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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By: Srikumar Nair

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams is a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows, and intelligent chatbots using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents (PVA) embedded in Microsoft Teams. Without learning any coding language, you will be able to build apps with step-by-step explanations for setting up Teams, creating tables to store data, and leverage the data for your digital solutions. With the techniques covered in the book, you’ll be able to develop your first app with Dataverse for Teams within an hour! You’ll then learn how to automate repetitive tasks or build alerts using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. As you get to grips with building these digital solutions, you’ll also be able to understand when to consider upgrading from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse, along with its advanced features. Finally, you’ll explore features for administration and governance and understand the licensing requirements of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and PowerApps. Having acquired the skills to build and deploy an enterprise-grade digital solution, by the end of the book, you will have become a qualified citizen developer and be ready to lead a digital revolution in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
10
Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
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Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Chapter 4: Enhancing Your App with Images, Screens, and File Attachments

In the previous chapter, we learned to build our first application, Health Scanner, using Microsoft Dataverse. In this chapter, we will learn some more advanced topics of Dataverse and apply them to enhance the Health Scanner application.

We will begin by looking at some post-publishing details, such as handling different application versions, usage analytics, and then adding additional information that would be needed in this application (for example, adding detailed reports and a profile picture in relation to any employee).

The important topics that will be covered are as follows:

  • Application Versions and Analytics
  • Adding multiple screens to your application
  • Establishing a relationship between the tables
  • Adding images and related records to your application

Let's begin by looking at different versions of the app and how they help in application publishing. Then we&apos...