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Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

By : Matthew Weston, Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Book Image

Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

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By: Matthew Weston, Elisa Bárcena Martín

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power Apps provides a modern approach to building low-code business applications for mobiles, tablets, browsers, and Microsoft Teams. The second edition of Learn Microsoft Power Apps will guide you in creating well designed and secure apps that transform old processes and workflows. Learn Microsoft Power Apps starts with an introduction to Power Apps to help you feel comfortable with the creation experience. Using screenshots from the latest UI, you will be guided through how to create an app, building your confidence to start developing further. This book will help you design, set up, and configure your first application by writing simple formulas. You'll learn about the different types of apps you can build in Power Apps and which one applies best to your requirements. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to identify the right data storage system for you, with new chapters covering how to integrate apps with SharePoint or Dataverse. As you advance, you’ll be able to use various controls, connectors, and data sources to create a powerful, interactive app. For example, this book will help you understand how Power Apps can use Microsoft Power Automate, Power BI, and Azure functionalities to improve your applications. Finally, you will be introduced to the emerging Power Apps Copilot tool, which uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the app building process. By the end of this Power Apps book, you’ll be ready to confidently develop lightweight business applications with minimal code.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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Index
Appendix

Understanding how to store images within Power Apps

Before we start to utilize the image controls within Power Apps, it is important to understand where we can actually store them. Power Apps can read and use images from a number of different storage types, including SharePoint. However, while saving the images, we can only natively save them to Excel, SQL Server, and Dataverse, which we will discover more about in Chapter 19, Dataverse. While we can’t directly save the images to SharePoint (and other more obvious image stores), there are ways in which we can utilize other areas of Office 365 to save images, which we will investigate in the next chapter.

When we talk about capturing images, we are introducing ways in which we can use visual inputs, rather than constantly using something textual. Really, when we are considering how we want to use images within Power Apps, especially given that we are designing for a mobile device, the obvious way of using images is with...