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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

Understanding PowerApps licensing

There are a number of options available when it comes to licensing PowerApps. Like all of Microsoft's products, there are differing levels of license available, which will govern what functionality you can use or what connectors you have available to you. As of 1st October 2019, PowerApps licensing has undergone quite a radical change, and the following sections will explain what the key licensing aspects are.

Seeded apps

PowerApps is not included with the home versions of Office 365; however, it is included with most of the business licenses and all of the enterprise licenses. This means that the majority of Office 365 users will have the ability to create and use PowerApps to enhance, extend, and customize their Office applications. This is now what is known as seeded apps; that is, they are a part of the Office 365 and Dynamics 365 licenses.

Since they are a part of the Office 365 and Dynamics 365 packages, they do not cost you or your organization...