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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
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 9

Within this lab, we are going to add two additional elements to our asset tracking app by capturing a picture of the asset and the barcode at the point of entry. The reason for using a barcode during this lab is because most products ship with at least one identifying barcode on them, making testing the solution much simpler.

Activity 1: Updating the data source

First of all, we need to update our data source to be able to receive the two new pieces of data:

  1. Open the Excel spreadsheet, Assets.xlsx, which we have been using as our asset store throughout the previous labs.
  2. Add a column with the title Asset Photo[image].
  3. Add a column with the title Asset Barcode:

  1. Save and close the spreadsheet.

Now that we have prepared our data source, let's update our app so that we can feed data into it.

Activity 2: Updating the PowerApp to capture a photo

Now, we are going to add two new data cards to the input form in the asset management app in order to capture a picture of the asset...