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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
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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

Publishing a PowerApp

Before we can utilize our PowerApp in any application, we need to ensure that it is published. Publishing works in very much the same way as how SharePoint publishing works, whereby you can work on the app and have multiple versions associated with it. This means that you don't need to maintain multiple copies of an app; you can happily work on an app in its draft state while your users are still using the last published version. Each time you save your app, it will create a new version that allows you to revert to previous versions if you need to:

Figure 4.1: Version history of an app

Now that we have seen what the version history screen looks like, let's take a look at how we can get there and start using it.

Version history

To view all of the versions of an app, navigate to the Apps list on your PowerApps portal. This can be found by clicking the Apps link on the left hand, which will allow you to find your apps quite easily. Once you have your list...