SharePoint 2016: No-Code Workflows

Discover how to use PowerApps and Microsoft Flow to create mobile apps and custom workflows without needing to write a single line of code.

This course demonstrates how to use PowerApps and Microsoft Flow to efficiently create mobile apps and custom workflows without needing to write a single line of code. In this course, SharePoint expert Gini Courter explains how to create a custom list in SharePoint 2016, and then how to use PowerApps to build an application. She explains how to fine-tune your app, showing how to modify the layout, format text, brand your app, and add conditional formatting. Then, she switches to Flow to show how to create a custom workflow that responds to the data entered in the app. Plus, Gini shares how to view the results of your workflow by opening your app on a mobile device and entering a record.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you need for this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Workflow Tools: The Basics

• What's a workflow?
• Overview: SharePoint workflow tools
• Signup for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow
• Import a custom list from Excel

2. Create a PowerApp

• PowerApps: The basics
• Create a PowerApp from SharePoint
• Manage your app
• Set screen layout and sort order
• Format text, modify settings, and brand your app
• Customize app detail and edit forms
• Update the data source for an app
• Update app forms
• Apply conditional formatting to a control

3. Automate the SharePoint List Using Flow

• Flow: The basics
• Create a Flow for a SharePoint list
• Add data using a mobile app
• View the Flow results

Conclusion

• Next steps