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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)

Learning Power Automate and Microsoft Lists

Power Automate allows you to create workflows in Microsoft 365 and automate processes and respond to actions and events. This includes cloud flows, which we will cover in this section, as well as desktop flows, which are used to perform repetitive actions on actual devices. Any flow mentioned within this chapter is a cloud flow, and we will refer to them as flows only.

Power Automate uses so-called connectors to connect to the various offerings within the Microsoft cloud, such as SharePoint, Outlook, Azure, and others, as well as external systems. When using Power Automate, you will not find any connector specific to Microsoft Lists. Instead, you will need to use the connectors built for SharePoint that allow you to connect to any list, team, or personnel.

What is a Power Automate connector?

A Power Automate connector allows you to read or write information from a Microsoft or third-party solution without writing code, allowing you...