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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster

Overview of this book

Microsoft 365 offers tools for content management, communication, process automation, and report creation. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook maximizes workplace collaboration and productivity using SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Delve, M365 Search, Copilot, Power Platform, Viva, Planner, and Microsoft Forms. You will find thoroughly updated recipes for SharePoint Online, covering sites, lists, libraries, pages, web parts, and learn SharePoint Framework (SPFx) basics for building solutions. You will explore many Microsoft Teams recipes to prepare it to be your organization’s central collaboration hub. You will be able to unlock Power Platform potential with recipes for Power Apps to enable low-code/no-code app development and learn to automate tasks with Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop. The book teaches you data visualization with Power BI, and chatbot creation with Power Virtual Agents (Copilot Studio). Finally, you will also learn about the cutting-edge Copilot and Gen AI functionality in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. By the end, you will be equipped with skills to effectively use Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and the Power Platform. Whether it's enhancing career prospects or improving business operations, this book is a perfect companion on your journey through the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Embed a Power Apps app in Teams

Embedding a Power Apps app as a Teams channel tab makes it easier for your colleagues to access the app and use it more regularly. In this recipe, we’ll embed a Power Apps app as a channel tab to help create a single context in which our users can interact with the app and its related processes as well as navigate to other areas and resources in Teams.

Getting Ready

You will need to be a member of a Team with permission to add tabs to your desired channel as well as a Power Apps app already built (though, alternately, you are able to create a new app from within Teams).

How to do it

Navigate to the specific channel in Microsoft Teams to which you’d like to add your Power Apps app.

  1. Click the plus sign (+) to the right of that channel’s existing tabs to add another.

  2. Search for and select Power Apps.

  3. Search for and select the name of the app you’re embedding (and also note the ability to navigate to Power Apps to create...