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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
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

Returning data from Flow

It is conceivable that, while we are using Power Automate to perform processing that is too complex for PowerApps, we will wish to return data to PowerApps so that we can, for example, send feedback stating that something has happened.

Microsoft Power Automate has a built-in action that allows us to return data in a number of different formats, and that action is called Respond to PowerApps. This action is available from within Microsoft Power Automate as a part of the PowerApps connector. The easiest way to find this is to use the search box when adding an action and then searching for the name of the action, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 13.16: Finding the Respond to PowerApps action

This action allows you to return data in a number of different formats, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 13.17: The Respond to PowerApps action options

This action allows you to combine a number of these data types so that you can return them as a single...