Power Apps guides
Microsoft's low-code platform for building business applications. See the glossary entry →
17 guides touch on power apps.
- Copilot Studio explained
Copilot Studio is Microsoft's low-code platform for building custom Copilots and agents. Here's what it does and where it fits.
- Dataverse explained
Dataverse is Microsoft's relational database for the Power Platform. Here's what it does and when you actually need it.
- Integrating Microsoft 365 with Dynamics 365
How Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 work together — shared identity, Teams integration, common Power Platform, Copilot.
- Microsoft 365 Frontline plans deep dive
F1 vs F3 Microsoft 365 plans for deskless workers — capabilities, sharing, and deployment patterns.
- Microsoft Forms: branching logic and quiz mode
Advanced Microsoft Forms: branching that behaves, quiz mode with auto-grading, practice mode, Excel sync, Copilot in Forms, and when to move to Power Apps.
- Microsoft Lists templates and patterns
Practical patterns for using Microsoft Lists — templates, column formatting, integrations, and where Lists fits best.
- Microsoft Viva Goals and OKRs after retirement
Viva Goals is retired: what it did, what happened to the data, and how to run OKRs in Microsoft 365 now with Planner, Loop, Viva Engage, and Power Platform.
- Power Apps canvas app performance tuning
Common reasons canvas apps are slow and the patterns that fix them.
- Power Fx primer
A practical introduction to Power Fx, the formula language used across Power Apps and the Power Platform.
- Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Toolkit
Microsoft's free toolkit of apps and flows for governing Power Platform at scale.
- Power Platform custom connectors
How to build custom connectors for Power Automate and Power Apps — wrapping any REST API as a Power Platform connector.
- Power Platform licensing explained
The Power Platform licensing model — what's free, what's premium, and how to plan for it.
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx) overview
SPFx is Microsoft's modern client-side development model for extending SharePoint and Microsoft 365. Here's how it works.
- SharePoint list and column formatting (JSON)
How JSON-based formatting customises SharePoint list views without code — what's possible and where to start.
- SharePoint Lists vs Microsoft Lists
SharePoint lists, Microsoft Lists, Dataverse, Excel — picking the right place for structured data.
- What is Power Apps?
What Power Apps is: each app type and what it's for, where Dataverse fits, what's really included with Microsoft 365, and when not to use it.
- What is Power Automate?
What Power Automate is: cloud flows, desktop flows and RPA, what Microsoft 365 includes for free, and the governance that keeps it from becoming shadow IT.