PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker (beta)

Learn about the basics of common data service, and explore ways you can connect and customize data connections to Power Platform applications.

An environment is a space to store, manage, and share your organization’s business data that is stored within an instance of a Common Data Service database. You can set up one or many environments, depending on the needs of your organization. This module explores these environments and how you can use them with instances of Common Data Service databases.

Common Data Service entities are similar to tables in a database. Every instance of a Common Data Service database includes a base set of entities that provide structure for data that is commonly used by business applications.

Do you want to create new data fields or leverage exiting standardized fields for your business solutions? This module will show you how to manage or create new fields within an entity in Common Data Service.

Do you want to create standardized choice lists that you can use across all of your Power Apps? This module will show you how to create new or use standard choice lists called option sets in Common Data Service.

Common Data Service lets you load data into or export entities from other entities by using Microsoft Excel. You can also create views to quickly review data that is stored within an entity.

Do you want to use security roles to limit user permissions? This module will show you how you can set permissions to limit access to an environment or limit which users can view, edit, or delete data in an environment within Common Data Service.

Do you need to use administration options that are available for Common Data Service? This module will show you how you can use solutions within Common Data Service and administer environments.

Imperative development techniques can help you achieve the goal for your app. You will learn about different development methods and different variables in Power Apps.

Do you have need for a complex formula in your app? This module can help you author that formula.

With some Power Apps canvas apps a form is not the solution. This module will focus on how to perform custom updates when your data is not in a form.

Do you want to test your app and improve it’s performance? This module will help you understand how to test an app and improve performance.

Learn the basics of AI Builder usage in Power Automate and how it can benefit your organization. 

Power Automate is an online workflow service that automates actions across the most common apps and services.

Power Automate is an online workflow service that automates actions across the most common apps and services. In this module, you’ll build more advanced flows to streamline your business, save time, and work more efficiently.

Tenant and environment admins use the Power Automate Admin center to manage data policies and environments for Power Automate deployments.

Automate your approval processes, infuse intelligence, and integrate legacy apps with Power Automate, UI flows, and AI Builder, which are all part of Microsoft Power Platform.

Do you want to quickly build apps with little to no code? This module will focus on the building blocks of Common Data Service and model-driven apps. These key components will help you build quick business apps in your organization.

Common Data Service lets you securely store and manage data that’s used by business applications. Standard and custom entities within Common Data Service provide a secure and cloud-based storage option for your data.

Model-driven app design is an approach that focuses on quickly adding components to your apps. These components include dashboards, forms, views, and charts. With little or no code, you can make apps that are simple or complex.

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In this module, you’ll learn about forms, grids, views, charts and dashboards that can be used in model driven apps.

Learn the basics of Power Apps and how you can use it in your organization.

Learn how to customize an app by adding controls, images, and logic.

Manage app versions, app sharing, and environments in Power Apps.

How can you find, collect, and clean data from different sources? Power BI is a tool for making sense of your data. You will learn tricks to make data-gathering easier.

Learn what Power BI is, including its building blocks and how they work together.

Connect Power BI to multiple data sources to create reports. Define the relationship between your data sources.

Create and customize visuals to present data in compelling and insightful ways.

Turn your business intelligence data into data insights by creating and configuring Power BI dashboards.

Publish and share your Power BI reports and dashboards to teammates in your organization or to everyone on the web.

In this module, you’ll learn best practices around testing and documenting your Power Apps application.

App users can only navigate through the navigation options provided by an app developer, and this module is designed to help you build a good navigation experience for your canvas app.

Do you want to build a better UI for app users? This module helps you do that using themes, icons, images, personalization, different form factors, and controls.

Controls help create a better experience for the user and collect the appropriate data. This module will help you understand and use Controls.

Do you want to create business process flows? This module will discuss what business process flows are and how to use them to solve business solutions. You will discover why automating the business process is important to organizations and how to build business process flow solutions by using Power Platform and Common Data Service. Additionally, you will learn how business process flows differ from regular Power Automate workflows and when to use each.

What is an immersive business process flow? This module answers that question and focuses on how to build an immersive business process flow by using Power Automate and Common Data Service.

Do you want to improve your business process flow? This module introduces more advanced business process flow concepts and techniques that you can use to help improve your flow.

Learn how to write expressions in Power Automate

Understand your model, model versions, and model sharing in AI Builder.

This self-paced module helps you build an AI model from the ground up, and helps you use it in your business without writing a single line of code.

Learn how to implement no-code chatbots to solve common customer issues.

Learn about using the Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) kit in your tenant.

Do you want to learn about how to help secure and govern Power Platform apps like Power Automate? This module focuses on introducing Power Platform environments and their role in creating Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies by using examples and use cases. A brief introduction and overview of tools will also be discussed, including Power Platform and Power Automate Admin experiences and the Power Platform Center of Excellence (COE) toolkit.

Every organization has unique requirements based on their size, location, data residency requirements, and desire for democratized access to tools like Power Apps and Power Automate. This module discusses considerations that impact how an organization chooses to secure and govern their Power Platform environments.

Do you want prescriptive recommendations for how organizations should choose to implement security and governance? This module will provide recommendations based on popular use cases, including Office 365 and Dynamics 365 configurations. In addition, edge cases such as custom and HTTP connectors are discussed. Tooling will also be discussed, including the DLP Editor Tool, from the Center of Excellence (COE) toolkit, which allows administrators to understand the impact of the DLP change that they are about to make.

Learn best practices for communicating changes to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, find out about how people are using Power Automate, discover who in your organization is creating and sharing flows, learn what connections are being used within your Power Automate environments, and observe how connections are established within your Power Automate environments.

Microsoft provides many templates in Power Automate that administrators can use to enforce governance policies and increase visibility of assets that are being created within a customer’s tenant. This module will identify some existing templates that you can use to provide administrators with greater visibility.

Learn how to manage solutions in Microsoft Power Automate.