Create and Manage Canvas Apps with Power Apps: Build, Customize and Publish Low-Code Business Apps.
- Why get trained: Learn how to build Power Apps canvas apps, connect to data sources, create forms and galleries, and manage app publishing and maintenance.
- Why it matters: Low-code app development helps teams digitise manual processes, improve productivity and create business apps faster without extensive coding.
- Who should attend: Business users, app makers, functional consultants and professionals who want to create and manage custom business apps with Power Apps.
Build practical low-code app development skills and start creating business applications that improve productivity and streamline workflows. HRD Corp Claimable.
Overview
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.
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Skills Covered
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Understand how to work with Forms in canvas apps
- Configure a submit button to write data
- Use and Understand the different form modes
- 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.
- Connect to data sources in canvas apps
- Build canvas apps screens
- Select appropriate assets and components
- Add canvas app assets and components to screens
Prerequisites
You should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.
Target Audience
Everyone can attend.
Module 1: Get started with Power Apps canvas apps
This module introduces the learner to Power Apps. It starts with an introduction video briefly describing the “why” (case for Power Apps) and the “what” for what users can do with Power Apps. The units then take users through the “how” instilling in them the confidence that they can use Power Apps to interact with their data.
Learning objectives
This module explains how to:
- 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.
Prerequisites
Access to Microsoft Power Apps, Excel, and OneDrive.
Module 2: Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
In this module, we’ll show learners how to customize their app, a necessary skill for taking advantage of the capabilities of Power Apps. This unit builds upon the app produced in the first unit.
Learning objectives
In this module, you will:
- 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.
Prerequisites
Basic experience with developing canvas apps
Module 3: How to build the User Interface in a canvas app in Power Apps
In this module, learners will learn how to build UI for their app including theming, icons, images, personalization, form factors and controls. In their learning path, thus far, learners have used basic controls with little to no customization. This unit shows how to make an app more personal and help it fit branding or personal requirements.
Learning objectives
In this module, you will:
- 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.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of how to create a Power Apps canvas app. General knowledge of Controls is also helpful but not required.
Module 4: Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app
Do you need to connect an app to access data? Then this module is for you. It focuses on connecting your app to a data source.
Learning objectives
This module explains how to:
- Understand data sources for canvas apps in Power Apps
- Use the Collect function
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of how to create a canvas app in Power Apps.
Module 5: Write data in a Power Apps canvas app
Forms can be used to view, edit, and create records. This module demonstrates how to use forms to write data to your data source. Topics will include form setup, the different form modes, and how to configure a submit button.
Learning objectives
In this module, you will:
- Understand how to work with Forms in canvas apps
- Configure a submit button to write data
- Use and Understand the different form modes
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of how to create a Power Apps canvas app.
Module 6: Publish, share, and maintain a canvas app
You’ve built your first app. Now, it’s time to publish, share it with others, and maintain subsequent versions of the app.
Learning objectives
This module explains how to:
- Introduce the primary app build.
- Launch future iterations of the app.
- Manage versions and publish your app.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of Microsoft Power Apps canvas apps and Microsoft Dataverse
Module 7: 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.
Learning objectives
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
Prerequisites
You should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.
Dates & Locations
August 14, 2026 - August 14, 2026
August 14, 2026 - August 14, 2026
November 13, 2026 - November 13, 2026
November 13, 2026 - November 13, 2026
Exam & Certification
Microsoft Applied Skills: Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps
To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to solve business problems by creating canvas apps with Microsoft Power Platform.
Candidates for this credential should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.
Tasks performed
- 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
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