Canvas apps with Microsoft Teams

Canvas apps can provide specific functionality to users to perform their roles. Adding a canvas app to a channel is an effective way to deploy canvas apps to users.

To embed a canvas app, you start from a channel in the Microsoft Team app and click on Add a tab. The following page will be shown:

Figure 19.11 – Add a tab to a Microsoft Teams channel

You should select the Power Apps app and you will see the following page. You can search for the app you want to add to the channel, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 19.12 – Select a canvas app

After clicking on Save, a new tab is added to the channel showing the canvas app, as shown in this screenshot:

Figure 19.13 – Canvas app embedded as a tab

Only apps that you own or that have been shared with you can be added with the preceding method. 

Apps deployed to Teams are also available in the Microsoft Teams mobile app. Users do not need to...