PCF – Power Apps Code Components in a Day — Lesson 3: Datasets, Events, and Platform Services

Learning Objectives

• Work with dataset records, columns, paging, sorting, filtering, and selection
• Use platform context, navigation, web API, device, and utility services
• Handle errors, loading, empty data, and permission boundaries

Detailed Topics

• Work with dataset records: Work with dataset records, columns, paging, sorting, filtering, and selection
• Use platform context: Use platform context, navigation, web API, device, and utility services
• Handle errors: Handle errors, loading, empty data, and permission boundaries

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, application, automation, analysis, security, or development workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Develop a dataset component with interactive events.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Datasets, Events, and Platform Services in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.