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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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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
Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp

Within this section, we are going to start to dive deeper into the functionality that PowerApps allows us to use for the creation of our apps.

In the first chapter within this section, we will look at the first area where our PowerApps can access data by using the capabilities of the local device. We will explore the options that we have to not only capture and track geographic location but also how we can output that data back into our app.

Next, we will again explore more integrations with the device, by learning how to use the camera. We will be using the camera to not only capture images, but also to capture data from barcodes and QR codes, and then using that data within our apps.

In Chapter 11, Securing Your PowerApps, we will look at how we can add levels of security into our app, to provide different experiences for...