How to Add Welcome Content in Power Apps

In this post, I will show you how to configure your own personal branded content to appear when users access Power Apps. We will build this:

Prerequisites

In order to add welcome content, you must be in a managed environment. If your environment is not managed, you can read this article to learn how to make it managed.

The actual content can be done in one of two ways: using Markdown (resource: here) or PowerShell (resource: here). In this example, I’m diving into Markdown, which is new to me but easy to use.

Markdown Hack: Use ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an amazing tool and this is a great way to use it! Here’s my prompt I entered:

“I need to use Markdown language. Please format the following in Markdown: Welcome to CRM Heidi’s Power Apps! We are excited to have you here to learn all about these amazing apps. Before you get started, let’s make sure you are equipped with the best resources: 1. If you need video tutorials on how to use Dynamics 365 CRM, Power Apps and Power Automate, go here: www.youtube.com/crmheidi. 2. For articles and up to date information, go to www.crmheidi.com. 3. To follow Heidi on LinkedIn, go here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidineuhauser/“

Add an image.

And this is what I got back, with my text formatted in Markdown:

I want to add an image to this Welcome page, so I have to add a webresource to my Power Apps environment that I can use.

Updating my placeholder query with the URL from my webresource updates the code to be this:

# Welcome to CRM Heidi’s Power Apps!


We are excited to have you here to learn all about these amazing apps. Before you get started, let’s make sure you are equipped with the best resources:

1. If you need video tutorials on how to use Dynamics 365 CRM, Power Apps, and Power Automate, go here: [www.youtube.com/crmheidi](http://www.youtube.com/crmheidi).

2. For articles and up-to-date information, go to [www.crmheidi.com](http://www.crmheidi.com).

3. To follow Heidi on LinkedIn, go here: [Heidi’s LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidineuhauser/).

Note: When I previewed this code in later steps, I didn’t like the header above the image, so I simply reordered it in the final steps. Having this all set up before adding the welcome content made this very easy!

Adding Welcome Content

Now that we have our Markdown code to insert, we will walk through the steps to set up your welcome content!

1. Go to the Power Platform Admin Center.
2. Navigate to Environments.
3. Highlight the row of the appropriate environment (Remember, it must be a managed environment!)
4. Click the ellipses at the top ribbon to see more options.
5. Select Edit Managed Environment.

This opens a new tap on the right-hand side. Scroll down until you see the heading Maker welcome content.

Then, simply copy and paste the Markdown code generated earlier in this section. You can also specify a custom Learn more URL.

Then use the Preview in new tab option to see what your new welcome content will look like.

Finally, click Save at the bottom of the Edit Managed Environments panel. After you click Save here, any user who accesses Power Apps will see your new welcome screen!

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