Let’s get started with an introduction to Microsoft Lists. In this module you will learn more about the origins of the Microsoft Lists product and where it fits in Office 365. You will discover the business benefits of this tool and how it can be integrated into other Office 365 services. Lists is an incredibly versatile tool and can form the backbone of many customised business services when combined with the power platform and other apps.

To begin our journey through the Microsoft Lists product, we will begin by looking at some of the templates that are available to view and edit. Microsoft’s templates are a good starting point for discovering what the product is capable off and how that can be achieved. We will also take the chance to have a tour of alist and where we can customise the list so that students are familiar with the interface that they will be using over the one-day course. We will also build our first list from an Excel file, showing students how to upgrade their existing data sources into a new list. We will also discuss how to configure your list settings and how to introduce new types of columns and views.

In our next module we will be looking at more advanced logic within Microsoft Lists. This will include a range of advanced columns that are derived by SharePoint that will greatly benefit your end users experience when using your list. This is a low-code/no-code module so only simple formulas will be leveraged to bring calculations to your columns. We will also explore formatting which helps you control the look and feel of your list based on the data within it. We will earn about how to use design mode to implement these changes and how more advanced users can leverage advanced mode to apply JSON code to a column or view.

The gateway to adding data to your list is its form. If you would like to customise this form there are a couple of ways to do this. You may choose to simply reorder or remove fields and this can be done directly from the form. For more advanced scenarios like branding a form or adding additional logic, you will need to use Power Apps. Power Apps works hand in hand with lists, offering a range of ways to improve your end user form experience. In this module we will show you how to make quick changed to your form directly in Microsoft Lists and how to enhance a form even further with Power Apps. We will also discuss how Power Apps can turn your list into a new mobile app.

In our last module we will explore using our lists to trigger common business processes. These could range from a simple notification to pop up in a Microsoft Teams chat to an approval request sent to a users mailbox. The benefit of our lists is that it contains a wealth of information that can be leveraged in an automated business process. Using Microsoft Power Automate, directly from your list, we can begin to explore how we can use helpful templates to quickly implement common business processes based around events in our list, for example submitting a new record.