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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
Book Image

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
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Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
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Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Application Versions and Analytics

Application versions help you to keep track of changes and manage these changes better. For example, once you release version 1.0 of your app and it goes live, you can start working on version 2.0 and introducing new features, as we are about to start doing in the next topic in this chapter. Meanwhile, while doing so, we will also want to see how version 1.0 is doing with respect to usage. As an app owner or a product owner invested in the success of your app, you will need to monitor some key usage metrics, such as the number of daily active users of your application. In the next few steps, let's take a look at how we can see these analytics:

  1. To begin, let's start by opening the Build hub. As seen in the following screenshot, you can navigate to the editing experience of the app again:

    Figure 4.1 – Build hub view

  2. Additionally, if you click the See all link, you get to see more details of the app, including versions and...