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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

Lab 5

In this lab, we are going to expand on the app that we have been building through Lab 1 and Lab 2, and we are now going to start fleshing it out with some basic functionality.

First of all, create a new screen and name it Options:

Now that we have created our new screen, we will need to provide users with a way to get to it.

Activity 1: Navigating to our new screen

First of all, we are going to use the navigate formula to transition from our welcome screen to our Options screen:

  1. Select the Welcome screen.
  2. Select the Enter button that we placed in the center of the screen:
  1. Change the Properties drop-down menu to display OnSelect:
  1. Enter the following formula:
Navigate(Options,ScreenTransition.Fade)
  1. Test your formula by holding down the Alt key and clicking on your button. Notice that it has taken you to your Options page.
  2. Return to the Welcome screen by clicking in the screen explorer.

Activity 2: Using math to position a control

We are now going to add some additional...