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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
11
Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp
18
Section 4: Working with Model-Driven Apps
21
Section 5: Governing PowerApps

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at some of the elements that currently exist within Microsoft Azure that provide a lot of benefits to the creators of PowerApps. There are a number of connectors that exist within PowerApps, some standard and some premium, that allow us to exploit various areas of Azure.

The first area that we looked at was AAD, where we can interact with and manage user objects within the user profile manager. This is quite useful when we want to create interactions with users objects, such as the ability to add or remove users from a security group within a PowerApp, which is extremely useful when combined with security.

The biggest area of exploration was Azure Automation, which allows us to execute and get responses from PowerShell scripts directly from our PowerApp. This type of Azure interaction is extremely popular within PowerApps development as it doesn't require huge amounts of development experience it just requires that we have the skills...