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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
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 data loss prevention

Without a doubt, data is one of the most valuable commodities in the world. Therefore, organizations must take all necessary steps to protect their data to ensure that it cannot be used to exploit or damage them or their users. Data is critical to the operation and, therefore, the success of an organization. Because of this, the PowerApps Admin center gives you the ability to employ protective measures.

Employing protective measures means that we define which connectors may access and share your organization's data. The policies we define relate to both PowerApps and Flow and define which connectors can be used together. For example, we can stop the use of SharePoint data being used for external connectors, such as Twitter. It also ensures that business data is being handled in a consistent manner across the whole organization.

All Microsoft DLP tools should be considered useful tools for security. Using them won't guarantee that you will never...