Exercise - Create a card to capture employee suggestions
In this exercise, you use the card designer studio to create a card that captures employee suggestions.
Scenario
You're responsible for an upcoming event and are required to gather employee suggestions for a keynote speaker. You want to minimize the risk of repeated names, so all employees must be able to view the complete list of suggestions.
Exercise steps (video)
The following video demonstrates the steps for this exercise. The following sections provide detailed instructions.
Exercise
To create a card, sign in to Power Apps Studio and then select an environment where you have Create permissions, such as a developer environment.
To access the card designer studio, follow these steps:
Select Cards in the left navigation pane.
Select the Create a card tile.
Provide a card name and card description.
Select Create.
To capture the keynote speaker suggestions from employees, create a collection variable by following these steps:
Select Variables in the main navigation pane.
Select + New variable in the tool pane.
Provide a name, such as KeynoteSpeaker.
Select Collection for the variable type.
Provide a name, such as SpeakerName and then select Text as the type for the first column of the Collection structure.
Select Permanent for the Persistence variable.
Select Save to create the variable.
To display the list of suggestions, create a new screen by following these steps:
Select Tree View in the main navigation pane.
Select + New screen in the tool pane.
Provide a name, such as List of Suggestions.
Select Create to complete the process.
After you create the screen, follow these steps:
Confirm that you've selected Tree View from the main navigation pane.
Select textlabel1 from the newly created screen in the tool pane.
In the Properties pane, modify the text value with a property, such as List of Suggestions.
Select textLabel2 from the newly created screen in the tool pane.
In the Properties pane, provide the collection variable name (KeynoteSpeaker in this exercise) for the Repeat for every property.
In the Power Fx formula bar, define the Text property with the ThisItem.SpeakerName Power Fx formula.
To return to the main screen from the list of suggestions, follow these steps:
Select + Insert in the main navigation pane.
Select Button in the Input section of the tool pane.
In the Properties pane, provide a title for the button, such as Back.
Select Run PowerFx for the Type property.
In the Power Fx formula bar, define the Verb property with the Power Fx formula Back().
To capture the keynote speaker suggestions in the main screen, follow these steps:
Select Tree View in the main navigation pane.
Modify the text label descriptions of the main screen with meaningful information for the card users.
Select + Insert in the main navigation pane.
To provide a field where the card users enter their suggestions, select Text input in the Input section of the tool pane.
To allow users to confirm their submission, select Button in the tool pane.
In the Properties pane, provide a title for the button, such as Submit Suggestion. Select Run PowerFx for the Type property.
To add the suggestion to the collection variable, define the Verb property in the Power Fx formula bar as:
Collect(KeynoteSpeaker,{SpeakerName:textInput1});.To provide the user with the option of viewing the list of suggestions, select Button in the tool pane.
In the Properties pane, provide a title for the button, such as View List of Suggestions. Select Run PowerFx for the Type property.
To navigate to the screen that you created in the previous steps of this exercise, define the Verb property in the Power Fx formula as: Navigate('List of Suggestions').
You've now created a card to capture and view keynote speaker suggestions. To test the card, select Save and then Play.
Optional exercise
Instead of using a variable to store the suggestions, you could use a Dataverse record to store them. The following video demonstrates the steps for creating a card for this scenario:
Provide a Dataverse table to capture the suggestions by offsite events.
Modify the card to be related to a specific offsite event.
Modify the card to update the suggestions column for the event record.
Next steps
You've now learned how to create a Power Apps card that captures employee suggestions. Next, you'll learn how to send Power Apps cards to users.