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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

Implementing offline capability

Now that we have discussed the component parts of building offline capability, we will look at the overall process to determine how and when each of the various functions should be used.

The process will look at how and when we interact with the master source of data, most notably with the on-start properties to ensure that we are loading the correct data at the point that the app is launched. We will then look at how we can work offline, followed by the handling of data when the app comes back online. To achieve this, we need to consider the following:

  • Implementing the on-start process
  • Working offline
  • Synchronizing data between the online and offline data stores

The first element to consider is how we interact with the data and load the data from the correct place to start building the offline capability.

Implementing the on-start process

The most important part of working offline is that we need to start preparing for it from the point that the app...