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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
Using Azure with PowerApps

So far, we have created functionalities using the various components that are available through PowerApps and then extended that by using Flow. In this chapter, we are going to look at Azure and how we can start to utilize the power of Azure, the Microsoft cloud platform, to perform actions that we wouldn't be able to perform directly through PowerApps.

Due to the nature of Azure, this chapter will feel as though it has a developer-focused feel to it as we start to explore how we can use scripts and code to build functionality for our PowerApp.

There are a huge number of services that can be utilized within Azure to add depth to our apps, although some areas are more accessible by PowerApps than others. In this chapter, we will focus on the three areas that are used the most with PowerApp development to achieve outcomes that wouldn't be possible...