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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By: Srikumar Nair

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams is a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows, and intelligent chatbots using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents (PVA) embedded in Microsoft Teams. Without learning any coding language, you will be able to build apps with step-by-step explanations for setting up Teams, creating tables to store data, and leverage the data for your digital solutions. With the techniques covered in the book, you’ll be able to develop your first app with Dataverse for Teams within an hour! You’ll then learn how to automate repetitive tasks or build alerts using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. As you get to grips with building these digital solutions, you’ll also be able to understand when to consider upgrading from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse, along with its advanced features. Finally, you’ll explore features for administration and governance and understand the licensing requirements of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and PowerApps. Having acquired the skills to build and deploy an enterprise-grade digital solution, by the end of the book, you will have become a qualified citizen developer and be ready to lead a digital revolution in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
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Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Data Modeling for Applications

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, for the first application, we will build a Health Scanner application. This app will be a general-purpose application that can be used by any organization to scan the health of their employees, customers, or any other visitors. In the case of this chapter, this application will be built as a simple application that will capture the basic health diagnostic data before and after a working shift.

To do this, let's start thinking of the basic set of information that our Health Scanner application needs to capture and store. This information set includes the following data:

  • Employee ID
  • First Name and Last Name
  • Phone Number
  • Email
  • Scan Date
  • Body Temperature
  • Questions, such as "Have you experienced a cough or shortness of breath – Yes/No?"
  • A self-declaration, such as "I acknowledge that the information I've given is accurate and complete –...