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Hands-On Microsoft Lists

By : João Ferreira, Rene Modery
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Book Image

Hands-On Microsoft Lists

5 (1)
By: João Ferreira, Rene Modery

Overview of this book

Microsoft Lists is an extremely flexible and powerful platform for creating custom data models. Hands-On Microsoft Lists is an easy-to-read guide for those who want to get started with Lists, as well as those who are already familiar with the basic concepts and want to create custom and flexible Lists that are easily available through a web interface. This comprehensive introduction to Lists will show you how to get up to speed in no time with the help of practical guidance and examples. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, you’ll understand how to use and implement Microsoft Lists effectively. You’ll start by covering all the basic concepts that will help you to build your Microsoft Lists and get the most out of the platform. As you progress, you’ll explore how to customize Microsoft Lists layouts and forms. Later chapters will guide you through integrating Microsoft Lists with the Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll work with practical scenarios that you can use daily to improve the collaboration in your organization. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll have learned how to create custom data models to improve the way your data is put together, managed, and consumed in your workplace.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

What is Microsoft Lists?

If you are familiar with SharePoint, the concept of lists won't be new to you. In reality, Microsoft Lists is an evolution of the original SharePoint Lists, which became a separate application for aggregating all the new lists that are created with Microsoft Lists, as well as all the preexisting lists that were created with SharePoint.

Microsoft Lists was designed to help you track and organize your work, thus giving you a holistic view of all the lists you have on the sites you have shared with your teams, as well as your own personal lists.

If you are not familiar with the concept of lists yet and are starting from scratch, think of Microsoft Lists as a lightweight database that you can build and customize according to your business requirements, without the need to worry about the rules of more complex relational databases.

Lightweight databases aren't just used to store and share data – they are much more powerful than that. For...