Course outline for MS Power Pack
This course is a five-day course designed to cover MS Power apps and work with Share point and gradually move into Power BI. This training module starts from the basics of the Power Platform and takes you to building fully functional apps that interact with external data sources.
The course is extremely hands-on and will be conducted via projects and real data sourced primarily from Kaggle.
Expected Outcome
The learners by the end of this course, may be expected to:
- Understand the usage of MS POwer Apps
- How to add functionality to the apps that are built using PowerApps
- How to connect PowerApps to external sources
- How to customize SharePoint forms using Power Apps
- How to perform additional functionalities to SharePoint forms
- One Drive integration
- Learn about the Power BI editor and environment.
- Explore Connectors
- Basic Transformations
- String and Numeric tools
- Index & Conditional Columns
- Grouping & Aggregating Data
- Filtering & Cross-Filtering
- Hiding Fields from the Power BI Report View
- DAx Intro
- Calculated Columns vs. Measures
- Row Context vs. Filter Context in Power BI
- Syntax for DAX
- Common Power BI Functions
- Basic Date & Time Formulas
Note: The above is just a guideline and must not in any way be construed as a guarantee either implied or expressed in any way. The actual outcome de[ends largely on the participants’ intellect and commitment.
Prerequisites
- MS Live account
- MS Windows System
- Dual Screen
- Internet Connection
- Basic understand of filing systems
- BAsic understanding of Internet operations (upload / download / access shared resources)
- Internet Connection
- Ability to communicate in English and understand technical terms
Course Outline
- Adding and working with controls
- Working with container control
- Understanding control colors and opacity
- Dynamically changing control properties at run-time
- Grouping controls
- Power Apps Simple vs Complex controls
- If and Contextual variables in Power Apps
- Text Label and Text Input
- Adding some actions to Text input
- HTML text and Rich Text Editor
- Working with Image and Video controls
- Working with Buttons, Shapes and Icons
- Checkbox, Toggle and Date Picker are the easiest to work with
- Dropdown, List and Radio
- Simple controls review
- Connecting Power Apps to Microsoft Excel on SharePoint/OneDrive
- Using Collect, Patch and Remove with Microsoft Excel files
- Display form and Edit form
- How to use "Edit form"
- SharePoint and Power Apps - Hosting Power apps inside SharePoint
- Preparing SharePoint site for our demo
- Customizing SharePoint forms using Power Apps
- Converting a text field to Lookup in SharePoint using Power Apps
- Using SharePoint as data source for Power Apps
- Explore Connectors
- Basic Transformations
- String and Numeric tools
- Index & Conditional Columns
- Grouping & Aggregating Data
- Pivoting & Unpivoting
- Modifying, Merging & Appending Queries
- Connecting to Folders
- Normalization
- Data ("Fact") Tables vs. Lookup ("Dimension") Tables
- Creating Relationships
- Schemas and comparisons
- Active vs. Inactive Relationships
- Relationship Cardinality
- Connecting Multiple Data Tables
- Filtering & Cross-Filtering
- Hiding Fields from the Power BI Report View
- DAx Intro
- Calculated Columns vs. Measures
- Row Context vs. Filter Context in Power BI
- Syntax for DAX
- Common Power BI Functions
- Basic Date & Time Formulas
Practical, connected learning
My wider training approach brings hands-on implementation and systems thinking together, connecting technology with real operational needs.