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This slide deck accompanied the presentation at #SUGUK on 20180322 in London, UK. PowerApps allows you to build business application with no-code, and is included in most Office 365 plans.
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- 2. MVP: Office Server and Services 11 years Author/Co-author 10+ SharePoint Books Independent consultant Trainer & product specialist Worked with SharePoint since 2001 UK Based, work in Europe & US Speaker Bio
- 3. Introducing PowerApps One of the Business Application Platform (BAP) apps A single, unified extensibility platform Easy Authoring –WYSIWYG – Excel like expressions Mash up data from multiple sources Cross Platform – iOS,Android,Windows, web Enterprise Ready – Centrally managed, DLP policy on data & connectors Power BI PowerApps Microsoft Flow Common Data Service Connectors + gateways
- 4. Data sources External data - connections Local storage - collections Common Data Service – Azure base storage for importing data from multiple data sources Offline Calendar Documents Products SharePoint lists SharePoint site connector Product Code List Price Color Batman Action Figure Captain America Action Figure GI Joe Action Figure Green Hulk Action Figure Red Hulk Alter Action Figure WP0001 WP0002 WP0003 WP0004 WP0005 $14.95 $12.95 $14.95 $9.99 $9.99 Black Red Green Green Red Connection Local storage Connection takes care of authentication of user access the data Loaded when app started or the Refresh function runs
- 5. 213k+ People in organizations are using PowerApps and Flow 1M+ monthly active users https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendor/microsoft-powerapps/customers
- 6. https://www.pcmag.com/review/353386/microsoft-powerapps 12th June 2017
- 7. A PowerApps Audit Solution in 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSgYBGKNNGk
- 8. It’s not just for business
- 9. How to build a Fidget Spinner Ashlee Culmsee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqKS_k4WCRM
- 10. What is PowerApps Studio? A web application that empowers: Business experts Business analysts Consultants Other app “imagineers” to create: new purpose-specific mobile apps that enable new business scenarios for employees and customers without requiring any programming skills
- 11. What PowerApps is not A developer tool (replacement forVisual Studio) A means for creating Mission-critical transactional applications Complex forms with dependencies Printable forms, unless a screenshot is enough Anonymous form entry A silver-bullet solution for all business scenarios A tool to build responsive web applications Support for SharePoint in PowerApps and Flow is developing but there are definitely things you can’t do!
- 12. Create an app Three options to create a PowerApps: ❑ Start an app from scratch – blank surface ❑ A template ❑ Create an app from data, if you know where you data resides, e.g., ❖ A SharePoint custom list ▪ PowerApps created from a SharePoint Online list are treated as either Private v Public views ▪ Can now create SharePoint custom forms ❖ Excel spreadsheet Save: Locally (.msapp) Or The PowerApps cloud service
- 13. PowerApps Studio: 1. Ribbon 2.Thumbnails of all screens 3.App Screen 4. Property list 5. Formula bar 6. Options 1 2 3 4 5 6
- 14. PowerApps packaging (licensing) https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ PowerApps and Microsoft Flow for Office 365 and Dynamics 365 Extending Office 365 and Dynamics 365 PowerApps P1 For business users: Run any app using CDS PowerApps P2 For creators and IT admins: Full creation & admin capabilities
- 15. Administration PowerApps admin centre: https://admin.powerapps.com/ Microsoft Flow admin centre: https://admin.flow.microsoft.com/ https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en- us/tutorials/environments-administration/ Enables you to manage environments and data policies (DLP) Environments are used as a space to store, manage and share the apps, flows and business data from your organization
- 16. PowerApps Spring 2018 Update Combining Dynamics 365 and PowerApps into a single unified platform PowerApps platform is now the platform that the Dynamics 365 for Sales, Service, Marketing, andTalent applications are natively built on https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-spring-announce/ https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cds-for-apps-march/ https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-model-driven-apps/
- 17. Common Data Service for Apps – CDS 2.0 Major advancements Model-drive apps More data centric way to build “forms over data” declarative applications. Focus on entities in CDS for Apps, their relationships, associated business logic and forms. Server-side logic to enable scenarios from simple validation and defaulting to complex code executing during data updates. Business Process Flows to model business process stages and guide users through them. Sophisticated security model providing row level security and even models hierarchies. Calculated fields to user server side logic to compute values in an entity. Production ready pro developer SDK, based on the proven xRM SDK, allowing CDS for Apps access from any pro-dev application. Generally available from early May
- 19. Getting Started Sign up – work or school account Getting started for free: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/ Community Plan: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/communityplan/ Use PowerApps Studio: Web Short videos https://www.youtube.com/ Keywords:Audrie Gordon PowerApps getting started In the long term: Microsoft Flow and PowerApps sessions at Microsoft Ignite https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sessions-ignite-2017/ Follow the blog: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ Follow on Twitter: @powerapps Join the community: aka.ms/powerapps-community PowerApps in a day: aka.ms/appinaday One scenario – choose one of two datasources – SharePoint or CDS
- 20. Strategic Considerations Updates to PowerApps/Flow/Teams/etc are frequent The PowerApps team uses 3-week sprints Don’t even think about packaging up the PowerApps Studio App Learn to tolerate rapid change – Industry asked for it! Turning these tools off will just push people to other platforms There will always be gaps Most gaps can be worked around effectively PowerApps team are very up-front with their backlog
- 21. How to position PowerApps If your organisation is super-conservative, risk averse and still on Windows 7 - “We are not building a production app.We are piloting ideas without the risk and expense of custom development. Let’s face it, users don’t know what they want…” If your organisation is a bit hipster & uses terms from the start-up world like “minimum viable product (MVP)” and “fail forward…” - “PowerApps allows us to quickly test our most critical assumptions at low cost and low risk and develop an MVP…”