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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

By : Eickhel Mendoza
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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

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By: Eickhel Mendoza
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Overview of this book

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook is a complete resource filled with meticulously crafted recipes to help you build customized business apps that meet ever-changing enterprise demands. You will learn how to design modern apps with the low-code approach in a rapid application development environment by achieving enterprise-wide business agility.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Download the example code files
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Conventions used
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Chapter 1: Building pixel-perfect solutions with Canvas Power Apps
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Chapter 1: Building pixel-perfect solutions with Canvas Power Apps
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Discovering best practices when building canvas apps
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Creating an incident tracking solution – Setting up the data source
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Creating an incident tracking solution – Building the user interface
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Embedding an expense tracking list with SharePoint list Power Apps
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Creating a Power App from existing data
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Chapter 2: Building from data with model-driven apps
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Chapter 2: Building from data with model-driven apps
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Technical requirements
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Exploring Dataverse
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Building a help desk solution
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Defining data structures
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Building the model-driven app
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Setting up business process logic
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Designing dashboards to visualize data
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Integrating canvas apps inside model-driven apps
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Chapter 3: Choosing the right data source for your applications
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Chapter 3: Choosing the right data source for your applications
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Data sources and the licensing model
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Reducing your application complexity by using Azure SQL database views
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Choosing the right data source – real-world tests
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Integrating on-premises data with the data source flexibility of canvas apps
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Improving application speed and responsiveness by using static data
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Consuming external data by using Dataflows
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Chapter 4: Automating processes with Power Automate
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Chapter 4: Automating processes with Power Automate
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Technical requirements
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The different types of flows
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Creating a sales survey solution with Power Automate and Microsoft Forms
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Building a file processing automation for SharePoint document libraries
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Overcoming Power Apps delegation with Power Automate
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Creating a modular solution with Power Automate
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Chapter 5: Extending the Platform
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Chapter 5: Extending the Platform
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Technical requirements
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User interface guidelines
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Setting up your first canvas Power Apps component
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Building a floating action button component
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Creating a vertical navigation component
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Developing template fields using components
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Using the Power Apps component library
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Expanding communications with custom connectors
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Chapter 6: Improving User Experience
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Chapter 6: Improving User Experience
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Technical requirements
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Enhancing application interfaces
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Building a responsive password manager in Power Apps – setting up the Azure Key Vault service
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Building a responsive password manager in Power Apps – designing an adaptive application
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Chapter 7: Power Apps Everywhere
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Chapter 7: Power Apps Everywhere
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Discovering Power Apps Mobile and the Windows desktop player
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Leveraging modern browsers for Power Apps
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Improving SharePoint document libraries with Power Apps
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Embedding Power Apps in SharePoint pages
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Making Power BI reports interactive with embedded Power Apps
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Working with Power Apps in Microsoft Teams channels
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Automating the integration of Power Apps inside Teams
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Building apps with Dataverse for Teams
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Chapter 8: Empowering your applications with no code Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter 8: Empowering your applications with no code Artificial Intelligence
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Technical requirements
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Creating a customer success solution using sentiment analysis
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Building a text recognition system using canvas apps
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Using Power Automate to create an invoice classification system
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Chapter 9: Discovering the Power Platform admin center
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Chapter 9: Discovering the Power Platform admin center
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Technical requirements
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Managing Power Platform environments
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Gathering Power Platform analytics
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Synchronizing data using data integration
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Managing connectors through data policies
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Chapter 10: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
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Chapter 10: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
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Technical requirements
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Sharing OneDrive data between tenants
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Playing with vectors – SVGs in canvas apps
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Transferring SharePoint List Power Apps from one site to another
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Troubleshooting using the Power Apps canvas Monitor
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Extending screen real estate using the canvas control
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Handling image resources in components
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Changing Azure SQL Server connections in Power Apps with ease
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Renaming files in SharePoint document libraries
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Chapter 11: Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework
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Chapter 11: Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework
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Technical requirements
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Setting up your environments
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Configuring Font Awesome
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Creating the project
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Building the application logic
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Deploying the solution
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Testing the component on a canvas app
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Extending screen real estate using the canvas control

When building apps, you need to take into account the specific user interface needs for your app. You can design many screens, use tabbed menus, or use forms to organize the input data.

One control remains hidden from both Insert methods in Power Apps Studio, which only appears when a specific type of screen gets created: the canvas. This control generates a container that scrolls vertically to the dimensions you specify, just like a website on the internet. This recipe will show you how to use it.

Getting ready

The completed app, as well as the image resources, are available in our GitHub repository located at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Power-Apps-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter10

How to do it…

The following steps will use the canvas control to replicate a website:

  1. Go to the Power Apps portal, https://make.powerapps.com/, and click on Canvas app from blank.
  2. On the dialog that opens...
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