Creating a Model-Driven App
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Introducing Model-Driven Apps
Introducing Model-Driven Apps
Model-driven apps let you explore and edit a data model using a pre-built user interface. In this lesson, we'll learn what they are and introduce the Twentycart case study for this course.
Setting Up a Solution
Setting Up a Solution
Solutions are containers that can be used to store all the objects that make up a model-driven app. In this lesson, we'll explain why to use them and create a solution for our case study.
Building the Data Model
Building the Data Model
Model-driven apps are used to interact with a Dataverse data model. In this lesson, we'll build the first table of our data model, which will store data on Twentycart's delivery vehicles.
Completing the Data Model
Completing the Data Model
Dataverse environments contain a wide variety of pre-built tables that you can adapt for your data models. In this lesson, we'll learn how to use one of these tables to store data on Twentycart's employees as part of our data model.
Creating Views
Creating Views
Views are used to view the data in the tables of our data model. In this lesson, we'll create data for the two tables in our data model.
Building Forms
Building Forms
Forms are used to modify the data in the tables of our data model. In this lesson, we'll learn about the structure of main forms, and build such a form for the Contacts table of our data model.
Completing Our Forms
Completing Our Forms
One way of enhancing forms is to include a subgrid that lets you view data from one table in a form for a related table. In this lesson, we'll create a main form for our Vehicles table that includes a subgrid of employees associated with that vehicle.
Adding Quick Forms
Adding Quick Forms
Quick View Forms and Quick Create Forms let you view or create data more quickly than using standard views and forms. In this lesson, we'll learn how to create these Quick Forms and use them in our app.
Adding a Business Process
Adding a Business Process
Business processes let you add data to a data model and validate it by following a logical sequence of steps. In this lesson, we'll learn how to build one of these processes to validate new vehicle registrations in Twentycart.
Building the App
Building the App
Once you've created all the components of an app, building the app itself is straightforward. In this lesson, we'll build the model-driven app for our Twentycart case study.
Incorporating Visualizations
Incorporating Visualizations
Power Apps includes native functionality for adding basic charts and dashboards to your model-driven apps, or you can add a Power BI dashboard to your app. We'll discuss both these options in this lesson.
Testing the App
Testing the App
After we've finished building our model-driven app, we can test it by using it as an end user would, including viewing, editing, and adding data in the model. We'll do all these tasks in this lesson.
