Book Image

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

Chapter 4

  1. What information do I need to provide to the SharePoint web part in order to render the PowerApp?
    App URL or App ID
  2. How is an app identified as being the current version that users are actively using?
    It has Live tagged against it in the version list
  3. Can I add a sample app to a Microsoft Teams channel?
    Yes
  4. Is the PowerApps app available for Android?
    Yes
  5. What would I do to create the illusion of having the app installed locally on the device?
    Pin it to Home
  6. True or false: A PowerApp can be installed on a Classic SharePoint page.
    False, it can only be installed on a modern page
  7. If I have three versions of an app—1.0, 2.0, 3.0 (live)—then what happens if I restore version 2.0?
    It will become version 4.0