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

Building an Instant Flow

In this section, let's build an instant flow and then invoke it from one of the screens in the Health Scanner app. Instant flows are useful when human judgment is required before taking certain actions instead of just triggering a flow, as in the case of an automated flow, based on certain conditions being met. Let's start by creating an Instant flow from the Build hub, just like you initiated creating automated flows:

  1. Click on the New button with the drop-down control, followed by Instant flow from the Build hub (as we did when we started creating an automated flow). On the new instant flow initiation screen, you will see the option to name the flow and select Power Apps as the source of the trigger, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 6.19 – Creating an instant flow

  2. Let's name the flow Notify With Instant Flow and click Create. You will see the same Power Automate flow editor screen with the only difference here...