4. Describe the business value of Power Apps Flashcards
Describe Canvas Apps
Canvas apps are a great option when you want to build an app from a blank canvas. Drag and drop various controls and add the desired functionality by writing Excel style formulas. Canvas apps provide you complete flexibility when building your apps.
Describe Model-Driven Apps
Model-driven apps build from data in the Common Data Service. You define the relationships, forms, views, business rules, and more at the data layer, inside of the Common Data Service, giving you enough control to get your business result without writing all of the formulas yourself.
Describe Templates (Power Apps)
Create a canvas app automatically based on a template for a specific scenario, such as tracking budgets and scheduling vacations, and then run the app to understand its default behavior.
Describe Formulas (Power Apps)
Express logic in an app and control its navigation, filtering, sorting, and other functionality. Filter: Narrow down the records returned from your data source. Match: Check a value to see if it follows a given pattern. Distinct: Return the unique values from a list of data. Math functions: - From simple Sum or Average to the complex Atan and Sin.
Describe how to connect to data when building a canvas app
In Power Apps, add a data connection to an existing canvas app or to an app that you’re building from scratch. Your app can connect to SharePoint, Common Data Service, Salesforce, OneDrive, or many other data sources.
Describe controls in Power Apps
Galleries: Layout containers that hold a set of controls that show records from a data source.
Forms: Details about your data and let you create and edit records
Media: Background images, camera button, a barcode reader, and more
Charts: Perform instant analysis while they’re on the road.
See Control Reference for a full list
Describe how to publish and share an app
File > Save As > The Cloud > Save > Share
Permissions:
Co-Owner: (use, edit, share)
User: (view only)
Note: Only Owners can delete an app!
Describe use cases for and the business value of portals
Portals bring the power of no-code solutions to building externally facing websites. Through the Power Apps interface, you can build an anonymous or authenticated website that allows users to interact with data held in Common Data Service.
Describe five Portal Templates
Customer self-service portal: A customer self-service portal enables customers to access self-service knowledge, support resources, view the progress of their cases, and provide feedback
Partner portal: A partner portal allows every organization with resellers, distributors, suppliers, or partners to have real-time access to every stage of shared activities.
Employee self-service portal: An employee self-service portal creates and efficient and well-informed workforce by streamlining common tasks and empowering every employee with a definitive source of knowledge
Community portal: A community portal leverages peer-to-peer interactions between customers and experts to organically grow the catalog of available knowledge from knowledge base articles, forums, and blogs as well as providing feedback through comments and ratings
Portal from blank: Create a website to share data with external and internal users. This template comes with sample pages to get you quickly started.
Describe how to extend CDS Data
Power Apps offers standard “out-of-the-box” entities to cover typical scenarios within an organization (such as tracking appointments), but there may be times when you need to create custom entities to store data that’s specific to your organization.
Describe how to embed Power BI Objects
A control that shows a Power BI tile inside an app. Take advantage of your existing data analysis and reporting by displaying your Power BI tiles inside your apps.
