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Announcing the PowerApps how-to video series

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Today we're excited to announce our how-to video series on the Official PowerApps YouTube channel. These videos teach a wide variety of app building techniques, while diving deep into various formulas and why they're being used. These videos reference our PowerApps Office templates, which will enable you to get hands on in your own PowerApps environment.

Are you an IT Administrator or Cloud Solutions Provider? Part of the series is dedicated for app demonstrations as well as setup and administration of our various templates.  

Scroll down to see our recently released videos as well as the upcoming schedule

YouTube Videos

 

Recently Released

Deep-dive videos

  Video Template 
How to work with Outlook calendars

Learn how to build and customize PowerApps with this deep dive into working with Outlook calendars for the Out of Office PowerApps Template. Utilizing your Office 365 data, this app lets you set your Outlook autoreplies, clear your calendar during your absence, and send a calendar invite alerting your coworkers you will be out of office. 

Out of Office
How to build a people picker in PowerApps with Azure AD

Learn how to create a people picker component in Azure Active Directory in PowerApps. Dive deep into the Out of Office sample app allowing you to set your out-of-office message and clear out your calendar for the duration of your absence. Test it out! 

Out of Office
How to integrate Microsoft Planner into PowerApps

Discover how to integrate Microsoft Planner into PowerApps with the QuickTask sample template. QuickTask allows you to triage your Outlook emails quickly into plans using Microsoft Planner. 

Quick Task
How to create email templates in PowerApps

Learn how to customize Outlook by creating dynamic email templates in PowerApps with Estimator Pro. By using Estimator Pro, you can view the location and details of your customer appointments, build project estimates, and send the details to customers all within a single app. 

Estimator Pro
How to create a pop-up light box in PowerApps

Discover how you can create a pop-up dialog in PowerApps with the Shoutouts sample app. The Shoutouts app encourages coworkers to share job-related compliments and sends automatic email notifications to recipients’ managers. 

Shoutouts
How to find available meeting times

This video provides a deep dive into the Meeting Capture PowerApps sample template. Learn how to find available meeting times for all meeting attendees when building in the Meeting Capture app.

Meeting Capture
How to export content from PowerApps to OneNote

Learn how the Meeting Capture sample app was built with a deep dive into the functions used to export content to OneNote.

Meeting Capture

 

Demo, setup & administration

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Demonstration and setup for Out of Office

The Out of Office app is a mobile-friendly way to quickly set your out of office message with just a few clicks. Utilizing your Office 365 data, this app lets you set your Outlook autoreplies, clear your calendar during your absence, and send a calendar invite alerting your coworkers you will be out of office. 

Out of Office
End to end demonstration for Quick Task

In this video, get an end-to-end functional demonstration for the Quick Task PowerApps sample. The Quick Task PowerApps sample allows support and customer service professionals to quickly triage a distribution list and create tasks for follow up.  

Quick Task
How to install and setup the Meeting Capture sample template

Learn how to set up the Meeting Capture PowerApps sample template and make it your own.

Meeting Capture
End-to-End Demo of Meeting Capture

This video provides an end-to-end functional demonstration for the Meeting Capture PowerApp sample template. 

Meeting Capture

 

Upcoming Schedule

Title Template Reference Target date
How to work with Outlook emails in PowerApps Quick Task 18-Oct
Installation and setup instructions for Quick Task Quick Task 23-Oct
End to end demonstration of Estimator Pro Estimator Pro 25-Oct
How to set up and install the Estimator Pro sample app Estimator Pro 30-Oct
How to create menus in PowerApps Estimator Pro 1-Nov
End to end Demo of Company Pulse Company Pulse 6-Nov
How to set up and install the Company Pulse sample app Company Pulse 8-Nov
How to display data from SharePoint wiki pages Company Pulse 13-Nov
How to create configuration settings in PowerApps Company Pulse 15-Nov
End to end Demo of Book a Room Book a Room 20-Nov
How to install and setup the Book a Room sample Book a Room 22-Nov
How to find available meeting rooms Book a Room 27-Nov
How to find future calendar events Book a Room 29-Nov
How to filter and sort galleries in PowerApps Leave Request TBD
How to use Microsoft Excel as a data source Leave Request TBD
End-to-End demonstration of Leave Request Leave Request TBD
Leave Request setup and installation Leave Request TBD