Building a canvas app from scratch in Power Apps 2024
Microsoft Power Apps 2024
| Beginner
- 12 videos | 53m 23s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
- CPE
One of the most common kinds of canvas apps is the CRUD app, an app designed to create, read, update, and delete records in a data source. This course is designed to provide a hands-on experience in creating a functional three-screen CRUD app in Power Apps. In this course, you will learn how to configure your app's theme and settings, add and manage screens, and insert tables to display data. The course also teaches how to create interactive galleries, linked to your data source, and forms for viewing and editing records. Learn to navigate between screens using Power Apps' Navigate and Back functions. Additionally, you'll learn to enhance user interaction by adding buttons to create, delete, submit, and cancel records. The course further delves into the Text and Sort functions to help you format and organize records in your gallery. You will also learn how to create a search box and filter for a more efficient, dynamic data display.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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Discover the key concepts covered in the building a canvas app from scratch in power apps 2024 course
Configure your app's general and display settings
Add and manage screens
Insert tables into an app
make a browse screen by adding a gallery, linking it to data, and editing its properties
Set up your detail and edit screens by adding a display form and an edit form -
Configure navigation between screens using the navigate and back formulas
Add buttons to create and delete records
Add buttons to submit and cancel changes to an edit form
Use the text, sort, and sortbycolumns functions to format and sort records in a gallery
Use the search function to create a search box
Use a dropdown and the filter function to filter records in a gallery
IN THIS COURSE
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58sThis video outlines the key content covered in the Building a canvas app from scratch in Power Apps 2024 course, including adding and managing screens, creating galleries, and configuring navigation between screens. FREE ACCESS
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4m 48sWhen you build an app in Power Apps, you have control over its preferences. You can configure the app's general settings to determine basic aspects of the app like its name and icon, and configure display settings to optimize its appearance. Watch the video to learn more about setting up your app. FREE ACCESS
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3. Adding & managing screens in Power Apps 20243m 48sScreens are a fundamental element of canvas apps. In Power Apps Studio, you can add screens for different functions, such as browsing records, viewing details, and editing new or existing records. In this video, we show you how to add screens to your app, as well as how to rename, re-order, duplicate, and remove them. FREE ACCESS
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4. Inserting tables in Power Apps 20244m 36sIn Power Apps, there are several ways to show all the records from your data source in your app, including by adding a table or a gallery. Of these controls, tables are the simplest and require less configuring in terms of layout. In this video, you will see how to insert, format, and remove a table. FREE ACCESS
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5. Creating a gallery in Power Apps 20244m 55sCreating a gallery allows you to display records from a data source. Galleries are commonly used in the Browse Screen, where users can browse through records to view and edit. In this video, you will see how to insert a gallery, link it to a data source, choose the fields to display, and make other key changes to your gallery. FREE ACCESS
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6. Creating forms in Power Apps 20244m 57sWhereas galleries allow canvas app users to browse through records from a data source, forms let users view those records' details and even make changes to them. This video will show you how to add a display form to the details screen and an edit form to your edit screen. You will also see how to set the form's Item property to link form items to the selected record in the gallery. FREE ACCESS
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7. Configuring navigation between screens in Power Apps 20244m 49sOnce you have set up your three screen app with a gallery and forms, you will need to add navigation between screens. In this video, we will see how to configure your gallery's OnSelect property to allow users to navigate to the Detail Screen by selecting an item in the gallery. We will also see how to add backwards navigation to go back to the previous screen, and an edit button to take users from the Details Screen to the Edit Screen. FREE ACCESS
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8. Adding buttons to create & delete records in Power Apps 20244m 22sIn the last video, you saw how to add navigation to allow users to view and edit existing records. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a button for creating new records as well as a delete button to remove records. FREE ACCESS
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9. Adding submit & cancel buttons in Power Apps 20244m 28sWhen your app has an edit form, users will be able to edit and enter data through the form's inputs. However, in order for that data to be usable, you will need to create a save button for users to submit the form. You can also add a cancel button to reset the form and take users back to the previous screen. FREE ACCESS
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10. Formatting & sorting gallery items in Power Apps 20245m 5sOne great way to enhance your app is by adding some order to its gallery. In Power Apps, you can use the text function to change the formats of items in the gallery, and use the sort and SortByColumns functions to organize your data based on specific criteria. Find out more in this tutorial. FREE ACCESS
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11. Creating a search box in Power Apps 20245m 6sWhen your gallery has dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of entries, it can be useful to add a search box to allow users to look for specific records. In this tutorial, you will see how to create a search box using the text input and the Search function. FREE ACCESS
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12. Filtering your gallery in Power Apps 20245m 31sIn addition to sort and search functionality, you can add filter functionality to enhance your gallery. See how to create a filter with the help of a drop down list and the Filter function. FREE ACCESS
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