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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
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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 created our first PowerApp and did so with two different canvas apps. First, we created a mobile canvas app that has a fixed size, regardless of the size of the device that we are going to use the app on. Then, we created a tablet canvas app that allows us to change the dimensions of the canvas to suit specific devices if we don't use one of the predefined ones. Both types of apps can be set to always portrait, always landscape, or so that they allow rotation.

We started to apply basic customization to the app by assigning a customized icon and background so that we have our basic branding.

There are also two areas to be aware of to ensure that your PowerApp is going to continue to work as new changes roll out. The first is the preview features area, which you should periodically turn on and test your app in to ensure that it will continue to work if Microsoft deploys new updates. The second is the experimental features area, which allows you to take a...