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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

Text controls

Text controls are the most common types of control that you will use within your canvas app. They are designed to display textual information, as well as receive inputs from a user, and provide the mainstay of any app. They are commonly used throughout the web to present and allow interaction with data, so, from a user experience point of view, their behavior is well understood by even the most basic of users.

The first control we will look at is one of the most common controls you will use in an app: a label.

LABEL

A LABEL is a control that is read-only and allows you to output text to the user but not collect input. The label text is a string; therefore, it can contain alphanumeric and special characters and can either be directly assigned a value or can use a formula to generate an output.

Labels are one of the most versatile controls because there are a lot of properties that can be configured to achieve the desired effect. This could be something as simple as putting...