Developing Canvas Apps with Microsoft Power Apps — Lesson 1: Canvas App Architecture and Data

Learning Objectives

• Translate requirements into personas, screens, data, rules, and acceptance criteria
• Connect to Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and approved sources
• Plan delegation, security, offline needs, performance, and solution structure

Detailed Topics

• Translate requirements into personas: Translate requirements into personas, screens, data, rules, and acceptance criteria
• Connect to Dataverse: Connect to Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and approved sources
• Plan delegation: Plan delegation, security, offline needs, performance, and solution structure

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, application, automation, analysis, or administration 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

Create a canvas-app design and data-access plan.

• 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 Canvas App Architecture and Data in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.