About this class

Audience: Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Power Users, no-code business solution builders, approval process creators, Power Apps power users.

Course Overview

Are you a SharePoint Power User or form and workflow creator?  After you have taken our Power Apps and Power Automate courses, this course is the perfect extension of what you have learned.  Put your knowledge to work, in this real-world app with its own approval process built right in.  End users who fill out a request form will be presented with a simple interface, and approvers will also be taken to the same simple form screen, where they can approve or reject the form in one central interface.  No need for confusing tasks in different lists and other locations across flow and Teams. Everything that the end users and approvers interact with in this approval process is done in the Power App.


Build the Lists and Power App

This full business solution lab takes you through the process of building the necessary SharePoint lists, and the standalone canvas app. 


Approval Logic and Testing

As you work through our lab and video instructions, learn how to build the formulas and logic that are used to make this process run.  This solution is tested throughout the process, and a full run-through is done at the end.

Course details

    1. Welcome to our Power Apps Approval Panel course!

    2. Approval Process Intro

    3. Why use this method?

    1. Lists and Power App Structure

    2. Exercise 1-2: Create the lists

    1. Exercise 3 - Build the app structure

    2. Exercise 4: Build the main form

    3. Exercise 5: Add the approval panel

    4. Exercise 5 continued: Approve button

    5. Exercise 5 continued: Reject button

    6. Exercise 6: Add the approval form

    7. Exercise 7: Next stage and approver pickers

    1. Exercise 8: Build the main list (gallery)

    2. Exercise 9: Button logic

    3. Exercise 10: Main form logic

    4. Exercise 11: Query string parameter

    1. Exercise 12: Create a new flow

    2. Exercise 13: Construct the item URL

    3. Exercise 14: Test the flow

    1. Exercise 15 & 16: Add an Outlook connector, approval form OnSuccess

    2. Exercise 17: Test the full solution

About this course

  • 28 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

What you get

This is a list of everything that you get when you enroll in our Ultimate plan.

  • Video training content

  • Class lab files to work through

  • A recording of the class available to you any time

  • A quiz to test your knowledge at the end of the course

  • A downloadable completion certificate

  • Earn coins to spend in our point store

This course is part of our Ultimate plan

The plan includes ALL of our training. SharePoint, Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate

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Reviews of the course

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Power Apps Approval Panel Review

Joan Connelly

This course is extremely thorough, and Laura takes you through each step of the process. Having the labs is a great way to fully understand the process too. ...

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This course is extremely thorough, and Laura takes you through each step of the process. Having the labs is a great way to fully understand the process too. Great course!

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Very Helpful

Joseph LeMay

I just wrote my own version of this app with approvals and rejections 100% in PowerApps with a SharePoint list on the backend, no flows involved. I bombarded...

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I just wrote my own version of this app with approvals and rejections 100% in PowerApps with a SharePoint list on the backend, no flows involved. I bombarded it with code and, though it works, it's a messy app. It would have been helpful to have seen this first and I'll be using this in the future for similar apps.

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Streamline Training

Rich Prybys

Great lab example to tailor to a specific need for my department

Great lab example to tailor to a specific need for my department

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Simple but effective

Judith Minnerly

Thanks for sharing this simple yet effective app - Love that it can be used for a variety of approval processes/forms.

Thanks for sharing this simple yet effective app - Love that it can be used for a variety of approval processes/forms.

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Your Instructor

Microsoft MVP Laura Rogers

Laura Rogers is a SharePoint, Teams, Power Apps & Power Automate expert, speaker, author and educator. She is well-versed in helping organizations make the most of their SharePoint business processes using Power Apps and Power Automate flows. Laura’s technical expertise also includes over 18 years of experience working with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. She has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the past twelve years. She has contributed to several books on SharePoint over the past eleven years. You can read more about Laura’s experiences on her blog, www.wonderlaura.com, and follow her on twitter: @WonderLaura

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