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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

By : Eickhel Mendoza
Book Image

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

By: Eickhel Mendoza

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)

Renaming files in SharePoint document libraries

SharePoint is the ideal choice for document classification systems. This platform provides a standard set of metadata properties while allowing us to create custom properties to improve data categorization.

As an example, let's take a document library that will hold company contracts. We can enhance this library by adding extra columns such as the contractor's name, the contract expiration date, and the department that requested this contract. Besides using this information for ordering and classification, you can also act on this data:

  • Build a Power Automate cloud flow that sends a Teams notification to a department channel warning them about an expiring contract.
  • Design dashboards based on this data to gain insight into the number of contracts per contractor or which department is requesting more contracts.
  • Create a Power App to request more data while on the go. This app can even gather signatures for...