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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

Creating your app

Creating the app from SharePoint could not be more simple, which is a credit to Microsoft and shows the importance of the relationship between SharePoint and PowerApps. Simply follow these basic steps:

  1. Simply navigate to your list with SharePoint using a browser.
  2. On the list actions running across the top of the list, click on the drop-down menu titled PowerApps and select Create an app.
  3. If you can't see this menu, then it is likely that you have a list item selected, indicated by a tick against a row.
  4. Simply deselect that list item, and the list menu will return:
Figure 3.3: Create an app from a list
  1. Upon clicking Create an app, a blade will appear on the right-hand side of the screen emblazoned with the PowerApps branding. This blade only requires you to give the app a unique name, that is, a name that hasn't been given to any other PowerApp, not just any apps that have been created from the current site.
  1. Once you have given it a name, we can hit Create...