Moving SharePoint Based Power Apps to Dataverse for Teams

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Considering moving your SharePoint based Power Apps to Dataverse for Teams? Learn the key differences and decision factors between SharePoint, Dataverse for Teams and Dataverse when choosing a data source for your Power Apps and Power Platform solutions. You'll see a demo of how you can import a SharePoint Lists structure and data into Dataverse for Teams with Data Flows and how we can export and import a Power Apps canvas app into Dataverse for Teams with solutions.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Intro
00:46 - SharePoint vs Dataverse for Teams vs Dataverse
09:49 - Importing the SharePoint List Data
14:27 - Importing a Standalone Power App
17:52 - Adding the app to Teams

[richardfrith]

Wow! I'm seriously impressed with all this new import functionality we now have, thanks for the video!

[SKEDURINRAJA]

Google exactly landed the search to the correct video… thanks April

[emmanuelmaceda]

I had to revisit this vid because Matt Devaney twitted why one should use Dataverse forTeams instead of a SharePoint list 😊

[patrickstapper]

Great overview and love the way Microsoft is going. Thanks April for your guidence!

[g]

Hi April - Great video. Many thanks for sharing.

[stamatismalissovas]

Great video and Great news.. Got so excited when i first saw the video and just had to start right away only to find out that the feature is NOT available in our region yet (Europe, Greece).. Thanks Microsoft

[korebreach]

One of the odd quirks about DV4T is that everything, by default, ends up in the "Common Data Services Default Solution". However, from the "See all" link, there is an option at the top to "Open in Power Apps". That provides you with a new screen that gives you the ability to create new solutions. The devil is in the details, though. If you put your stuff in a different solution (other than Common...), you won't see it back in the "see all" list anymore. That list only shows things in the CDS Default Solution. So... to be able to edit your apps, they also have to reside in the CDS Default Solution. Weird, but seems to be no way around this.

[carlw]

Very useful info as usual. BUT, I'm having a problem understanding something that no one seems to be addressing.
The technique of importing the SharePoint list data into Dataverse for Teams is easy enough, BUT(!!) the newly created in Dataverse doesn't look anything like the SharePoint list fields in your table. ALL fields in the new Dataverse table are "Text" fields. One can have images, choices, date fields etc. Those aren't text fields.?? How is that new Dataverse table even usable for inputting data via the Powerapps app??

[ollyklassen]

Great content but sadly i do not have the "Dataflows (Previev)" tab on my apps list seen on 11:05. Am i missing something? My tenant is located in Switzerland.

[derek_shannon]

Thanks, April, very happy I was actually able to try this thanks to your guidance! My question is about relationships between existing datasets as you import the tables via Dataflows, so that you can fully leverage D4T in the transferred app. I have a 1-many relationship with a text string key, but I'm not sure how to map the text field key in the "many" table as a lookup to the "1" table. I have gotten the RELATE function to work (post import) for individual rows, but haven't gotten that to work with a FORALL and so am trying to come up with the right approach for a few thousand rows, do you know what that might be? I could be a bit spoiled by data modeling in Excel PowerPivot where you can just draw a line in diagram view ;-D

[opowerplatform]

6:37 2g limit per Team site? or per Table? For Dataverse Full version, is it suggested that every project or developer get their own Environment? does that environment require separate licensing? same access AD groups? There is a role to enable a user to manager all role permissions (even at table level) ?
Also, why does DV4T require me to first create an App before I can create Tables? That seems like a bug.

[kannank]

Cool that's an awesome demo. Do you have any video that shows difference between canvas vs Model apps and when to use them?

[michelelomonaco]

Hello April congratulations for the video. I created a small test app with a table and published it to a team that I owner. What do my colleagues have to do to access and what kind of license do I need? Because we all have the same corporate accounts, but they are required to open a license of power apps trial or premium. Thank you. Michele.

[rayromych]

For some reason I am missing Dataflows link - Is there something else I need to do?

[bhainsley]

Hi, April - thanks a million for this; greatly appreciate your patient step by step explanation. I notice that when I'm importing my Sharepoint List, all the data types come over as text, and I don't seem to get the option to change the data type for any of the imported columns. For example, in the original Sharepoint list, a column that is number comes over as text, and in Dataverse for Teams I'm not seeing an option to change that back to number. Is there something I'm missing?

[gerryv]

For anyone getting Authentication loading continuous spinning in Dataverse for Teams, you need to click the Open in Power Apps button at the top when you see it.

[powerappstw]

It's awsome :D, thanks for great video

Great video April.

I have one concern when moving this to Dataverse for Teams. If we have a Power BI report or a Power Automate routine we will have to update everything. This seems to be handy for small apps that don't have integration with other Power Platform tools.

[tdharpjr]

Your instructions have never failed me before. I am on a GCC tenant, with what looks to be a standard license. I am receiving errors when trying to create the Solution portion. Does creating a Solution require a Premium License?

[athompson]

How did you do the time visualizations with the circles behind the time ? Power BI ?