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Create a Canvas app using the Dataverse

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Create a Canvas app using the Dataverse

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- [Instructor] If you want to create a model-driven app, you have to base it on the Dataverse, but you can use the Dataverse as your data source to create a three-screen Canvas app just like we created apps based on Microsoft Excel. The limitation here is that we can use only one table in the Dataverse to be able to create a Canvas app. To do that, you simply start with the Dataverse. You choose Microsoft Dataverse as your connection and then the list of Dataverse tables will be populated. And the table that I want to use is a table called Workers. So I can search for it and find it because there's a lot there to scroll past and then click Connect. And just as Power Apps created a three-screen application based on the Excel spreadsheet that we had stored in OneDrive for Business, it's going to create a three-screen application based on this single table. This is not a model-driven app. This will be a Canvas app like the…

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