Course Duration: 3 Days
About This Course
The Microsoft Power Platform helps organizations optimize their operations by automating routine tasks and standardizing business best practices. A PowerApps Developer is a professional software developer who extends the Power Platform to solve complex business problems. In this course, PowerApps Developers will build on their existing knowledge of the Power Platform, Microsoft stack, and standard development tools and practices. PowerApps Developers will learn how to estimate effort and scope; validate requirements and design technical architecture; create data models; determine implementation tools; and document their technical design. Broad topics will include implementing user security and accessibility; managing environments; extending the Common Data Service; creating and using web resources; and working with plug-ins.
Audience Profile
A PowerApps Developer is responsible for designing, developing, securing, extending, and integrating a platform implementation. The developer implements components of the solution that include application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Create and document a data model
Implement entities and fields
Create and maintain solutions
Automate business processes
Extend the user experience
Develop integrations
Before attending this course, students must have:
A basic understanding of the Power Platform.
Experience in software development against the Microsoft stack and Visual Studio.
Experience in administering solutions in Azure (preferred).
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to developing with the Power Platform
In this module, students will learn about developer resources and how to leverage them to extend the Power Platform.
Lessons
Introduction to Power Platform developer resources
Use developer tools to extend the Power Platform
Introduction to extending the Power Platform
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Identify the functionality of developer tools
Use developer tools
Module 2: Extending the Power Platform Common Data Service
In this module, students will learn how and when to use plug-ins or other tools to extend the Common Data Service.
Lessons
Introduction to Common Data Service for developers
Extend plug-ins
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Write a plug-in
Use a plug-in to extend the Common Data Service
Module 3: Extending the Power Platform user experience
In this module, students will learn how to leverage web resources and client script to extend the Power Platform user experience.
Lessons
Introduction to web resources
Performing common actions with client script
Automate Business Process Flows with client script
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Use web resources
Write client script
Extend business process flows
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