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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

Introducing environments

In its most simple form, an environment is an area that contains and allows you to share business data, apps, and flows. They fulfill an important role in the security and separation of apps, especially where apps may have different intended audiences.

By default, every tenancy will have one environment created that is the default environment, where all apps and flows are created.

A tenancy is the organizational instance of Office 365 that serves all of the various applications.

All users who are licensed to use PowerApps and flows automatically get maker access to this environment, which means that they can immediately start building, creating, and sharing connections. However, there are circumstances where you should consider creating additional environments, such as when you want to control who has permissions to create new apps.

The creation of new environments requires you to have a per-user license assigned.

As we already have an environment created, let...