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Learn Microsoft PowerApps

By : Matthew Weston
Book Image

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
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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

Understanding how to store images within PowerApps

Before we start to utilize the image controls within PowerApps, it is important to understand where we can actually store them. PowerApps can read and use images from a number of different storage types, including SharePoint. However, while saving the images, we can only natively save them to Excel, SQL Server, and the Common Data Service. While we can't directly save the images to SharePoint (and other more obvious image stores), there are ways in which we can utilize other areas of Office 365 to save images, which we will investigate in the next chapter.

If we are talking about the storage of static images, we are not expecting the user to be able to create, edit, or delete them; we can store images locally with the PowerApp itself.

But really, when we are considering how we want to use images within PowerApps, especially given that we are designing for a mobile device, the obvious way of using images is with the camera control...