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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
Publishing and Leveraging PowerApps

In this chapter, we will look at how we can use our apps once they have been created and published. Until an app is published, it cannot be used by anyone else, so we will also discuss what it means when an app is published and how you can review the history of the app, as well as identify which app is currently live. In case of any issues, we will also look at how apps can be rolled back to previous versions in the simplest of ways.

We will also look at how our users will interact with the app once it has been published and how users can get the most from the PowerApps functionality available to them. The three key ways of interacting will be the following:

  • SharePoint
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Mobile device

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Publishing a PowerApp
  • Accessing your app through SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Using...