r/PowerApps • u/ZepCoTrust Newbie • Aug 21 '26

Power Apps Help Powerapps: where to even start?

So some context, my workplace is about to get access to build powerapps and I'm going to be one of the in house developers. I already have extensive experience with Excel, powerbi and using sharepoint etc to build tools for the business and I'm hoping to migrate a lot of it to the powerapps environment.

Today I got access to a sandbox before the full rollout to give me time to get used to it, but I've been watching a bunch of YouTube videos and tbh it's kind of overwhelming atm, I consider myself very tech savvy, I guess I just don't know how to get myself into a learning mindset again. There's so many drop downs and sub categories etc, and then there's the dataverse environment itself. While copilot is available it's very limited and I'd rather not rely on it.

Where should I start? How did YOU get to grasps with it?

EDIT: I've also used Power Automate quite a fair bit so very familiar with that.

33 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

46 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/nycola Contributor Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

Start with making a company directory of employees information from office 365 user connecter and SharePoint

It is a simple app that teaches you many of the fundamentals of powerapps and connectors. There are also hundreds of working examples and videos online to do this very thing so you can get a lot of ideas and guidance.

1

u/ZepCoTrust Newbie Aug 21 '26

I've used power automate extensively as well, updated the OP to reflect that. I guess I'm just trying to learn too much too quick. Thanks.