Building an app which surfaces information based on selections

[joannephinn]

Hi, I'm new to power apps & looking to find out if it is capable of my requirement. I have multiple products & these products have a different set of eligibility questions along with some overlapping questions. I'm looking to build something where the user selects the products required & then only surface the relevant requirements rather than showing any of the duplicate ones. I have a about 12 different products & the customer can mix and match any of these. 

Is it possible to build a power app that allows the user to select the products they are looking to purchase & surface the requirements & remove duplication of requirements? 

Thanks

[poweractivate]

@joannephinn 

The answer is yes.

How to do it depends on your scenario.

For now, to keep the answer short, I have a starter scenario for you in mind that I feel may closely match your requirements. There is free material out there for Power Apps training and out of it, one specific one comes to mind.

1. Go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/learning-catalog/app-maker - this should be a publicly accessible page on Microsoft Docs.

2. Scroll all the way down to the one called "AIAD App in a day" - "Full instructor and attendee package to learn Power Apps." This is a free download available on Microsoft's own documentation page. If you click it, a zip file download might start - at least it did when I tried it just now. I was even able to download it on an Incognito Tab without being signed in to any accounts as well - it appears to be publicly available material at least at the moment I tried it just now.

3. Extract the zip file to Desktop. Especially pay attention to the labs in there about Canvas App and Device Ordering App, I think this is the very first module. I think those allow "mixing and matching" as you describe and might match closely to your scenario. If you want you can follow the full instructions of the PDF and lab materials in there and see if practicing building that app might inform you about how to build your app for your scenario. You may even be able to import the already completed solution from the lab materials if you prefer to look at how it should look finished first. That particular lab is about building a Device Ordering App where you can select from multiple devices, and can use multiple criteria for filtering. You can build out the whole thing yourself following the specific steps. I feel like this may happen to be at least a starting point for your scenario and I recommend you give it a try.

4. For your specific scenario I recommend just that one module about the Device Ordering App, the rest you can do if you want but I feel like just that one module on Device Ordering App is most closely related to your question.

Check if it helps @joannephinn 

[joannephinn]

Brilliant, thanks so much for your help! I'll download the training you have suggested & get started 🙂