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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 13

In this lab, we will practice the skills that we discussed in this chapter by utilizing the AAD connector. We will replace our previous app security with an AAD security group, and then create an admin screen so that we can add and remove users as required. For this to be successful, your account will need write access to AAD within your tenancy.

We will begin by creating the security group.

Activity 1: Creating the security group

First of all, we will create a security group called App Administrators. Let's get started:

  1. Navigate to the Azure portal (portal.azure.com):

  1. From the menu on the left-hand side, select Azure Active Directory to display the AAD overview:
  1. In the Azure Active Directory menu, select Groups and select + New group to open the group creation screen:
  1. Fill in the relevant information by naming the group App Administrators and ensuring that the group type is Security:
  1. Ensure that you assign yourself to the Owners and Members for the group by...