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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

Creating Power Apps

Power Apps is essentially a form builder that you can use to build rich and powerful online forms for your business. With the help of Power Apps, you can build whole custom business applications that connect to your business data, whether it’s stored on-premises or in cloud storage. Apps built using Power Apps provide a rich user interface that can run seamlessly in the browser or on mobile devices (phone or tablet).

These apps are built using Power Apps Studio. When building an app, you can choose between a web or mobile layout. With Power Apps on mobile, you can even leverage mobile device features such as GPS and the camera in the apps.

Power Apps is a low-code development platform designed primarily for end-users, but developers can take it to the next level; not only to create apps for end-users but also to build “design concepts.” For now, it is enough for us to learn how to create apps at a beginner level.

The first thing...