Getting Starting with #ProjectOnline and #PowerApps #PVC18 presentation links #PPM #PMOT #Apps #Office365 #MSProject

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at the awesome Project Virtual Conference 2018. During my session I referenced existing blog posts and code samples that I had previously published on my blog. As promised in the presentation, here is a blog post containing all of the relevant links to help get you started using PowerApps for Project Online. A link to my session is here: http://projectvirtualconference.com/sessions/getting-started-with-project-online-and-powerapps/

Firstly here is a link to the official PowerApps site: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/build-powerapps/

The first example app we looked at was a navigation PowerApp for Project Online, this made use of the SharePoint Online connector in PowerApps. As discussed, you would need a process to get the required Project Online data into the target SharePoint list for this approach. Here a link to an example solution starter PowerShell script that will do just that: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/projectonline-powershell-to-keep-ppm-data-in-sync-on-sharepoint-list-pmot-o365/

Once the data is available, here are the two links that walkthrough creating this example navigation app:

Part 1: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/projectonline-powerapps-example-office365-ppm-pmot-apps-msproject-part1/

Part 2: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2018/02/24/projectonline-powerapps-example-office365-ppm-pmot-apps-msproject-sharepoint-part2/

The next example PowerApp we looked at in the presentation made use of the Project Online connector in PowerApps to give examples of using some of the actions available in the connector. This works directly with Project Online so does not require any background process to get data into SharePoint. As mentioned in the presentation, the properties available are fairly limited, hence for the navigation app I had to get the data from Project Online into SharePoint list first as I needed the Project Site URL which is not in the Project data set in the Project Online connector for PowerApps. This example app did make use of the Project Online connector in PowerApps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/projectonline/

Here are the three links that walkthrough creating this example app:

Part 1: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2018/03/14/projectonline-powerapps-using-the-project-online-connector-ppm-apps-msproject-o365-part1/

Part 2: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/projectonline-powerapps-using-the-project-online-connector-ppm-apps-msproject-o365-part2/

Part 3: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/projectonline-powerapps-using-the-project-online-connector-ppm-apps-msproject-o365-part3/

As mentioned in the presentation, you can create a PowerApp that make use of both the SharePoint connector and Project Online or any number of connectors available for PowerApps – there are lots!

PowerApps are a great way to build business applications without having to write any code!

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