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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the version history and what that means for our PowerApp. We identified that we can happily work on our app in the draft stages without users being able to see our changes. Once the app has been published, it will be marked as Live and will be available for our users to start using. Should the worst-case scenario be realized and we have an error in our app, we can easily revert to a previous version by selecting Restore. The restored app will then become a new version, but won't be visible to our users until we click Publish.

We also looked at the key ways in which our users can exploit the functionality that's created using PowerApps. First, we focused on SharePoint, which uses a web part within the modern experience to embed the PowerApp onto the page. This is done by providing the web part with the App web link or ID, which is obtained from the app Details screen. This experience may be due to the web part still being in preview and may...