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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

By : Eickhel Mendoza
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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.

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

Depending on the services we are connecting when working with Power Automate, there might be a license requirement. Please refer to Chapter 3, Choosing the right data source for your applications, to get more information regarding this. For these situations, we could use either of the following plans. The complete version of this application is available from our GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Power-Apps-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter04

Paid plans

In Power Automate, three licensing plans allow access to data using premium and custom connectors and also on-premises data with data gateways. The difference lies in the capacity of these plans and who will be the end user of them:

  • There are two plans for users: the Per user plan and the Per user plan with attended RPA (Robotic Process Automation). Both let you create unlimited flows, but the latter adds robotic process automation of legacy systems and includes AI builder...
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