Microsoft Power Platform Developer

As a training attendee you must have previous software developer experience using code techniques with modern programming languages such as C# and JavaScript. You must also have a foundational understanding of Microsoft Power Platform and have hands-on experience with the following: - Developing a data model in Microsoft Dataverse - Creating tables, columns, and relationships in Microsoft Dataverse - Building Power Apps canvas apps - Building Power Apps model-driven apps - Building Power Automate cloud flows   In this course you will learn to build solutions using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code that include the following: Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, and Microsoft Azure.

Module 1: How to build your first model-driven app with Dataverse

• Discover the value and key features of Dataverse.
• Learn about the value and key features of model-driven apps.
• Explore sample model-driven template apps.

Module 2: Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps

• Model-driven app design
• Creating a model-driven app

Module 3: Manage tables in Dataverse

• Tables in Dataverse.
• Types of tables that are available in Dataverse.
• Creating a custom table.
• Enabling attachments within a table.
• Which licensing requirements to apply to use each type of table.

Module 4: Create and manage columns within a table in Dataverse

• What a column is in Dataverse.
• The types of columns that are available in Dataverse.
• How to add a column to a table.
• What a primary name column is in Dataverse.
• How to identify restrictions that are associated with columns.
• How to create an auto-numbering column.
• How to create an alternate key.

Module 5: Working with choices in Dataverse

• Learn about choices.
• Explore the standard choices.
• Create a new choice or modify an existing one.

Module 6: Create a relationship between tables in Dataverse

• Why you should segment data that is used by your solutions into many tables.
• Why you need to relate one table to another.
• How to build relationships between tables.
• How to select the proper relationship type when you're building solutions with Dataverse.

Module 7: Define and create business rules in Dataverse

• Define business rules in Dataverse.
• Create and manage business rules in Dataverse.

Module 8: Create and define calculation or rollup columns in Dataverse

• Define a rollup column.
• Create a rollup column.
• Identify a calculation column.
• Create a calculation column.
• Define a formula column.

Module 9: Get started with security roles in Dataverse

• Learn about security roles and apply them to users in an environment.
• Learn how to add users to an environment.
• Understand security concepts in Dataverse.
• Identify default security roles.
• Create a custom role.
• Create a custom security role and assign it to entities and users.
• Learn how to configure Dataverse teams for security.
• Learn how to configure Dataverse group teams for security.

Module 10: Get started with Power Apps canvas apps

• Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient.
• Use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps.
• Build an app in Power Apps in different ways.
• Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook.

Module 11: Customize a canvas app in Power Apps

• Change the layout of a gallery.
• Change the data that a control portrays.
• Modify a form control to show different data fields.
• Learn about gallery and form controls.
• Add a screen.
• Learn how to modify label properties by using basic formulas.
• Add labels.
• Learn how to create basic screen navigation.

Module 12: Manage apps in Power Apps

• Learn how to view and restore app versions.
• Explore how to share an app, including permissions and notifications.
• Learn about what environments are, how to create them, and how to manage security.
• Find more information about Power Apps.

Module 13: Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Gain a greater understanding of the Navigate and Back functions.
• Learn how to use screen transitions in an app.
• Learn how to preview and modify an app to fit various form factors.
• Gain hands-on experience in building navigations inside an app.
• Learn how to use other controls for app navigation.

Module 14: How to build the User Interface in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Understand the basics of building the UI through themes, icons, control customization, and images.
• Use personalization in a canvas app.
• Learn how to preview and modify an app to fit different form factors.

Module 15: Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Understand how to use controls in a canvas app
• Use the different types of controls
• Understand how Galleries and Forms relate to controls

Module 16: Document and test your Power Apps application

• Learn about the different types of test plans and components of a good test plan
• Identify and discuss optimization tools and performance tuning
• Learn about the benefits of documenting your application

Module 17: Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps

• Understand imperative vs. declarative development.
• Understand the variables in Power Apps.
• Understand when to utilize each of the three different types of variables.

Module 18: Create formulas that use tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps

• Utilize formulas that process multiple records.
• Use the Concat function to combine text from multiple records.
• Utilize the Countrows, CountIf, ForAll.
• Perform math operations on data in a table.

Module 19: Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app

• Use the Patch function to update your data.
• Understand how the Defaults function is used to create new records with Patch.
• Use the Remove and RemoveIf functions to delete records.
• Determine whether to use Clear and Collect or ClearCollect in their scenario.

Module 20: Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app

• Use best practices to improve the performance of your app.
• Understand how to best test an app.
• Use fiddler for troubleshooting.

Module 21: Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app

• Understand relational data
• Use relational data to improve an app user's experience in Power Apps
• Understand how to use relational data in Microsoft Dataverse

Module 22: Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app

• Understand the different limits of different data sources
• Understand how functions, predicates, and operators all play roles in the limits
• Use this new understanding to choose the best data source for an app

Module 23: Connect to other data in a Power Apps canvas app

• Understand and use action-based connectors.
• Integrate user information and user-profile information into a canvas app.
• Use Power Automate with Power Apps.

Module 24: Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app

• Understand custom connectors and the basics of how to build one.
• Understand the custom connector lifecycle.

Module 25: Get started with Power Automate

• Create a flow that automatically saves email attachments.
• Learn how to create a button flow to send yourself a reminder.

Module 26: Build approval flows with Power Automate

• Create and process approval requests.
• Build a flow that runs at recurring time intervals.
• Create a business process flow with conditions.

Module 27: Introduction to expressions in Power Automate

• Use one or more functions to create expressions.
• Use functions to retrieve data, change data, evaluate data, and more.

Module 28: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform developer resources

• Explain what solution components exist within Microsoft Power Platform.
• Explain key components of Microsoft Dataverse and the Common Data Model.
• Explain what Azure solution elements relate to Microsoft Power Platform.
• Explain what AI Solutions exist as it relates to Microsoft Power Platform.
• Navigate the Developer Guide successfully in support of their Microsoft Power Platform development efforts.

Module 29: Use developer tools to extend Power Platform

• Install NuGet packages available for Microsoft Power Platform development
• Work with the Configuration Migration tool
• Work with Package Deployer
• Leverage Solution Packager to isolate features
• Run the Plugin Registration Tool

Module 30: Introduction to extending Power Platform

• Identify which elements architecturally comprise Microsoft Power Platform.
• Learn about the areas of extensibility that are available to customize Microsoft Power Platform through code.
• Discover different approaches to common business scenarios in respect to achieving extensibility with configuration versus code.

Module 31: Introduction to Dataverse for developers

• Explain what functions can be executed against Microsoft Power Platform via Microsoft Power Platform SDKs.
• Perform basic operations against Microsoft Power Platform such as create/read/update/delete operations.

Module 32: Extend plug-ins in Power Platform

• Learn how to extend plug-ins.

Module 33: Perform common actions with client script in Power Platform

• Write client scripts to perform common actions as listed in the module units.

Module 34: Automate business process flows with client script

• Automate business processes using JavaScript/TypeScript API methods.

Module 35: Get started with Power Apps component framework

• Power Apps component framework architecture
• Power Apps component tooling

Module 36: Build a Power Apps component

• Create a custom Power Apps component.
• Create a code component solution package.
• Test and debug a code component.
• Learn key concepts of Dataverse auditing

Module 37: Use advanced features with Power Apps component framework

• Use formatting API in a Power Apps component.
• Use Dataverse web API in a Power Apps component.

Module 38: Access Dataverse in Power Pages websites

• Discover Power Pages components that are available to help you display and interact with Dataverse data on a Power Pages website.
• Identify the various features of the Power Pages components.
• Display a list of data and an associated drill-down list for details.
• Set up a form to access individual table rows.
• Trigger classic Dataverse workflows from the website.

Module 39: Extend Power Pages websites

• Discover where software development can resolve particular website feature requirements.
• Employ application lifecycle management (ALM) for Power Pages websites.
• Apply JavaScript code to website assets.
• Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to address specific website development requirements.

Module 40: Build custom Power Pages web templates

• Learn about the relationship between web templates, page templates, and webpages.
• Discover how you can build custom web templates by using HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Liquid, and JavaScript.
• Use Liquid template language to build and structure web templates.
• Learn how to embed custom CSS and JavaScript into web templates.
• Learn how to reference other web templates in a web template.

Module 41: Work with Dataverse Web API

• Authorize against Dataverse with OAuth.
• Use OData to query data.

Module 42: Integrate Dataverse Azure solutions

• Publish Dataverse events to Microsoft Azure Service Bus.
• Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Dataverse events.
  

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