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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
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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

Securing your data

The key thing to understand with PowerApps is that the actual security of the data always lies in the data source rather than within the app itself. The ability of users to access data from various sources will depend on the connection that is established with the data source. PowerApps is purely designed to be a user-facing interface to access the data source, and therefore does not, by default, have any perception of the user and the rights they may have.

SQL Server, as an example, will use a username and password to authenticate and establish a connection with the data source. Any users using the app will automatically be able to access the data using the credentials that are stored within the connection.

Other data sources, such as SharePoint, require both the app creator and any subsequent users of the app to have explicit access to the underlying data source. So, for example, if your app user only has read access to a SharePoint list, yet your app allows them...