Mastering Power Apps-2
Mastering Power Apps-2
Course Description
Mastering Power Apps is a 3-day training class designed for students who are ready to move their Power Apps
skills to the next level. Students will cover advanced topics necessary for building more complex apps as well as
look at best practices for creating and maintain apps.
Please note - Under the umbrella term of Power Apps, Microsoft include three types of apps: Canvas Apps,
Model-driven apps and Power Pages (previously known as Power Apps Portals). This course exclusively looks at
canvas apps and uses generic Office 365 data sources (i.e. not Dataverse or SQL) for examples.
For training on Model-driven apps and Dataverse, please refer to course Mastering Power Platform Dataverse
and Model-Driven Apps (QAMPMOD).
Power Pages are covered on the course Microsoft Power Platform Developer (MPL400).
Due to the dynamic nature of updates to Office 365 functionality by Microsoft, elements of the syllabus of this
course can be subject to change without notice.
Objectives
Target Audience
This course is aimed at existing Power Apps makers who wish to improve their app development skills. This
course is suitable for advanced users, IT staff and developers who wish to gain an insight to app development
with Power Apps.
Course Modules
◾ The student's prerequisite knowledge will have introduced them to the most common controls used in
creating Power Apps. This module will extend that knowledge to examine some advanced uses of the basic
controls as well as using controls that are used less often. The module will also have a more in depth look at
connectors and connections and will discuss delegation issues. This module will also look at control
◾ UI design guidelines have changed since the early days of Power Apps. This module introduces learners to
current design practices and enables them to create responsive apps.
◾ The advanced data operations module starts with an examination of records and tables and the functions
used to shape them. The use of variables and collections are examined, and the module finishes off with an
examination of the Patch function used for advanced data updates.
Administration (1 topic)
◾ This module looks at the different levels of administration required with Power Apps, and the tools used for
this. The module also looks at Environments, solutions, data policies and data integration. Although the CDS
is not covered in detail on this course, and introduction to it will be included in order to cover the topics in this
module. This module also looks at saving, publishing and working with versions as well as importing and
exporting apps.
◾ This module examines how integrate Power Apps with Power Automate. It examines the process of calling
flows from Power Automate and then receiving the results back from those flows.
◾ The module on working with SharePoint covers three topics. The first of these looks at the differences when
SharePoint is used as a data source as opposed to other data sources. The second topic look at replacing
SharePoint forms with Power Apps forms, and the final topic looks at how to use Power Apps and Power
Automate together to upload files to a SharePoint library.
◾ This module will introduce various optimising techniques to students. Topics in this section will include
creating responsive apps and use of relative styling. This module will also look at data validation and
optimising apps for performance. Finally, some of the tools to help app makers are introduced.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with Microsoft Excel, Office 365 and SharePoint Online. It is also
recommended that students have some hands-on experience creating Power Apps. Attendance of the QA
course Microsoft PowerApps Essentials (QAPAESS) can be used to provide the pre-requisite skills for this
course.
Dual monitor setup is required for when attending this course via the QA Attend from Anywhere delivery method.