Create and Manage Canvas Apps with Power Apps
What you will be able to do afterwards
By the end of the day you can take a process that lives in a spreadsheet and turn it into a working app your team uses on a phone. Not a demo you watched. One you built, connected to real data, and published under your own name.
Why learn it with us rather than free
The Power Apps material is on Microsoft Learn, free, and if you are self-motivated, you can work through it.
What a course gives you is pace, a trainer who can answer the question the documentation does not, and a running scenario you build end to end rather than seven disconnected exercises.
It also gives you someone to ask three weeks later, when you are building the real thing and it will not behave.
What the day covers
Seven modules, eight labs, and a running scenario. You are a Power Apps consultant at Contoso Pet Boarding, and customers want to submit boarding requests without ringing the office. By the close of play you will have designed the data model, built the app and published it.
Get started with Power Apps canvas apps
Where canvas apps sit alongside model-driven apps, Power Automate and Power BI. The Maker portal, Studio, Mobile and the admin centre. Six ways to start an app, and choosing between SharePoint, Excel, Dataverse and SQL as your backing store.
Get started with Microsoft Dataverse
Tables, columns and relationships. The four table types, primary columns and the advanced options you cannot switch off later. Importing with Power Query, and building one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.
Customise a canvas app
Galleries, forms, labels and text inputs, and the control properties that do most of the work. Searching and sorting. Your first Power Fx formulas, and screen navigation with Navigate and Back.
How to build the user interface
Themes and what they control, editing your app with Copilot in natural language, branding through Fill, Hover and Border states, defining brand colours once in App Formulas, and designing for phone and tablet.
Work with external data
Actions, triggers and the anatomy of a connector. The Office 365 Users connector. Collections. Then Patch in depth: creating rows with Defaults, updating existing rows, and combining Patch with ForAll and Filter to write many records at once.
Write data in a canvas app
How forms really work: card controls bound to a single record. The three form modes and switching between them. Customising cards, linking a form to a gallery selection, and handling SubmitForm through OnSuccess, OnFailure and LastSubmit.
Publish, share and maintain your app
Publishing a version, sharing with users and co-owners, version history and restoring any version from the last six months, app name and icon, and exporting as an .msapp file or package.
Microsoft Official Courseware, last refreshed by Microsoft in October 2025. That refresh added Copilot-assisted app editing, expanded coverage of the Patch function, and a container-based single-screen app demonstration. Microsoft updates the platform frequently, so the exact syllabus can change without notice.
Who this course is for
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What is included
Genuinely hands-on
This is not a day of watching slides. Three and a half of the day’s hours are spent in eight labs, and they build on each other rather than standing alone, so what you finish with is one working app rather than eight disconnected fragments. That is what makes the skill stick once you are back at your desk.
Three ways to take it
Online
Live with a real trainer and full class interaction, scheduled regularly. Same trainer, same labs and same courseware as the classroom.
In person
Small cohorts at our UK training venues, and the side conversations that make training stick.
Onsite / closed
At your offices, tailored to your data, your processes and your tenant, so the running scenario becomes one of your own. Best value for four or more. Ask for a quote.
Self-paced (Launching soon)
On-demand modules to work through at your own pace. Register your interest and we will let you know when it goes live.
What it costs to not do it
Every organisation has a spreadsheet that should have been an app. It started as a quick way to track something. Now it is emailed round twice a week, three people have their own version, and nobody is quite sure which one is right. Meanwhile, the request to build a proper system has been sitting in the IT backlog for eight months.
Most organisations already have Power Apps inside their Microsoft licences and barely touch it. The cost is not the course. It is the eight-month backlog, the duplicated data, and the hours a week spent chasing a process that a one-screen app would have handled.
One person who can build and publish a canvas app usually pays the course back on the first process they fix. That is the honest maths, and it is why a day at the keyboard is worth more than a month on the waiting list.
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The course ends. The support does not.
The hard questions rarely arrive on the day. They turn up a fortnight later, on your own data, when something will not behave. Both of these are included in the price.
Trainer email support
Email our support team with the questions that come up as you apply it to your own reports. Not a ticket queue, and not a chatbot. The people who teach you, answering the thing you are actually stuck on.
The learner community
A private community for people who have trained with us, with a board for each technology. Ask questions, read what others have hit, and get answers from our trainers and other delegates. Your access does not expire when the three months do.
Where this fits
The Power Platform learning path
PL-7001 is the introduction. Here is what comes before and after, so you land in the right place.
App in a Day
Never opened Power Apps at all? Build your first app in a day, free. The gentlest place to start.
PL-7001 Canvas Apps
Build, connect, style and publish a canvas app. The one-day introduction to making things with Power Apps.
Book PL-7001 alongside PL-7002 or PL-7003 and you can add the optional Applied Workshop day, where you build something of your own from a blank page: a group discussion to shape the idea, a design phase, half a day building, then sharing what you made with the rest of the group. Your trainer circulates throughout, and there is no model answer.
Others in Power Platform
Pulled automatically from the same category, so this stays current as courses come and go.
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Ask before you book
Tell us what you already do with Excel and SharePoint and what you are trying to build. If PL-7001 is right we will say so, and if the free App in a Day or PL-900 suits you better, we will say that instead.
Onsite & closed courses
For three or more people, onsite is usually better value, and we can use your own data and the reports your team actually needs to build.
Not sure PL-7001 is the right course?
Tell us a little about where you are with Power Apps and what you are trying to build. A trainer will come back to you, usually the same working day.
If PL-7001 is right for you, we will say so. If the free App in a Day or the broader PL-900 suits you better, we will say that instead.
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What you get that you will not get everywhere
Genuinely hands-on
Three and a half hours of the day are spent in eight labs, and they build on each other. You leave with one working app, not eight fragments.
Trainers who do the job
A Microsoft Certified Trainer who spends the rest of the week consulting on the platform they teach. Real questions get real answers.
Real prices, published
Every course shows its price and what is included. No “contact us for pricing”, no surprises.
We say when not to book
If the free App in a Day is enough, or you really need PL-400, we will tell you. Right course over any course.
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Upcoming dates
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Oct
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PL-7001: Create and Manage Canvas AppsLive Online 09:00 – 17:00 |
£395.00 |
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Nov
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PL-7001: Create and Manage Canvas AppsLive Online 09:00 – 17:00 |
£395.00 |
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PL-7001: Create and Manage Canvas AppsLive Online 09:00 – 17:00 |
£395.00 |