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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)
13
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14
Index

Connecting to data sources

Power Apps lets you build business applications that use data from line-of-business applications. Using Power Apps, you can build apps that work with local as well as connected data sources.

Connected data sources are external to Power Apps such as Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, OneDrive for Business, Dropbox, and SQL Server.

Local data sources save the data in data tables within Power Apps. Collections are one such data source that gets stored within the Power App when the Power App is saved and published.

We will see how you can connect to data sources in this recipe.

Getting ready

You need Power Apps plan included in your Microsoft 365 subscription in order to build a Power App. Download the Cars.xlsx file from Chapter 14 folder in the GitHub repository of this book here https://m365book.page.link/github and save the file in your OneDrive for Business.

How to do it ...

To connect to a data source, do the following steps:

  1. Open the Power Apps designer...