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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)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with PowerApps
6
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

Understanding standard connectors

Standard connectors are connectors that are freely available for use with every level of licensing within PowerApps. They are available across the entire Microsoft Power Platform, so they can be easily utilized in Power Automate and Logic Apps, as well as anything we create in PowerApps.

Standard connectors cover the most commonly used data sources, such as SharePoint, OneDrive, and even some third-party data sources such as Google Drive. You can establish connections with these data sources either from within your PowerApp while editing, or outside the PowerApp from the data menu. Once the connections list is open, click on Connections | New connection at the top of the page to begin the connection selection process:

Figure 8.1: New connection list

Once you've started this process, you have the ability to select a connection to any data source in the list, such as SharePoint or the Common Data Service, which we will explore in Chapter 15, Introducing...