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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)
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Section 1: Getting Started with PowerApps
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Section 2: Developing Your PowerApp
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Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp
18
Section 4: Working with Model-Driven Apps
21
Section 5: Governing PowerApps

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced some key structures and ways to interact with data. We primarily used collections as a means of storing data locally within the app and looked at how to interact with the data stored within them.

Once data is stored in the app, we can start to represent it on the canvas using different types of controls. We can use the Gallery control to create flexible methods that display relevant data by adding controls and functionality from within the confines of a data card.

The second topic that we looked at in this chapter was all about using the data table, which makes it extremely simple for us to display and read data. However, it is also very inflexible since we can only make styling changes to the table headers and to selected rows.

Then, we learned how to interact with our data by viewing items from the data source, as well as how to edit and create new items. This is achieved by using the form control and placing it into the relevant form mode. We...