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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)
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have investigated how we can start to leverage media controls to capture images that we use in our PowerApps, and highlighted the limitations around the storage, that is, we're only able to directly store media in Excel, SQL Server, or CDS. However, we can convert the images into a base64 string that we can use within Microsoft Power Automate that we can store elsewhere.

We investigated the camera and the ability to capture images from the camera control so that we can use them within our app. We also looked at two ways of being able to capture the image, the first of which is by tapping the image itself, which captures the photo property of the control. The second way was by creating a separate button to take the picture, which uses the stream property instead. The thing we must remember when using the stream property is that we need to change StreamRate to a minimum value of 100.

The Barcode scanner control provides us with the ability to capture data...