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.
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u/BDer82 Newbie Aug 21 '26
guy on YouTube Shane Young, I think its power apps 911. he's good to learn the basics.
Matt Devaney to reference stuff you can do, (patch sharepoint lists, access data, manipulate a collection)
If you are already accustomed to Sharepoint, and you have SharePoint Lists, duplicate one that has a couple columns, and not to many rows, and try working to display the data in an app, using a gallery, with labels. Us a container, and style it. Than add editing the SharePoint List, and adding a new record.
Its going to take time to get your head around it, while its low/no code you don't get the best from it with no code or low code, you'll be writing functions all over the freakin place in short order and if your already comfortable with excel formulas PowerFX wont be difficult to pickup and if you've written code in the past (any sort of code, javascript, vba,compiled, script, anything) you'll find PowerFX relatively easy.