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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

Lab 9

Within this lab, we are going to add two additional elements to our asset tracking app by capturing a picture of the asset and the barcode at the point of entry. The reason for using a barcode during this lab is because most products ship with at least one identifying barcode on them, making testing the solution much simpler.

Activity 1: Updating the data source

First of all, we need to update our data source to be able to receive the two new pieces of data:

  1. Open the Excel spreadsheet, Assets.xlsx, which we have been using as our asset store throughout the previous labs.
  2. Add a column with the title Asset Photo[image].
  3. Add a column with the title Asset Barcode:

    Figure 11.11: Excel spreadsheet with added columns
  4. Save and close the spreadsheet.

Now that we have prepared our data source, let's update our app so that we can feed data into it.

Activity 2: Updating the Power App to capture a photo

Now, we are going to add two new data cards to the input form in the asset management...