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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
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

The function browser

Before we get delve into the world of functions, note that you—as a developer of PowerApps—are not expected to remember all of the functions that can be combined to create a formula.

The PowerApps Studio has a selection drop-down menu next to the formula bar, as shown in Figure 6.1: The formula selector, which allows you to browse and select which function you would like to use. Each function is categorized by type, which means that you can select the correct function based on what you're trying to do. For example, if we wanted to concatenate two string values, we could select Text from the drop-down menu and then select Concatenate from the browser:

Figure 6.1: The formula selector

There are two actions that I can trigger when interacting with the function browser. If I single-click on a function, it will provide a basic description at the bottom of the menu and supply a hyperlink to tell you more about that particular function. If I double-click...