Power Platform App Maker Training Overview
This live, online or on-site Microsoft Power Platform App Maker course (PL-100) teaches teams how to build apps using low-code techniques to simplify, automate, and transform business tasks and processes. This course prepares students for the PL-100 exam for which every attendee receives a voucher.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Use the components and features of Microsoft Power Platform
- Understand security roles and apply them to users in an environment
- Build apps, workflows, chatbots, and dashboards
- Understand how business process flows are used within Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse
- Discover how Power BI services and applications work together
- Create compelling visuals and reports
- Import a Microsoft Dataverse dataset into Power BI
- Explore how AI Builder can help improve your business performance
- Use your models in Power Apps and Power Automate
- Create a chatbot
Prerequisites
All students must have basic data modeling, user experience design, requirements analysis, and process analysis skills.
Outline
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Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform
- What is Microsoft Power Platform?
- The business value of Microsoft Power Platform
- Data Connectors
- Data loss prevention, compliance, privacy, and accessibility
Introduction to Model-Driven Apps and Dataverse
- Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse
- Introduction to model-driven apps
- Microsoft Dataverse and model-driven apps working together
- Sample Template Apps
Create Tables in Dataverse
- Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse
- Table characteristics
- Dual-write vs. virtual tables
- Dataverse auditing
- Create a Microsoft Dataverse table
- Import data into your Microsoft Dataverse database
- Create a custom table and import data
Get Started with Model-Driven Apps in Power Apps
- Introducing model-driven apps
- Building blocks of model-driven apps
- Design model-driven apps
- Control security when sharing model-driven apps
- Incorporate business process flows
- Create a model-driven app
- Create and manage columns within a table in Dataverse
- Define columns in Microsoft Dataverse
- Column types in Microsoft Dataverse
- Add a column to a table
- Create a primary name column
- Restrictions that apply to columns in a table
- Create an auto-numbering column
- Create an alternate key
Get started with security roles in Dataverse
- Introduction to environment roles
- Understand environment roles
- Adding or disabling an environment user
- Understand security concepts in Dataverse
- Understand user security roles and security role defaults6
- Exercise - Create a custom role
- Check the roles that a user belongs to
- Configure Dataverse teams for security
- Configure Dataverse group teams for security
Document and Test your Power Apps Application
- Create test plans
- User interface testing
- Performance optimization
- Diagnostics and analytics
- Documentation and the customer
Get Started with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
- Provision your first Dataverse environment
- Create your first table to store data
Build Your First App with Power Apps and Dataverse for Teams
- Create your first app with the hero template
- Customize your app with Power Apps Studio
- Publish your app
- Install template apps
Create a Canvas App in Power Apps
- Introduction to Power Apps
- Power Apps building blocks
- Create your first app in Power Apps
- Ways to build Power Apps
- Power Apps related technologies
- Additional Power Apps related technologies
- Designing a Power Apps app
Navigation in a Canvas App in Power Apps
- Understanding navigation
- The navigation and back function
- Lab - Create navigation functions
- More ways to use the navigation function
How to Build the UI in a Canvas App in Power Apps
- Use themes to quickly change the appearance of your app
- Branding a control
- Icons
- Images
- Personalization
- Using the tablet or phone form factors
- Create UI for a new canvas app
Use and Understand Controls in a Canvas App in Power Apps
- Introduction to controls
- Core properties of controls
- Entering and displaying data with text controls
- Additional controls for enhancing your app's usability
- Media
- Create a canvas app with unique controls
Get Started with Power Automate
- Introducing Power Automate
- Create your first flow
- Create recurring flows
- Monitor incoming emails
- Share flows
- Troubleshoot flows
Use the Admin Center to Manage Environments and Data Policies in Power Automate
- Administer flows
- Export and import flows
- Learn how to distribute button flows
Introduction to Business Process Flows in Power Automate
- Introduction to business process flows
- Differences between a business process flow and a regular flow in Power Automate
- Uses of a business process flow and a standard Power Automate flow
Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform security and governance
- Identify Microsoft Power Platform environments
- Data Loss Prevention policies
- Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit
- Create a Power Platform environment
Build your First Workflow with Power Automate and Dataverse for Teams
- Types of workflows that Power Automate can build in Dataverse
- Create a workflow that triggers when a new message is created
- Add a flow to your Power Apps app8 min
- Schedule a flow
Get Started Building with Power BI
- Use Power BI
- Building blocks of Power BI
- Tour and use the Power BI service
Get Data with Power BI Desktop
- Overview of Power BI Desktop
- Explore Power BI Desktop
- Connect to data sources
- Get data from Excel5 min
- Transform data to include in a report
- Combine data from multiple sources
- Clean data to include in a report
Create Reports with Power BI and Dataverse for Teams
- Connect to and transform Dataverse for Teams data from Power BI
- Create a Power BI report
- Publish the report
- Share the data
Get started with AI Builder
- Introduction to AI Builder
- Choose an AI capability
- Create your first model
- Ways to use your models
Create a Chatbot with Power Virtual Agents and Dataverse for Teams
- Create your first chatbot
- Create and modify topics
- Add inputs, variables, and conditions
- Call an action to pull in Dataverse for Teams data
- Publish and share your new chatbot
Conclusion
Training Materials
All MS Power Platform training students receive Microsoft official courseware.
For all Microsoft Official Courses taught in their entirety that have a corresponding certification exam, an exam
voucher is included for each participant.
Software Requirements
Attendees will not need to install any software on their computer for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide; students will only need a local computer with a web browser and a stable Internet connection. Any recent version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome will be fine.
