Project App in a Day Workshop Pre-registration

This Microsoft sponsored workshop designed to get hands on experience with Microsoft Project and Power Platform technologies – Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Common Data Service. The goal is to provide you with an understanding of the extensibility of the Project for the web data model (CDS) with Microsoft’s Power Platform. Together we will build a flexible project management solution. Registration required, spots are limited.

Technologies covered:

• Project for the web: Project for the web, formerly known as Project service, is Microsoft’s most recent offering for cloud-based work, and project management. Project for the web provides simple, powerful work management capabilities and can be used by project managers and team members, to plan and manage work of any size. You will learn how to perform build customization’s to the standard offering.
• Power Apps: A software-as-a-service application platform that enables power users in line of business roles to easily build and deploy custom business apps. You will learn how to build Canvas and Model-driven style of apps.
• Common Data Service (CDS): Makes it easier to bring your data together and quickly create powerful apps using a compliant and scalable data service and app platform that’s integrated into Power Apps.
• Power Automate: Connects workflows to hundreds of data sources using a library of connectors and Common Data Service – bringing your data together for a single source of truth while you uncover insights as well as customize and extend Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure capabilities.
• Power BI: A collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.

Lab Structure and Learning Objectives

1. Project for the Web

Introduces you to Project for the Web. You will learn how to:

• Explore the standard functionalities of Project for the Web

2. Project for the web App and Common Data Service

Introduces you to extending the standard Model-driven Project App. You will learn how to:

• Have an overview of the standard entities and relationships of Project for the Web
• Create a Project Charter form
• Extend standard Project entity with custom fields
• Customize the standard Project Model-driven app
• Customize forms for the Model-driven app
• Create a business process flow to guide users through a stage-gate

3. Extending with a custom Program entity

Introduces you to custom entities in CDS and you will create a program entity with a relationship to the standard project entity. You will learn how to:

• Create custom Program entity
• Create a one-to-many relationship between the Program and Project entities
• Calculate program budgets using custom calculated fields
• Rollup data (budgets) from projects to program level using roll-up fields
• Create a new Program Management group in the site map

4. Power BI – Project for the web report template

Introduces you to Power Automate which is used to automate workflows with external data sources: You will learn to:

• Connect the Project for the Web Power BI template to your Common Data Service environment
• Add your Program entity to the data model
• Extend visuals in the standard template to your program entity
• Embed your Power BI report directly in the standard Project Model-driven app

We are offering two dates for the Project App in a Day Workshop. Both dates will cover the same material. Spaces are limited, sign up today!