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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
Exploring Controls

In the previous chapters, we looked at PowerApps Studio and created canvas apps using SharePoint and a blank canvas. In this chapter, we will look at PowerApps controls, what they are, how they are used, and some of the ways in which you can interact with them.

Controls play a critical role in the development and functionality of your app as they allow users to interact with data or trigger actions. Choosing the right control for the right job is extremely important for the functionality and the look and feel of your app, as it ensures that you're making the user experience as rich and easy as possible.

In this chapter, we will focus on the main control groups. We will cover the following topics:

  • Control properties
  • Text controls
  • Controls
  • Gallery controls
  • Icons controls
  • Lab 4

In each section, we will learn how these controls work and how we can use them...