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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
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Section 1: Getting Started with PowerApps
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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

Summary

Within this chapter, we have explored the close relationship between SharePoint and PowerApps, and the way that PowerApps can greatly enhance the way that you work with data. First of all, we explored how we can create an app directly from SharePoint, which is different from how we created apps in previous chapters, either from blank or from a template. This is especially useful if you are concentrating on getting your underlying data correct first before starting to develop the app itself. Just remember that not all of the data types within SharePoint will map automatically into your PowerApp form, so complex data types such as managed metadata or new data types such as location will be created but will be read-only.

Also, when generating apps from SharePoint, keep in mind that it will generate an app based on the mobile canvas, so if you need a tablet canvas, then you'll need to create that from blank and select SharePoint as the data source.

We also looked at how we can...