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How to start learning to develop an App similar to MS Inspection?

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I'm a Quality Manager who would like to know the path to learning the skills to build an App similar to MS Inspection - but with more complexity for the inspe

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TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

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I'm not familiar with MS Inspection, could.you share some gui shots of what youd like to replicate for those of us who live onky in the power platform bubble.

Dont even have ro limit yourself to one, skys the limit. Find crisp modern guis you like and share. We can definitrly help you come up with solutions

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JamesT2000 4 on at

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I appreciate your willingness to help. MS Inspections is a Teams Sample App that was developed for "inspections" but the inspections are simple compared to what would be required in a real manufacturing environment. Some links to screenshots and a YouTube video demo are below.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/inspection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJzC7LaPphU

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TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

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Oh ok, so just one of the templates, thought there was another program you were referencing. Do you guys plan on using it in Teams? Or through the standalone PowerApps application. If through teams I would recommend just starting with the MS Inspeciton template and adding onto it as you come across additions you need in the tool, but when new to the process a template is a great place to start as tyou can read its formulas and get a great idea of how powerapps works. If using the Standalone app there is a template for inspections there as well, it's a little older so not quite as clean and modern style wise as the ms inspections template, but luckily you would only need to edit the shapes and colors of it to get back to the others stylistic look

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You can then start building SharePoint lists or a similar data source (try to stay away from Excel) to be the data used in the app IE) a tasks list with a column for area, and a column for task, maybe even an importance column etc. can make each list as specific or as broad as you would like.

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Or, if you prefer to have this data saved only in the app and each task will be done daily so theres no need to store last completion date etc for historical checks it can all be stored in collections in app IE)

App OnStart

Collect(CheckList, {Task:"Clean Car", Area:"Home",Complete:false}, {Task:"Refuel Car", Area:"Home",Complete:false}, {Task:"Clean Garage", Area:"Home",Complete:false})

and every tiem a task is completed update complete to true and save it in the device memory, reload this when reopening app so progress is kept (just thought youd also need a date column in that example, so if you opened app on a new date it would delete progress)

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JamesT2000 4 on at

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Once again - thanks for your willingness to share ideas.

The main problem I have with the MS Inspections app is that it doesn't seem to be able to collect data on measurements for inspections. They are binary, good-bad inspections in all the examples.

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TheRobRush 11,128 Moderator on at

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Just set the sp column you use for that up as a number column then, and change the input control for those values in your app to a text input control, or slider, etc. Whatever you like best

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