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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

Lab 8

Within this lab, we are going to add elements of GPS connectivity to our app. To follow along with this lab, you will need to have completed the previous labs, where we have been building our asset app. You will also need a mobile device to fully test the functionality we are about to develop.

Activity 1: Updating the data source

The first thing that we need to do is update our data source so that we can capture and store some location data:

  1. Open the Excel spreadsheet that we used previously to store our assets and add another column called Location:
  1. Add the following coordinates to the Location fields for the three items in the table: 40.804000, -74.464460.
  2. Save and close the spreadsheet and return to PowerApps.

Now that we have updated our data source, we will add more functionality to the app so that we can use the location functions.

Activity 2: Creating a new asset

In this activity, we will update our PowerApp so that we can take advantage of the GPS functionality of the...