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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
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

Exploring the auto-generated PowerApp

When the build functionality has completed successfully, you will have a PowerApp created for you that has several screens along with several components on those screens. However, the key thing to notice is that the generated app will always be created on a mobile canvas; you don't get the option to create a tablet version.

The generated app contains all of the functionality which you would expect to be able to carry out in SharePoint itself, being able to add, edit, and delete data from the list which the app was generated from. You can press play in the top-right corner of the studio, or run the app and you will be able to interact with the data in SharePoint.

Browse screen

Assuming that you have placed some data into your list, you will see several controls on the screen, which will allow you to browse your data. There are several key learning areas on this screen, which we will investigate later in this book and they are the ability to search...