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PL-400T00: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

By Tyler Farmer
5 Days
Live Class Recording
January 6, 2025
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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
Introduction
Working with the Dataverse
Working with Environments
Working with Solutions
Publishers, Prefix, and Schema Name
Working with Existing Objects
Create and Manage Tables
Create and Manage Columns
Creating relationships between tables
Overview of the Course Lab Solution
Review of different app types
Review of Model-driven apps, forms and views
Working with Components
Creating the Model-driven App
Review of Canvas Apps
Demo App: Hello World App
Continue with Hello World App
Deploying Apps to Devices
Other Methods to Build Canvas Apps
Exporting Canvas Apps
Screen Navigation
Galleries & Forms
Aligning Controls with Variables
Start Screen and Naming Controls
Buttons and Icons
Adding the Gallery and Forms
Variables and the Office 365 Connector
Perform Custom Updates in a Canvas App (Patch function)
Data Limits and Delegation
Automating a Business Process with Power Automate
Expressions
Dataverse Triggers and Actions
Approval Workflows
Calling a Cloud Flow from a Canvas App
Introduction to Advanced Topics
Introduction to Developing with Power Platform
Use Developer Tools to extend the Power Platform
Exporting and Importing Solutions
Using the PAC CLI
Community Tools with XRM Toolbox
Introduction to Extending the Power Platform
Work with Dataverse APIs
Demo: Access the Dataverse with Python
Entra ID App Registration
Review of Business Rules
Extending Model-driven apps with Client Script
Creating Code Components with the Component Framework
Overview of Today
Custom Connectors
Extending the Dataverse with Plugins
Course Handouts and Achievement
Integrate the Dataverse and Azure with Web Hooks