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Power Apps & Power Automate (Flow): Level 1 - Designing Modern Forms & Workflows (55265 & 55268) Virtual Classroom Live November 29, 2021

Price: $1,595

This course runs for a duration of 3 Days.

The class will run daily from 10:00 AM CT to 4:45 PM CT.

Class Location: Virtual LIVE Instructor Led - Virtual Live Classroom.

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Description

Overview
This course delivers an instructor-led breakdown of Microsoft PowerApps as well as a showcase for Microsoft Flow from start to finish in an engaging and practical way.

Students will be taught how to design, test and publish new applications that work with a variety of data sources. We will take users through a selection of well-crafted lessons to help them build new applications for their business.

Flow is a diverse product, turning business processes into automated, consistent and visual workflows. Flow is designed to interweave the various products in Office 365 as well as connect to other on-premises and web-based solutions. This course will give you the confidence to select the right actions and workflow logic for your business workflows.

Software Undergoing Continuous Improvement
Notice: This application is frequently updated! That is great for users who get ongoing access new features and enhancements. However, these frequent changes present a challenge for educators. While our instructors get updated by working with the software between classes, the manuals don't get updated as frequently. As a result, it is common for manuals to have procedures that are out of date. In those cases, instructors will work with the class to highlight the updated procedures. Please excuse errors in course materials for software that undergoing "continuous improvements."

Audience
The course is targeted at intermediate to advanced users, business analysts and even developers who need an easy and quick way to create interactive forms that may need to initiate a business process or workflow.
 

Course Overview

An introduction to Microsoft PowerApps
Let’s get started with an introduction to Microsoft PowerApps. Traditionally building customised solutions for a business involved using a coding language to build an application from scratch. Typically, these solutions could often only be used within the business, making external use of the application a large hurdle to overcome. With PowerApps we can now not only easily build solutions, but we can also share them with users in our business. Deployment takes seconds and you could by testing your own app on your phone in no time. This module will overview the features of PowerApps, its benefits to a business and the variety of ways you can build and access your apps on different devices.

Topics Covered

  • What is PowerApps?
  • The benefits of apps
  • How to get to PowerApps
  • Canvas Apps and Model-Driven Apps
  • License Options and Costs


Getting started with PowerApps
To begin our journey through the PowerApps product, we will begin by looking at some of the templates that are available to view and edit. Microsoft’s templates are a good starting point to discover what the product is capable off and how it can be achieved. We will also take the chance to have a tour of the editor so that students are familiar with the interface that they will be using over the two-day course. We will then build our first app from a static data source, showing students how to test their changes in the app instantly without the need to publish. We will also discuss how to configure your apps settings and how to access the app once it has been saved and shared.

Topics Covered

  • Discover PowerApps with templates
  • Building a new app with a data source
  • Add, edit and remove controls
  • Testing an app
  • App settings
  • Publish and share an app
  • Mobile app


Branding and Media
In our next module, we will look at the options available to designers that allow them to implement their business branding. Not only will this deal with the aesthetics of your app, it will also introduce time-saving tips to help keep your branding consistent. We will also be discussing how to embed media into your app which can be useful if you are planning on an app that might promote video content.

Topics Covered

  • Linking control properties
  • Backgrounds
  • Colours and transparency
  • Duplicating screens
  • Copying the look and feel
  • Using images
  • Embed and play audio and video


PowerApp Controls
So far in the course, we would have covered the basics of adding, editing and removing controls from our applications. The drive behind this module is to provide more depth on the categories of controls which can be used on a form. Your instructor will take you through each control and discuss its purpose and configuration. Tackling the wide selection of controls will help students recognise when to use the right control.

Topics Covered

  • Labels
  • Buttons
  • Text inputs
  • Controls
  • Galleries
  • Data tables
  • Forms
  • Media
  • Charts
  • Icons


Data Sources and Logic
To help maintain and view essential business information, organisations often have a diverse selection of locations to keep different types of data. This could range from databases to file storage locations. PowerApps offers connections to a wide selection of data sources. We will show students to build their PowerApps to bring in data from a variety of sources as well as how they can utilise the common data source, a storage location unique to PowerApps.

Topics Covered

  • Working with files
  • Databases
  • Filter, sort and search formulas
  • If and Select
  • Accessing on-premises sources
  • The common data source
  • Sharing data sources


Model-Driven Apps
Module one to five discussed how to work with the original type of PowerApp known as a Canvas App, Microsoft have now introduced a second type of app known as a model-driven app. Model driven apps involve a different development process to canvas apps. We will review this development process during this module.
Model-Driven apps can be quicker to build than canvas apps, but they are less customisable and typically have a higher cost, knowing which type of app to use is not always a simple decision, we will show you the pros and cons of each.

Topics Covered

  • What is a model-driven app?
  • Where will my data be stored?
  • How do create a model-driven app
  • Canvas vs model-driven summary
  • Mobile App


PowerApps Integration
PowerApps is designed to easily connect to other business systems to read and update information. In this module we will discuss some simple ways to integrate PowerApps with key Office 365 systems including Teams, SharePoint Online and Flow. The result, is the ability to use a combination of systems to create solutions for a variety of business requirements.

Topics Covered

  • Start a Flow from a PowerApp
  • Embed PowerApps in Teams
  • Embed PowerApps in SharePoint Online


Administration and Maintenance
In our last module for Microsoft PowerApps, we will be looking at how a business can manage their existing apps. This could be using analytics to discover usage trends. We will discover how to export and import apps, so they can be reused in other locations. Finally, we will discuss how Office 365 administrators can shape the PowerApps experience with high-level settings that help ensure data segregation and security.

Topics Covered

  • Maintaining an app
  • View analytics
  • Export and import apps
  • Office 365 administration for PowerApps
  • Environments
  • Data policies
  • Data integration


An Introduction to Microsoft Flow
Let’s get started with an introduction to Microsoft Flow. Historically, automating business processes typically landed in the lap of a developer in the business, who has a good understanding of coding and the systems that they were connecting. However, more and more systems deployed to businesses are encouraging a bigger focus on end user design and management. With this culture change, end users are looking to further improve their business solutions. Flow brings workflow design to all audiences. It offers the building blocks for lightweight or business-critical processes. In this module, we cover an overview of the product and its application to Office 365 and third-party services.

Topics Covered

  • What is Microsoft Flow?
  • The benefits of automation
  • How to get to Flow


Getting started with Flow
We begin our discovery of Microsoft Flow by building our first business process. We will discuss how to use templates to get started with Flow or how to use a blank template to start with no defined actions. Once in the product, we will give you a tour of the editor, workflow management page and the home screen to help you navigate around the product. Next, we will start to add, edit and remove actions from our workflow template in order to customise the Flow for a specific business need. Once ready we will publish and trigger the workflow to test that it works as expected. We will finish this module by discussing how to turn a Flow on or off as well as deleting a Flow.

Topics Covered

  • Using Flow templates
  • Navigating in Flow
  • Editing a Flow
  • Publish and trigger a Flow
  • Turn off or delete a Flow


Flow logic
Decision making during a business process is often a bottleneck. Waiting for decisions or information to steer the workflow towards its goal is dependent on how long the involved party spends on the task. This could be mitigated if the desired information is found declared elsewhere for example, as a document property or a form entry to name a few examples. Logic in a workflow allows existing information to push the workflow down multiple paths. This often speeds up workflow duration and minimizes human input. In this module, we will look at the core logic found in Flow and a practical application of each option.

Topics Covered

  • Adding conditions
  • Designing switches
  • Using apply to each
  • Configuring do until logic
  • Adding a scope


Integration
Businesses will often user a selection of productivity tools and services beyond Office 365. Marketing teams may use Facebook and Twitter whereas a sales team may use Salesforce to manage their customers. Flow provides connectors for popular services allowing your processes to extend beyond Office 365 to other web services. Connections can even be made to on-premises servers, allowing your business systems house at the office to take part in your processes.

Topics Covered

  • Standard and premium connectors
  • Connecting to web services
  • Using Flow with on-premises data


The mobile app
Flow has a corresponding mobile app that can be used to leverage many features of Flow. Firstly, it offers users the capability to build new Flows, directly from their phone or tablet. Secondly, it can be used to manage existing flows including editing, viewing history, saving a copy, disabling and deleting Flows. You can access any approvals that have been sent to you by Flow and approve or reject decisions. The app also supports the push notifications that can be sent to your phone or tablet from a Flow. Additionally, you can even create buttons that appear in the app which allow you to trigger Flows. This valuable app will be detailed in this module.

Topics Covered

  • Downloading the mobile app
  • Signing in and account management
  • Building and managing Flows
  • Creating buttons
  • Feeds and approvals


Administration and maintenance
In our last module for Microsoft Flow, we will be taking a look at how a business can manage their Flows once they have a good uptake of the product. We will begin by discussing managing individual Flows. This could be using history to discover the source of any issues and implement error handling as well as using the analytics to discover usage trends. We will discover how to share a Flow which is ideal for sharing the maintenance of a Flow with another colleague and how to import and export Flows. Finally, we will discuss how Office 365 administrators can shape the Flow experience with high-level settings that help ensure data segregation and security.

Topics Covered

  • Maintaining a Flow
  • View history and analytics
  • Sharing a Flow
  • Export and import Flows
  • Office 365 administration for Flow
  • Environments
  • Data policies
  • Data integration

Prerequisites

Students should have prior experience of using Office 365.