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Hands-On Microsoft Lists

By : João Ferreira, Rene Modery
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Book Image

Hands-On Microsoft Lists

5 (1)
By: João Ferreira, Rene Modery

Overview of this book

Microsoft Lists is an extremely flexible and powerful platform for creating custom data models. Hands-On Microsoft Lists is an easy-to-read guide for those who want to get started with Lists, as well as those who are already familiar with the basic concepts and want to create custom and flexible Lists that are easily available through a web interface. This comprehensive introduction to Lists will show you how to get up to speed in no time with the help of practical guidance and examples. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, you’ll understand how to use and implement Microsoft Lists effectively. You’ll start by covering all the basic concepts that will help you to build your Microsoft Lists and get the most out of the platform. As you progress, you’ll explore how to customize Microsoft Lists layouts and forms. Later chapters will guide you through integrating Microsoft Lists with the Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll work with practical scenarios that you can use daily to improve the collaboration in your organization. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll have learned how to create custom data models to improve the way your data is put together, managed, and consumed in your workplace.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

What are Microsoft Lists views?

As shown in Chapter 2, Creating Your First List, you can extend your list with additional columns. However, you do not always want to show all these columns at the same time and in the same order, and sometimes you may also want to provide prefiltered data. This is where list views come in.

Views allow you to define which columns to display and how to sort, group, and filter the underlying data. This way, instead of showing all data on one large screen, you can provide multiple views to show relevant extracts of your data to the people accessing your list, with the goal of making it easier to see and process. For example, if you think of the Planned IT Projects list from the previous chapter, you can have a main view to show all IT projects with important columns. Additionally, you can also add a view to only show projects that have an expected cost of greater than $25,000, so that high-cost projects can be seen much more quickly. Or, if you have...