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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
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Section 2: Developing Your PowerApp
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Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp
18
Section 4: Working with Model-Driven Apps
21
Section 5: Governing PowerApps

Creating Flows through the Azure portal

To access Flow, we can either navigate directly to https://flow.microsoft.com or we can launch it from the Office 365 portal (portal.office.com), which allows us to select Power Automate from the list of available applications.

Once we have navigated to Flow, we have a variety of options available so that we can get started. These options are quite similar to those that are available for PowerApps since we can either start from a template, which has a number of preconfigured actions that we can then modify, or start from scratch, where we have a completely blank canvas on which to build the Flow as we see fit.

The first option we will look at is creating a Flow from one of the existing templates.

Creating a Flow from templates

If you are new to Power Automate, then there is a huge number of templates covering a vast array of scenarios, all of which can be accessed from the Templates menu option on the left-hand menu. These template Flows can also...