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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
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

Control properties

Every control has a multitude of properties associated with it that allow us to define its look, feel, and behavior. Some of the properties are style-related and govern the appearance of the control while it's being viewed by a user, while others are action-related and require the user to interact with the control for it to take effect.

Every control shares some very basic styling properties:

  • X: This is the horizontal position of the control on your canvas and is expressed as a number of pixels (in terms of distance) from the left side of the app.
  • Y: This is the vertical position of the control on your canvas and is expressed as a number of pixels (in terms of distance) from the top of the app.
  • Width: The width of your control.
  • Height: The height of your control.
  • OnSelect: This action is taken when a user clicks or taps the control. This is set to false by default, which means that no action will be taken.

All of these properties allow you to define either static...