Power Apps Model-Driven Apps: Tutorial for Complete Beginners (2023 UPDATED)

**Brand new fully updated 2023 version of my original tutorial with over 130K views **

Power Apps model-driven apps are web-based applications built on your data model - think along the lines of a CRM system, or something you might have built with Access or any other database software - but with a full drag and drop interface, no code experience, that results in a fully accessible and responsive app. This video takes you through the core concepts of model driven apps, including tables (entities), columns (fields), views, forms and relationships - what they are, how they make up the app and how to build them. I also show you how to create a business process flow for your app, to guide the user through the steps and stages of a process.

0:00 - Intro to Model Driven Apps
1:16 - Understanding Dataverse tables
3:45 - Working with solutions
5:29 - Create a new table
13:35 - Create a relationship between tables
15:12 - Configure the Contact table
17:46 - Configure views
19:56 - Configure forms
24:58 - Add a subgrid to show data from a related table
26:18 - Configure a Business Process Flow
29:12 - Create a model driven app and navigation
31:22 - Entering data and using your app
33:34 - More learning resources

[mertozbek]

I started doing our company's system last year with zero experience - and without your videos guiding me especially in the early stages it just wouldn't have happened. Thanks so much for putting all this together it's been such a great resource 🙂

[tomtruman]

I am a voluntreer working for a NFP with some limited IT experience and none in Power Apps.Your turorials have been so helpful in enabling me to build an app for our team from sctratch. Love your appraoch which is both informative and entertaining.

[alicedwonderland]

I'm thrilled to have discovered your channel, Lisa! Brilliant work. I'm just starting with Power Apps and there were quite a few things that blew me away in this video!

[jasondumas]

Yes. Thanks Lisa. I've watched the first one as well and will plow through the updated version. I'm hoping that you cover bringing over all off the fields associated with an item lookup field. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for all of your hard work in putting these together. They are the very best place to start for beginners.

[stevenhampson]

Thanks Lisa for taking the time to update this. The original was such a fantastic resource, and watched many times, so starting this one to review and a new reference point.

[hendrickkone]

Wow wow wow, you are such and grreat teacher and the example you work thorough can be twiked and be applied to many business cases.Thank you!

[AlexFloresG]

Excellent teacher and great example apply to reality. Thanks Lisa.

[SebastianHornbaek]

I sure got a LOT of help getting started with the previous guide you did! So nice that you keep up your awesome work Lisa 💪😎👏

[HilaryGo]

Fantastic - Lisa is so clear, articulate and logical. Amazing videos and quite superb courses - I cannot recommend her more highly!

[clairbland]

Great easy to follow instructions and explained clearly.

[allanxlwanga]

The teaching style is epic!! Thanks for the lecture.

[BlaineAllmond-broq]

This was great. Now, I had to watch it three times- but thats on me. Thanks for the effort.

[cjcalo]

This is a great tutorial, thank you so much. And thank you for letting the process 'play out' so I know that there's nothing broken with my own setup, lol.

[RuudJeursen]

Thanks Lisa, I started a few weeks ago in the earlier version and enjoyed your excellent "class" and explanations. Gonna get started tomorrow in this one. Keep up the good work! 😊

[PradeepKumar-qshe]

This is insanely amazing. Cant wait to become a pro at this. Thank you so much for the detailed walk through.

[kevinmccann]

Thanks very much for your great Power Platform videos Lisa.

[lucasubieta]

What a marvelous masterclass!. Thanks a lot!.

[socb]

Thank you so much for making it clear. You have earned another subscriber.

[carmscaffidi]

Thank you @LisaCrosbie I am subscribed to your channel. Great content and very helpful with getting familiar with all things Microsoft Dynamics.

[chrisakol]

This video is amazing! Thank you Lisa! :)