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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
10
Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
13
Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Creating a Dataverse table

In this section, we will be creating a new table that will help you to store the application data that the users of your app will be entering or viewing. Let's look at how a new table is created:

  1. As seen in the following screenshot, once the new app name is provided, the screen will have options shown for Create new table:

    Figure 3.13 – The Create new table option

  2. Once you click the Create new table button, you will be prompted to provide a table name. Let's name the table Scan Details.
  3. This will take us to the table definition screen where the columns, as determined in our data modeling exercise earlier, can be created. On this screen, as illustrated in the following screenshot, you will see a column that is auto created, with the column name of Name:

    Figure 3.14 – Defining the first column

    This Name column represents a unique name or identifier for each record created inside the table. As in our example, this would...