PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer (beta)

Learn how to build a custom Power Apps component, create a code component solution package, and then test and debug a code component.

Learn how to get started with Microsoft Power Apps component framework.

Get details on how to address more complex scenarios as it applies to a Power Apps Component framework. This module covers how to leverage client frameworks such as React and Angular within a component, along with how to address scenarios such as file upload, localization, and integration with Common Data Service Web API.

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Dynamics 365 licensing is changing. Microsoft Learn content may reflect either the updated branding or earlier branding during our period of transition. For more information about these licensing changes, see Dynamics 365 Licensing Update.

Design and deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps on the Microsoft Power Platform. Best Practices during this process will decrease the chances of technical issues in the future related to poor application lifecycle management process and storage limitations. The first step before the customization and configuration of the solution takes place is the configuration of your online tenant and online environment

Important
Dynamics 365 licensing is changing. Microsoft Learn content may reflect either the updated branding or earlier branding during our period of transition. For more information about these licensing changes, see Dynamics 365 Licensing Update.

Many organizations implementing Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement apps on the Microsoft Power Platform are unaware of the amazing capabilities included with their subscription. By default, your subscription includes Microsoft Portals, Gamification, and Voice of the Customer surveys, in addition to technical capabilities like backup and restore, and integrated planning for updates and upgrades. This module focuses on showcasing the great default capabilities you have access to.

Important
Dynamics 365 licensing is changing. Microsoft Learn content may reflect either the updated branding or earlier branding during our period of transition. For more information about these licensing changes, see Dynamics 365 Licensing Update.

Manage every Microsoft Dynamics 365 user with access to all the functionality and data included on their solution through a client. Let’s focus on the pros and cons of every client and best practices when deploying these clients.

Important
Dynamics 365 licensing is changing. Microsoft Learn content may reflect either the updated branding or earlier branding during our period of transition. For more information about these licensing changes, see Dynamics 365 Licensing Update.

As the world becomes more mobile, understanding Microsoft Power Platform mobile capabilities allows functional consultants not only ensure seamless access from mobile devices, but also take advantage of its unique form factor when implementing Dynamics 365 solutions.

Learn the basics of AI Builder usage in Power Automate and how it can benefit your organization. 

Power Automate is an online workflow service that automates actions across the most common apps and services.

Power Automate is an online workflow service that automates actions across the most common apps and services. In this module, you’ll build more advanced flows to streamline your business, save time, and work more efficiently.

Tenant and environment admins use the Power Automate Admin center to manage data policies and environments for Power Automate deployments.

Automate your approval processes, infuse intelligence, and integrate legacy apps with Power Automate, UI flows, and AI Builder, which are all part of Microsoft Power Platform.

Do you want to quickly build apps with little to no code? This module will focus on the building blocks of Common Data Service and model-driven apps. These key components will help you build quick business apps in your organization.

Common Data Service lets you securely store and manage data that’s used by business applications. Standard and custom entities within Common Data Service provide a secure and cloud-based storage option for your data.

Model-driven app design is an approach that focuses on quickly adding components to your apps. These components include dashboards, forms, views, and charts. With little or no code, you can make apps that are simple or complex.

Important
Dynamics 365 licensing is changing. Microsoft Learn content may reflect either the updated branding or earlier branding during our period of transition. For more information about these licensing changes, see Dynamics 365 Licensing Update.

In this module, you’ll learn about forms, grids, views, charts and dashboards that can be used in model driven apps.

Learn the basics of Power Apps and how you can use it in your organization.

Learn how to customize an app by adding controls, images, and logic.

Manage app versions, app sharing, and environments in Power Apps.

How can you find, collect, and clean data from different sources? Power BI is a tool for making sense of your data. You will learn tricks to make data-gathering easier.

Learn what Power BI is, including its building blocks and how they work together.

Connect Power BI to multiple data sources to create reports. Define the relationship between your data sources.

Create and customize visuals to present data in compelling and insightful ways.

Turn your business intelligence data into data insights by creating and configuring Power BI dashboards.

Publish and share your Power BI reports and dashboards to teammates in your organization or to everyone on the web.

When building a Power Apps portal, there are various techniques, best practices and features that portal administrators should consider. This module will cover the various troubleshooting tools available as well as why to use the portal checker.

There are instances where you may need to integrate your portal to web-based technologies to extend the scope of your application. This module will focus on understanding the process and options to integrate a Power Apps portal with a number of related technologies such as SharePoint, Power BI, model-driven charts, and others.

This module will focus on the Power Apps Portals administration and using the Power Apps portals admin center. There are a number of other actions and features than can be enabled to enhance portal functionality.

As an individual, the external user may have a number of identities from which to choose when registering and accessing a portal. It is important to understand the different ways to onboard portal users and the options that can be made available to portal users for validating their identity and maintaining their profiles. Power Apps portals support a variety of authentication options and provide powerful user-management capabilities. Administrators have a choice between using local authentication or delegate authentication to a trusted authentication provider. Multiple authentication providers and various industry standards are supported.

Learn about working with the Common Data Service Web API.

Gain an in-depth overview of options available within Common Data Service to integrate data and events to Azure.

Create custom Power Apps portal web templates.

The ability to easily surface and interact with Common Data Service data on a website is one of the core benefits for implementing a Power Apps portal. There are several methods to surface and display Common Data Service data and having an understanding of the different options will result in successful portal implementations. This module will focus on the techniques and methods to display and interact with Common Data Service data on the Power Apps portal.

The world of business software applications has embraced a movement toward building apps using low-code/no-code methods. This is one of the pillars of the Power Platform including Power Apps portals. However, in many projects there is often a set of functionality or features that can only be addressed with advanced software development techniques. This module will focus on understanding and extending portal functionality using software development as well as the use of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) techniques to deploy portals.