Create an Onboarding App with PowerApps & SQL Server

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• 📱
  00:00

  Building an onboarding app using PowerApps and Microsoft SQL Server, with features like user registration, document management, dynamic questionnaires, and management-level dashboard.
• 📝
  20:35

  Collecting data is important for building features and programs, as it may become valuable in the future, and the speaker plans to work on more beginner-level projects in the future, sharing a link for a sample onboarding project, while discussing the schedule for their live sessions and the process of creating tables with default values and additional columns for a user table and a new table for documents.
• 📺
  30:04

  To create a many-to-many relationship in a relational database, use a mapping table, and for an onboarding app, use separate tables for different user types to store specific information.
• 📝
  44:40

  Create a standardized onboarding app with fields for document details, reuse code and variables, implement a quality management system, and focus on a minimal viable product.
• 📝
  1:01:51

  Different forms and checklists can be created for different roles within an organization's onboarding process, and reusing a questionnaire engine can help create an onboarding app that ensures all necessary tasks are completed with new hires.
• 📝
  1:15:11

  Build an onboarding app with denormalized data, separate tables for question types and languages, and consider language requirements and performance optimization.
• 💡
  1:35:12

  Consider efficient storage methods for boolean values, be mindful of data type mismatches, and think big with multi-language support when designing applications.
• 📝
  1:47:33

  The speaker discusses the importance of attention to detail in software development and explains how to create a comprehensive onboarding app using Power Apps by linking different tables in a database and establishing relationships between users, questionnaires, and occurrences.