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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

Securing your data

First and foremost the most important thing that you do with any of your apps is consider the security of the data itself. We can put a number of protections into the app that allow people to only see what we want them to see, but if they have access to the underlying data source then they could still get the data. This is extremely important to understand when using data sources such as SharePoint, where the underlying service provides its own user interface.

When using other data sources such as SQL, or Dataverse, it’s not as straight forward to be able to access the data directly, but that should be no reason why we shouldn’t still apply security to our data.

SharePoint

There are numerous ways in which permissions can be applied within SharePoint to protect data, as well as varying levels at which permissions can be applied.

Firstly, SharePoint can use groups of users to apply permissions, such as the following:

  • Its own group structure called a SharePoint...