[quote user="Power Platform Communities"]I have a new project assigned to me wherein I have to explore building a Custom PowerApps application pointing to Dynamics as the underlying Data source.[/quote]
D365 CE is collection of some prebuild applications (like Finance, Sales). You can get these and customize if you need their functionality.
In D365 data tables are called entities. I think you want to create entities but you might not need to have D365 Apps. I think to start you can try to find what sort of app you are going to build. In Power Apps there are two types of apps:
1. Model Driven Apps (example D365 CE apps such as sales, services etc. You can extend these or create a model driven app which looks similar to D365 CE apps )
2. Canvas Apps (usually to perform a task, small apps, for example mark attendance is a process and you are going to build app for it)
[quote user="Power Platform Communities"]The app I am building is very customized and cannot be bracketed as a Finance or a Sales app.[/quote]
Did my above explanation helped ? You can create a model driven app if you dont need D365 apps (Finance, Sales etc) using same development infrastructure.
[quote user="Power Platform Communities"]
It is just a regular business app with one-one, one-many and many-many with connections to external excel data sources needed.
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with model driven apps we store data in entities (data table in CDS) but using Power Automate we can connect to external data soruces. With Canvas apps we can store primary data in entities, excel, share point and for connecting to different external sorurce same Power Automate.
[quote user="Power Platform Communities"]Can you please let me know where to begin and what module to connect to, within Dynamics, as it is confusing when I read 'Finance' and 'Sales' modules etc.[/quote]
Explore what is CDS, Model Driven App, Canvas App and Power Automate.
here is a link:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/powerplatform/
Let us know if you have further questions.
