Introduction
Canvas Apps
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Strengths:
- Fully Customizable UI: Canvas Apps allow for the complete control of the UI elements of the application. You don’t have to fit your design into the traditional Dynamics 365 approach of a standard UI with base functionality built around your entities. Canvas Apps allow for customized screen navigation and layout to meet the users’ needs down to the pixel.
- Can Tie Multiple Data Sources into one Experience: If you have data that is located in disparate systems then the Canvas App can be utilized to unite and focus this data to the tailored experience for a user.
- Focused Experience: Having an app that is dedicated to a certain task allows for greater flexibility in delivering the data to the user in the best possible way and their interaction with that data. Otherwise users can quickly be overwhelmed by a multitude of navigation screens and buttons just to get to one feature that they need within an app. Canvas apps deliver what a user needs directly from starting up the application.
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Strengths:
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Focus is on the business case and not custom UI elements:
Driven by overall data model and broadly defined business processes (i.e. Sales Hub App, Customer Service Hub App).
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Granular Security Model:
Managers can have different abilities when interacting with data elements compared to a typical user. The following is an example: the boss can update/create/delete a record but the user can only view the record in a model driven app.
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Data Relationships:
The bread-and-butter of the Dynamics 365 platform shines with the Model Driven App. How data is associated is center stage in the model driven app.
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Data Heavy Experience:
Dashboards, Charts, and Data are center stage on Model Driven Apps. This allows for simpler data visualization for users.
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Deep Office Integration:
Out-of-the-box ability to export data to excel is one example of the ease of interaction between the application and the office suite of products offered up by Model Driven applications.
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Request a DemoConclusion
Canvas Apps and Model Driven Apps allow the user to have the best experience depending on every unique business situation. The PowerApps platform is taking center stage in the transformation of businesses by taking their work on the road. This article was meant to give a quick introduction to these two types of Power Apps. If you are interested in learning more about Power Apps in general please visit the Microsoft Documentation and the AlphaBOLD blog for more informative articles on the subject. Go forth with PowerApps! If you have any question or queries, do not hesitate to reach out to us!