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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

Lab 12

To complete this lab, you will need to have a Power Automate license, which can be either an Office 365/Dynamics 365 seeded license, a per-user license, or a per-app license.

Within this lab, we will use Power Automate to implement notifications when a new asset is added using our app. Using Flow, we will generate an email and send it to the person who is going to receive the asset. To do this, we will need to update the data source so that we can store the assignee and then generate the Flow.

Activity 1: Updating the data source

Within our data source, we need to create an additional field within the data table. This is going to contain the UPN of the person that the asset is going to be assigned to. Let's get started:

  1. Open the Assets.xlsx workbook.
  2. After Asset Barcode, insert a new column.
  3. Name the column Assignee:
  1. Save your Excel workbook and close the program.

Now that we know how to update a data source, let's create a Flow.

Activity 2: Creating a Flow

Now,...