YAML Essentials for the Power Platform

You may have heard about something called YAML and wondered what it is. In this beginner's guide to YAML for Power Platform, I'll give you an overview of what YAML is and explain the key concepts of YAML like data types and key-value pairs. I'll also walk you through why you need to know about YAML as a Power Platform developer and how and where you can use it within the Power Platform including in Copilot Studio and Power Apps. By the end of the video, you'll have a solid grasp of YAML and be ready to start using it in Power Apps and Copilot Studio.
Download the YAML file: aka.ms/april/yaml-basics
Learn about YAML in Power Apps: aka.ms/yaml-powerapps
See the full YAML documentation: aka.ms/yaml-docs
Try out our snippets repo: github.com/pnp/powerplatform-...
Table of Contents:
00:00 - What is YAML?
01:40 - YAML basics
06:52 - Working with YAML in Copilot Studio
09:32 - Using YAML in Power Apps
12:00 - What are the benefits?

[@lowcodedev]

Loved this content!

[@PaulieM]

Thanks April - very informative video!

[@AprilDunnam]

Thank you Paul!

[@johandeweerdt]

Hi @april, could you share the GitHub Repo link again? Thanks! Love the video

[@dougydoe]

This was super super useful, April! Finally the tonic to get me to dig into YAML. Will definitely dig into the resource links you've shared and start playing with it. I think it's extremely useful to see what's happening behind the scenes, copy in VScode and then paste back etc. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍🙏

[@AprilDunnam]

Thanks for watching Douglas! Looking forward to hearing what you think of it!

[@AdamHaas]

Wow, this is going to change everything for me. Thank you for the clear presentation!

[@AprilDunnam]

Wonderful! I'm happy to help!

[@gregphillips9990]

Great job as always April. Loved the content!

[@AprilDunnam]

Thanks so much!

[@skjones91199]

Nice video! Welcome back!

[@AprilDunnam]

I'm glad to be back! I had a busy few weeks with back to back conferences. It was fun but I'm happy to be back and making videos again 🙂

[@benoau]

Ths is terrific. Whjo knew YAML was so good!

[@AprilDunnam]

It can do a lot! Thanks for watching ☺

[@pawanmishra6549]

Learnt multiple new topics from the video - Thanks!

[@AprilDunnam]

Glad to hear! Thanks for watching ☺

[@damienbird6632]

Wonder if / when we will see similar in Power Automate Cloud Flows? The classic designer always allowed us to copy the code and paste back in, like you demo'd in both Apps and Copilot Studio with YAML, but the new designer would benefit from this too. Very useful video April - thanks for sharing.

[@kaushar.]

Thanks April. It was much needed.

[@AprilDunnam]

Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful!

[@patrick2131]

Well done, April. Appreciate it!

[@AprilDunnam]

Thank you for watching!

[@ReturnToHopeCove]

Excellent intro to the topic

[@AprilDunnam]

Thank you!!

[@DanielMedic]

Good Job April ❤

[@AprilDunnam]

Thank you!

[@akshaynm]

Nice Video April.. Thanks 👍

[@AprilDunnam]

Thanks for watching!

[@theeconomicmachine2369]

The next logic development step is to add the web based VS code editor access to the YAML code preview section in Powerapps Canvas apps so you could quickly edit it, much like Power Pages!!!

[@jordansolla5405]

Thanks it was interesting

[@AprilDunnam]

Thanks for watching!

[@bapi9398]

Very interesting video April, but i'm questionning wether Microsoft is moving smoothly this Power Apps tooling from a no-code/low-code to an actual dev tool.
I'm training people on the Power Platform, and more and more utilities like that (I love them of course) become more and more scary to the "citizen developers". What do you think ?

[@corywarshaw4100]

I was triggered by the misquote. Should be: "Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica"!

[@AprilDunnam]

I noticed that when I was editing it. It wasn't me though! It was Github Copilot suggesting the incorrect quote lol. It triggered me too 😂

[@ResponsibleXI]

More code into LowCode-NoCode.🤣
Great learning nevertheless. Thanks April.