Publish your app

  • 5 minutes

Now that you have built an app, you'll want to share it with your team. You can accomplish this task by publishing the app to Teams. After the app has been published, it will be accessible for your team to start taking advantage of it.

  1. Open your app for editing in Power Apps Studio.

  2. Select the Publish to Teams button from the right of the command ribbon. A Publish dialog popup appears over the app canvas. Select Next to continue.

    Screenshot of the Publish dialog popup with the Publish to Teams button and the Next button highlighted.

  3. For each channel where you want the app to appear in a tab, select the Add app as a tab (+) button. You can only publish to channels for the team that you created the app in. Once you add the app to a channel, the app name appears immediately below the Channel name.

    Screenshot that shows the addition of a channel.

  4. Select Save and close. Then select the Back arrow in your Power Apps editor, and navigate to your Teams channel.

Your app will now appear on a tab in the channel that you selected. You can open the app by selecting the tab.

Screenshot of the April test app.

By default, your Dataverse for Teams app is only available to the team that you created the app in. Occasionally, you'll want to share your application with others in your organization.

To share your app with others outside of the current team:

  1. Verify that you're a team owner where the app is currently published.

  2. Open the Build tab in the Power Apps for Teams app and then select the Share with colleagues button from the top right.

    Screenshot of the Power Apps Build tab and the See all link highlighted.

  3. In the dialog popup for share with colleagues, enter the Microsoft 365 group or Microsoft Entra ID security group to share with in the Enter or select a security group field.

    Screenshot of Share with colleagues dialog box with the entry field highlighted.

  4. Find the name of your app on the list and toggle the Colleague can use for your app. Then select Save.

    Screenshot of apps in box with toggle selected to on for the app we want to share.

  5. After a few moments, the dialog box will close and a success message appears letting you know that the selected team can install and use the apps selected.

    Screenshot of solution screen showing success message.

Afterward, the app appears in the Built by your colleagues page when users select Apps in Teams. To learn more about publishing your apps, see the links in the Summary unit at the end of this module.