Creating a canvas app from a blank template
Power Apps has several templates that give you a head start in creating an app; however, if you want to start from scratch, you can start with a blank template. The following example demonstrates how you can create an app from scratch. The app queries data from a spreadsheet in your OneDrive for Business. This demonstration only focuses on the basics and doesn't go into detail on building a fully functional solution.
It is recommended that you start with a template that closely resembles what you are trying to build. This will save you a lot of time and effort.
In the next section, we will build an app that gets a list of cars from an Excel spreadsheet that is stored in OneDrive for Business:
Although we can extend this app to add/update and delete records from the spreadsheet, our intention is to just introduce the users to the concept of a screen, a control, and a data connection.
Getting ready
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