Microsoft Power Platform Developer Training (PL-400)

Course 8588

  • Duration: 5 days
  • Language: English
  • Level: Advanced

The Microsoft Power Platform helps organisations optimise their operations by simplifying, automating and transforming business tasks and processes. In this Advanced Microsoft Power Platform Developer course, students will learn how to build Power Apps, Automate Flows and extend the platform to complete business requirements and solve complex business problems.

PL-400 Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

PL-400 Course Benefits

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Create a technical design.
  • Configure Common Data Service.
  • Create and configure Power Apps.
  • Configure business process automation.
  • Extend the user experience.
  • Extend the platform.
  • Develop Integrations.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have already taken Learning Tree Course 8585, Microsoft Power Platform App Maker Training (PL-100) and Learning Tree Course 8587, Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant Training (PL-200), or have equivalent experience before attending this advanced course.

Exam information

This class prepares an individual for Exam PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer.

PL-400 Training Outline

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

In this module, you will:

  • Discover the value and critical features of Dataverse.
  • Learn about the value and critical features of model-driven apps.
  • Explore sample model-driven template apps.

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 simple or complex apps.

In this module, you will:

  • Learn about model-driven app design
  • Create a model-driven app

Dataverse tables are similar to tables in a database. Every instance of a Dataverse database includes a base set of tables that provide structure for data commonly used by business applications.

In this module, you'll learn about the following:

  • Tables in Dataverse.
  • Types of tables that are available in Dataverse.
  • Creating a custom table.
  • Enabling attachments within a table.
  • Which licensing requirements to apply to use each type of table?

Do you want to create new data columns or use existing standardised columns for your business solutions? This module will show you how to manage or create new columns within a table in Dataverse.

In this module, you will:

  • Learn what a column is in Dataverse.
  • Learn about the types of columns that are available in Dataverse.
  • Add a column to a table.
  • Learn what a primary name column is in Dataverse.
  • Identify restrictions that are associated with columns.
  • Create an auto-numbering column.
  • Create an alternate key.

Do you want to create standardised choice lists that you can use across your Power Apps? This module will show you how to create new or use standard choice lists called choices in Dataverse.

In this module, you will:

  • Learn about choices.
  • Explore the standard choices.
  • Create a new choice or modify an existing one.

Do you need to create relationships between tables? This module will show how and why you can separate data into tables and how to relate between tables to build complex and robust business solutions. It will also explain the different kinds of relationships that you can define between tables in Dataverse.

In this module, you'll learn:

  • Why you should segment data that is used by your solutions into many tables.
  • Why do you need to relate one table to another?
  • How to build relationships between tables.
  • How to select the proper relationship type when you're building solutions with Dataverse.

The ability to build business rules that ensure consistent business logic, whatever app is accessing that data set, is imperative to a successful business operation. This module will show you how to build business rules triggered anytime they're used within Dataverse.

In this module, you'll learn how to:

  • Define business rules in Dataverse.
  • Create and manage business rules in Dataverse.

Do you want to use rollup or calculation columns? This module shows you how to build calculations or rollups defined and triggered within the data in Dataverse, regardless of the app that accesses that data set.

In this module, you'll learn how to:

  • Define a rollup column.
  • Create a rollup column.
  • Identify a calculation column.
  • Create a calculation column.

Do you want to use security roles to limit user permissions? This module will show you how to set permissions to limit access to an environment. Or limit which users can view, edit, or delete data in an environment within Dataverse.

In this module, you will:

  • Learn about security roles and apply them to users in an environment.
  • Learn how to add users to an environment.
  • Understand security concepts in Dataverse.
  • Identify default security roles.
  • Create a custom role.
  • Create a custom security role and assign it to entities and users.
  • Learn how to configure Dataverse teams for security
  • Learn how to configure Dataverse group teams for security

Learn the basics of Power Apps and how to use it in your organisation.

In this module, you will:

  • Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient.
  • Learn how to use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps.
  • Learn about the different ways to build an app in Power Apps.
  • Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook.

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

In this module, you will:

  • Change the layout of a gallery.
  • Change the data that a control shows.
  • Change the order in which fields appear.
  • Change the control with which a user provides information.
  • Explore controls on each screen of an app.
  • Format a number as a price.
  • Color prices based on their values.
  • Explore formulas in a generated app.

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

In this module, you will:

  • Learn how to view and restore app versions.
  • Explore how to share an app, including permissions and notifications.
  • Learn about what environments are, how to create them, and how to manage security.
  • Find more information about Power Apps.

App users can only navigate through the navigation options provided by an app developer, and this module is designed to help you build a good navigation experience for your canvas app.

In this module, you will:

  • Understand how navigation works in a canvas app
  • Use the Navigate and Back functions
  • Understand the different ways these functions can be invoked

Do you want to build a better UI for app users? This module helps you do that using themes, icons, images, personalisation, different form factors, and controls.

In this module, you will:

  • Understand the basics of building the UI through themes, icons, control customisation, and images.
  • Use personalisation in a canvas app.
  • Understand the differences between the Tablet and Mobile form factors.

Learn the basics of Power Apps and how you can use them in your organisation.

In this module, you will:

  • Explore how Power Apps can make your business more efficient.
  • Learn how to use different technologies to perform different tasks in Power Apps.
  • Learn about the different ways to build an app in Power Apps.
  • Create your first app from data in an Excel workbook

Controls help create a better experience for the user and collect the appropriate data. This module will help you understand and use Controls.

In this module, you will:

  • Understand how to use controls in a canvas app
  • Use the different types of controls
  • Understand how Galleries and Forms related to controls

In this module, you'll learn best practices around testing and documenting your Power Apps application.

In this module, you will:

  • Learn about the different types of test plans and the components of a good test plan
  • Identify and discuss optimisation tools and performance tuning
  • Learn about the benefits of documenting your application

Imperative development techniques can help you achieve the goal for your app. You will learn about different development methods and different variables in Power Apps.

In this module, you will:

  • Understand imperative vs. declarative development
  • Understand the variables in Power Apps
  • Understand when to utilise each of the three different types of variables

Do you need complex formulas in your app? This module can help you write those formulas.

In this module, you will:

  • Utilise formulas that process multiple records
  • Use the Concat function to combine text from multiple records
  • Utilise the Countrows, CountIf, ForAll
  • Perform math operations on data in a table

With some Power Apps canvas apps, a form is not the solution. This module will focus on performing custom updates when your data is not in a form.

In this module, you will:

  • Use the Patch function to update your data
  • Understand how the Defaults function is used to create new records with Patch
  • Utilise the Remove and RemoveIf functions to delete records
  • Determine whether to use Clear and Collect or ClearCollect in their scenario

Do you want to test your app and improve its performance? This module will help you understand how to test an app and improve performance.

In this module, you will:

  • Use best practices to improve the performance of your app
  • Understand how to test an app best
  • Use Fiddler for troubleshooting

Do you want to improve a user's experience in your canvas app? This module will show you how to work with relational data to provide a good experience for app users.

In this module, you will:

  • Understand relational data
  • Use relational data to improve an app user's experience in Power Apps
  • Understand how to use relational data in Microsoft Dataverse

It's essential to learn how to work with data source limits. You need to understand the various limits and variables that go into those limits to best work with data in Power Apps. This will help you choose the best data source for an app to meet your requirements.

In this module, you will:

  • Understand the different limits of different data sources
  • Understand how functions, predicates, and operators all play roles in the limits
  • Use this new understanding to choose the best data source for an app

Custom connectors can be used with your canvas app when a built-in connector is unavailable. This module focuses on using custom connectors.

In this module, you will:

  • Understand custom connectors and the basics of how to build one
  • Understand the custom connector lifecycle
  • Use Postman with a custom connector

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

In this module, you will:

  • Create a flow that automatically saves email attachments
  • Learn how to create a button flow to send yourself a reminder

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

In this module, you will:

  • Create and process approval requests
  • Build a flow that runs at recurring time intervals
  • Create a business process flow with conditions

Get the most out of your data using functions to create expressions.

In this module, you will:

  • Use one or more functions to create expressions.
  • Use functions to retrieve data, change data, evaluate data, and more

This module aims to give a broad-scoped overview of the developer experience related to the Microsoft Power Platform. It will cover a high-level introduction to how the ecosystem is represented, with the intended audience being a software developer with limited experience working with Microsoft Power Platform.

In this module, you'll be able to:

  • Explain what solution components exist within Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Explain key components of Microsoft Dataverse and the Common Data Model.
  • Explain what Azure solution elements relate to Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Explain what AI Solutions exist as it relates to Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Navigate the Developer Guide successfully to support their Microsoft Power Platform development efforts.

This module will focus on the available developer tools to help you perform development activities with Microsoft Power Platform.

In this module, you will:

  • Install NuGet packages available for Microsoft Power Platform development
  • Work with the Configuration Migration tool
  • Work with Package Deployer
  • Leverage Solution Packager to isolate features
  • Run the Plugin Registration Tool

This module will focus on the underlying solution architecture from a technical perspective and what extensibility options exist. It will also cover the ever-important element of Microsoft Power Platform development: the decision-making process of determining when to use configuration versus code.

In this module, you will:

  • Identify which elements architecturally comprise Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Learn about the areas of extensibility that are available to customise Microsoft Power Platform through code.
  • Discover different approaches to common business scenarios for extensibility using configuration versus code.

This module aims to give an introductory overview of Microsoft Power Platform SDKs that are available from Microsoft via NuGet.

In this module, you will:

  • Explain what functions can be executed against Microsoft Power Platform via Microsoft Power Platform SDKs.
  • Perform basic operations against Microsoft Power Platform, such as create/read/update/delete operations.

This module aims to provide an in-depth overview of plugins related to Microsoft Power Platform development. This module will review how and when plugins are implemented, how they are registered and deployed, and the various configuration options available during plugin registration.

In this module, you will:

  • Learn how to extend plugins.

This module will review how to achieve standard user experience automation procedures through Client Script. This module is intended to serve as a practical guide for solving real-world scenarios frequently encountered during Microsoft Power Platform implementations.

In this module, you will:

  • Write client script to perform everyday actions as listed in the module units

This module will focus on educating developers on performing standard techniques while automating business process flows and explaining the context of when these scenarios might be applied.

In this module, you will:

  • Automate business process flow actions by using JavaScript/TypeScript API methods

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

In this module, you will:

  • Learn about Power Apps component framework architecture.
  • Learn about Power Apps component tooling.

Build a custom Power Apps component, create a code component solution package, and then test and debug a code component.

In this module, you will:

  • Create a custom Power Apps component.
  • Create a code component solution package.
  • Test and debug a code component.
  • Learn fundamental concepts of Dataverse auditing.

Get details on addressing more complex scenarios in a Power Apps component framework. This module covers using client frameworks such as React and Angular within a component and addresses scenarios such as file upload, localisation, and integration with Microsoft Dataverse Web API.

In this module, you will:

  • Use formatting API in a Power Apps component.
  • Use Dataverse web API in a Power Apps component.

Learn about working with the Dataverse Web API.

In this module, you will:

  • Interact with Dataverse Web API by using Postman.
  • Authorise against Dataverse with OAuth.
  • Use OData to query data.

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

In this module, you will:

  • Publish Dataverse events to Microsoft Azure Service Bus.
  • Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Dataverse events.

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PL-400 Course FAQs

Candidates for this course design, develop, secure, and troubleshoot Power Platform solutions. Candidates implement components of a solution that include application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualisations.

In addition, candidates will gain applied knowledge of Power Platform services, including an in-depth understanding of capabilities, boundaries, and constraints. 

Candidates should have development experience that includes JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful Web Services, ASP.NET, and Power BI.

Yes, this class replaces Learning Tree class 8562: Microsoft PowerApps + Dynamics 365 Developer and Microsoft Exam MB-400.