Canvas app lesson summary5 minutes
Canvas app additional resources5 minutes
Building blocks of model-driven apps5 minutes
Prepare to create a model-driven app5 minutes
Exercise: Create a model-driven app30 minutes
Types of predefined security roles5 minutes
Model-driven app lesson summary5 minutes
Model-driven app: Additional resources5 minutes
About the custom solutions graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignmentsTotal 84 minutes

Exercise Review: Build your first canvas app6 minutes
Exercise Review: Using functions in Power Apps6 minutes
Canvas app knowledge check18 minutes
Exercise Review: Create a model-driven app6 minutes
Model-driven apps knowledge check18 minutes
Custom solutions module quiz: Exam preparation30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 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 videosTotal 67 minutes

Power Apps portals and what they can do for you7 minutes
Get started with portals4 minutes
Use themes in portals2 minutes
Overview of portals security4 minutes
Introduction to Power Automate6 minutes
Overview of Power Automate5 minutes
Introduction and creating a flow from a template6 minutes
Build recurring flows4 minutes
Build an approval request: solution walk-through4 minutes
Customize an approval request3 minutes
Business process flows4 minutes
Adding conditions to a business process flow5 minutes
Adding a business flow to a model driven app4 minutes
Edit a business process flow3 minutes
Build an automated solution module summary5 minutes

13 readingsTotal 115 minutes

Overview of templates in portals5 minutes
Overview of core components of portals5 minutes
Portals lesson summary5 minutes
Portals additional resources5 minutes
Customer case study: TruGreen5 minutes
Power Automate lesson summary5 minutes
Power Automate additional resources5 minutes
Build a button flow5 minutes
Exercise: Build an approval request30 minutes
Exercise: Build a business process flow30 minutes
Automated solution lesson summary5 minutes
Automated solution additional resources5 minutes
About the automated solution graded assessment5 minutes

6 assignmentsTotal 96 minutes

Portals knowledge check18 minutes
Power Automate knowledge check18 minutes
Exercise Review: Build an approval request6 minutes
Exercise Review: Build a business process flow6 minutes
Automation solution knowledge check18 minutes
Build an automated solution module quiz: Exam preparation30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 5 minutes

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

1 pluginTotal 5 minutes

Power Automate in action5 minutes

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