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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

Lab 2

In this lab, we are going to create a list within Microsoft SharePoint, and then generate an app from it. This will result in your first working PowerApp; however, after this chapter, we will continue to build our app from scratch. This lab assumes no prior experience with SharePoint Online, therefore, it will walk you through step by step how to create the list ready for the app:

  1. Navigate to https://portal.office.com and log in using your credentials:
  1. From the apps list, select SharePoint, which will load the SharePoint home screen:
  1. Click on + Create site and, in the site creation blade that appears on the right of the screen, select Team site:
  1. Create a new Team site named it Griffton IT Assets:
  1. You will then be presented with a new SharePoint site:
  1. From the + New menu on your newly created homepage, select List:
  1. On the new list blade, enter the list name as Assets and then click Create.
  2. Once your list has been created, click + Add Column (located next to Title...