Create Apps without Prior Knowledge
Create applications in no time at all – without the support of your IT department – with Power Apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Insufficient IT Resources Are
Your Challenge without Power Apps
Do you know the situation? You need new or extended functions. Now what? Hiring a developer every time may not always be in the budget. And if you have your own IT department, the employees are often working at full capacity and don’t have time to program new functionalities.
How can this dilemma be resolved? With Power Apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Benefit from More Options
through the Solution: Power Apps
The app-building system Microsoft Power Apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central enables the easy and quick creation of mobile apps and web apps without programming skills. With just a few clicks, you can select a template and layout from the various options and populate the app with your data. The best part: It’s as simple as it sounds!
You can include various data sources:
- Microsoft products like Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Third-party products like Salesforce or Dropbox
- Custom connections to other sources
Why Power Apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central?
These Are Your Benefits
For Non-Techies
Microsoft Power Apps makes app development possible for everyone. Point-and-click or drag-and-drop makes operation very intuitive and also has the Microsoft look and feel.
For Developers
Microsoft Power Apps is an extensible platform that allows developers to extend app capabilities with Azure features and customize connectors to on-premises systems.
Seamless Integration
Power Apps can be connected directly to Dynamics 365 business data without having to use an integration. After all, the data platform is the same.
Model-driven, Portal and Canvas Apps in Dynamics 365:
3 Types of Power Apps
Canvas App
The Empty App
With a canvas app, you design and create a business app on a “white canvas” in Power Apps Studio. You design the app by selecting elements and placing them using drag-and-drop. You can integrate a variety of control functions such as cameras or location detection.
It is not necessary to write code in a conventional programming language such as C#. This process in the App Designer feels like creating PowerPoint slides. You can also create expressions, for example to specify logic and work with data, just like in Excel. You are therefore completely responsible for the layout.
Model-Controlled App
About a Data Model
The model-driven apps start with your data model: Forms, views and other components are modeled based on the data from your core business and your processes in Common Data Service.
Model-driven apps automatically generate powerful user interfaces that can be used across all devices. In contrast to the development of canvas apps, where the designer has full control over the app layout, with model-driven apps a large part of the layout is determined by the components that you add to the app.
Portal Apps
Portals
With the Portals Apps, you can set up portal websites with individual content and use various sources (e.g., Power BI and Power Automate). An individual look & feel or layout of the respective brand can also be taken into account.
Users can be authenticated or anonymous – you decide. You can define the authentication requirements individually.
Power Apps Examples:
Examples from Practice for Power Apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Article Price Correction
Build a small application in a short amount of time with which you can easily adjust item prices. For example, when raw material prices fall or rise. Practical, isn’t it?
Time Recording of a Department
Build an application in just a few clicks that allows your service technicians to record their working hours on site at the customer’s premises. Simple, but so effective!
Still Have Questions About the Power Apps for Business Central?
Find Answers in the FAQs
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Power Apps is a modular app system from Microsoft. With the help of Power Apps, you can build apps quickly and easily without writing a single line of code (low-code application). A possible example would be a time recording app.
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To build an app, you can either choose from an existing layout from a template or start without a template. Within just a few clicks, you can fill the app with your data and use Microsoft products such as Microsoft 365 or Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Microsoft Dynamics NAV) etc., as well as third-party products such as Salesforce or Dropbox, as data sources.
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With a canvas app, you use the app designer to design your app by selecting and placing elements (drag-and-drop). You can integrate a variety of control functions with a click and there is no need to write code. The design is in your hands. You can compare the process to creating PowerPoint slides.
This process in the App Designer feels like creating PowerPoint slides. As in Excel, you can also create expressions for specifying logic and working with data, for example. You are therefore completely responsible for the layout yourself.
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Power Apps offers subscription plans as well as usage-based pricing. Under the subscription plans, you can either pay per user per app per month (per app plan) or per user per month (per user plan). With usage-based pricing, you pay per active user per app per month. This means you only pay when a user runs an app within a month. You can find an overview on our Prices page.
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Microsoft Power Apps is actually suitable for every company, because there is always potential for optimization. Power Apps are an excellent replacement for existing manual processes, which are often tedious and repetitive.
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Yes, Power Apps is included in some Office 365 plans, such as Office 365 E1, E3, or E5. You can access most functionalities of Power Apps with these plans. However, for some features like connecting to third-party data, you may need an additional license. You can find an overview of licensing options on our Prices page.
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Power Apps can be used on any type of device – From desktops, laptops and tablets to cell phones – whether iOS or Android.
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Yes, you can access your Power App from your tablet or smartphone when you are on the move. You can use and transmit the data from the app with or without an internet connection.
If you are offline, Power Apps saves your entries temporarily until your device is connected to the Internet again. As soon as you are online again, you do not need to do anything. Your Power App will automatically process your cached data.
An Insight into the Tool:
This Is how Microsoft Power Apps Works
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More InformationPart of the Microsoft Power Platform:
Microsoft Power Apps for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Power Apps is one of the components of the Microsoft Power platform alongside Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Pages. The core functionality of the application is to create professional apps effortlessly.
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