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PL-400T00: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

By Tyler Farmer
5 Days
Live Class Recording
February 12, 2024
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Course Description

The Microsoft Power Platform helps organizations optimize their operations by simplifying, automating and transforming business tasks and processes. In this course, students will learn how to build Power Apps, Automate Flows and extend the platform to complete business requirements and solve complex business problems.

Course Outline

Learning Path 1: Create a model-driven application in Power Apps

This Learning Path introduces you to creating a model-driven app in Power Apps that uses Common Data Service.

Modules

  • Introduction to model-driven apps and Common Data Service
  • Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps
  • Create and manage entities in Common Data Service
  • Create and manage fields within an entity in Common Data Service
  • Working with option sets in Common Data Service
  • Create a relationship between entities in Common Data Service
  • Define and create business rules in Common Data Service
  • Create and define calculation or rollup fields in Common Data Service
  • Get started with security roles in Common Data Service

 

Learning Path 2: Create a canvas app in Power Apps

This Learning Path introduces you to Power Apps, helps you create and customize an app, and then manage and distribute it. It will also show you how to provide the best app navigation, and build the best UI using themes, icons, images, personalization, different form factors, and controls.

Modules

  • Get started with Power Apps
  • Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
  • Manage apps in Power Apps
  • Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps
  • How to build the UI in a canvas app in Power Apps
  • Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps
  • Document and test your Power Apps application

 

Learning Path 3: Master advance techniques and data options in canvas apps

This Learning Path will help you use advanced formulas, perform custom updates, performance checks and testing. It will also help you to improve user's experience, use custom connectors and focus on working with data source limits.

Modules

  • Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps
  • Author an advanced formula that uses tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps
  • Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app
  • Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app
  • Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app
  • Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app
  • Connecting to other data in a Power Apps canvas app
  • Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app

 

Learning Path 4: Automate a business process using Power Automate

This Learning Path introduces you to Power Automate, teaches you how to build workflows, and how to administer flows.

Modules

  • Get started with Power Automate
  • Build more complex flows with Power Automate
  • Introduction to business process flows in Power Automate
  • Create an immersive business process flow in Power Automate
  • Understand advanced business process flow concepts in Power Automate
  • Introduction to expressions in Power Automate

 

Learning Path 5: Introduction to developing with Power Platform

This Learning Path is the first step in learning about platform, tools, and the ecosystem of the Power Platform

Modules

  • Introduction to Power Platform developer resources
  • Use developer tools to extend the Power Platform
  • Introduction to extending the Microsoft Power Platform

 

Learning Path 6: Extending the Power Platform Common Data Service

This Learning Path looks at the tools and resources needed for extending the Power Platform. We'll start with looking at the SDKs, the extensibility model, and event framework. This learning path also covers when to use plug-ins. Configuration of plug-ins as well as registering and deploying plug-ins.

Modules

  • Introduction to Common Data Service for developers
  • Extend plug-ins

 

Learning Path 7: Extending the Power Platform user experience Model Driven apps

This Learning Path describes how to create client scripting, perform common actions with client script, and automate business process flow with client scrip. Learn about what client script can do, rules, and maintaining scripts. Discover when to use client script as well as when not to use client script.

Modules

  • Introduction to web resources
  • Performing common actions with client script
  • Automate business process flows with client script

 

Learning Path 8: Create components with Power Apps Component Framework

This Learning Path describes how to get started with Power Apps Component Framework with an introductory Learning Path on the core concepts and components. Then it shows you how to build a component and work with advanced Power Apps Component Framework features.

Modules

  • Get started with Power Apps component framework
  • Build a Power Apps component
  • Use advanced features with Power Apps component framework

 

Learning Path 9: Extend Power Apps portals

This Learning Path describes how to transform a content portal into a full web app interacting with Common Data Service. We will also cover the options available to customizers and developers to extend the portal functionality and integrate with Office 365, Power Platform, and Azure components.

Modules

  • Introduction to Power Apps portals
  • Access Common Data Service in Power Apps portals
  • Extend Power Apps portals
  • Build custom Power Apps portals web templates

 

Learning Path 10: Integrate with Power Platform and Common Data Service

This Learning Path describes how to integrate with Common Data Service using code by learning about Common Data Service API. Get an in-depth overview of options available with Common Data Service to integrate data and events to Azure.

Modules

  • Work with Common Data Service Web API
  • Integrate Common Data Service Azure solutions
Course Content
Introductions & Course Overview
Introductions & Course Overview
Section 1: Working with the Dataverse
Overview
Managing Environments
Managing Solutions
Adding Existing Tables from the Dataverse to a Solution
Create and Manage Tables in the Dataverse
Create and Manage Columns
Create Relationships Between Tables
Exporting and Importing Solutions (start)
Exporting and Importing Solutions (start)
Exporting and Importing Solutions (finish)
Exporting and Importing Solutions (finish)
Additional Information about Tables & Columns
Additional Information about Tables & Columns
Section 2: Model-Driven Apps
Getting Started App with Apps
Configuring Forms
Configuring Views
Creating the Model-Driven App
Instructions for Lab 2
Section 3: Canvas Apps
Getting Started with Canvas Apps
Understanding Low Code as a Traditional Developer
Customize a Canvas App
Navigation in Canvas Apps
Power Fx Formulas
Calculate Height, Width, X and Y coordinates for Controls
Creating a Canvas App & Device Format
Naming Controls
Adding Data to the App
Working with Components
Working with Galleries
Building the rest of the Inspections App
Building the rest of the Inspections App (Continued after Break)
Section 4: Advanced Techniques in Canvas Apps
Imperative Development Techniques for Canvas Apps (Variables)
Perform Custom Updates in a Canvas App (Patch Remove)
Using Dataverse Choice Columns with Formulas
Working with Data Source Limits and Delegation
Working with the Office365User Connector
Command button to Fail an Inspection
Application Logging and Tracing
Performance in Canvas Apps
Section 5: Automate a Business Process using Power Automate
Getting Started
Introduction to Expressions in Power Automate
User Dataverse Triggers and Actions in Power Automate
Advanced Features of Cloud Flows
Overview of the Lab Exercises
Section 6: Introduction to Developing with Power Platform
Introduction to Power Platform Developer Resources
Use Developer Tools to Extend the Power Platform
Introduction to Extending the Power Platform
Instructions and Demos For Lab 6
Reviewing Lab 6 and CMT
Demo - XRM Toolbox - FetchXML tool
Demo - Access the Dataverse via Postman
Demo - Access the Dataverse via Python
Demo - XRM Toolbox - Early Bound Generator and Lab 7
Goals for today
Goals for today
Security in the Dataverse
Security in the Dataverse
Section 7: Extending the Model-driven App User Experience
Demo of what we will build
Performing Common Actions with Client Script
Writing our first components
Adding a Command Button
Demo of the Lab
Troubleshooting the Lock button
Using Business Rules instead of Scripts
Section 9: Extended the Microsoft Dataverse
Explaining the Lock Button function we require
Introduction to Dataverse for Developers
Create Plug-ins
Demo of creating a Plug-in and the Lab
Demo of the Solution Checker and Resolving Issues
Section 12: Application Lifecycle Management
Overview of ALM
Demo using the PAC CLI for ALM
Section 8: Creating Code Components with the Power Apps Component Framework
Demo of Building a Component and Lab 9
Continuation
Section 10: Integrating the Dataverse and Azure
Integrate with Azure
Demo of Azure Integration
Continuation and Demo of Lab 11
Explaining Lab 12
Explaining Lab 12
Section 11: Custom Connectors
Section 11: Custom Connectors
End of Class Discussions
End of Class Discussions