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Learn Microsoft PowerApps

By : Matthew Weston
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Learn Microsoft PowerApps

By: Matthew Weston

Overview of this book

Microsoft PowerApps provides a modern approach to building business applications for mobile, tablet, and browser. Learn Microsoft PowerApps will guide you in creating powerful and productive apps that will add value to your organization by helping you transform old and inefficient processes and workflows. Starting with an introduction to PowerApps, this book will help you set up and configure your first application. You’ll explore a variety of built-in templates and understand the key difference between types of applications such as canvas and model-driven apps, which are used to create apps for specific business scenarios. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to generate and integrate apps directly with SharePoint, and gain an understanding of PowerApps key components such as connectors and formulas. As you advance, you’ll be able to use various controls and data sources, including technologies such as GPS, and combine them to create an iterative app. Finally, the book will help you understand how PowerApps can use several Microsoft Power Automate and Azure functionalities to improve your applications. By the end of this PowerApps book, you’ll be ready to confidently develop lightweight business applications with minimal code.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with PowerApps
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Section 2: Developing Your PowerApp
11
Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp
18
Section 4: Working with Model-Driven Apps
21
Section 5: Governing PowerApps
Introducing Connectors

In the previous chapter, we started working with data in our PowerApp. However, all the data was stored locally in the PowerApp. Being able to use/access internal storage is the key to having a performant PowerApp; however, to make a truly powerful app, we need to be able to interact with data that's stored in an external data source. The mechanisms that unlock this data and make it available in PowerApps are known as connectors.

Connectors are one of the most important elements of PowerApp development as they allow the app to consume data and services from a huge number of sources. When we talk about development, we talk about the ability to reuse code so that we don't have to develop the same thing every single time. Using connectors effectively allows us to achieve this, but in a way that is very easy to use by both developers and non-developers...