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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at one of the most important aspects of any app development—the ability to secure our app and its data. We covered the topic of security by looking at three areas in particular—securing the app, securing the data, and creating in-app security.

While securing the app, we saw how we have the ability to choose who we share the app with and to determine whether they are users of the app or co-owners. App owners are able to invite individual users, AAD security groups, or everyone within the organization. By inviting AAD security groups, you lose the ability to see who has access to the site within PowerApps.

While it does secure the data, PowerApps is still just a user interface for a data source, and therefore security should always be considered regarding the data source itself. There are some data sources, such as SQL Server, that have the username and password defined in the connection, and therefore these will be used for all users. Other...