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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 the barcode scanner

Barcodes come in a range of different sizes and types – even in different formats since you could consider a QR code to be a barcode. Both types of graphics are designed to encode data into a graphic that scanners can then retrieve and process.

Barcodes are used within our day-to-day lives, most commonly associated with shopping, with the goods being scanned and the scanning solution being able to immediately recognize what the goods are based on the code. Domestically, we see this also being used more and more within selling services such as Ziffit or SellitBack, where the user scans a barcode and gets immediate product feedback. The same applies to QR codes, which are now more commonly associated with web pages so that someone can scan the image and the associated page loads in the browser.

The Barcode scanner control supports the following barcodes:

  • Universal Product Code A (UPC A)
  • UPC E
  • European Article Number 8 (EAN 8)
  • CODE 39
  • CODE 128
  • Interleaved...