Introducing model-driven apps

Users require apps to manage their data through their business processes. Model-driven apps allow users to create and update their data while observing defined business process steps and rules. 

Model-driven apps are one of the types of Power App that you can create. They are based on the entities in the Common Data Service. 

Model-driven apps require an environment with a Common Data Service database.

This section provides an overview of model-driven apps, their components, and how you create a model-driven app.

The term model in model-driven apps is explained by the apps being based on top of the data model in the Common Data Service. You can think of model-driven apps as forms over data, with the app showing the records in each entity and users being able to edit a record for the entity.

At the time of publishing, Microsoft Dataverse (formerly known as the Common Data Service) was undergoing a branding change. You will see the use of...