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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

Using Azure with Power Apps

So far, we have created functionalities using the various components that are available through Power Apps and then extended those by using Power Automate. In this chapter, we are going to look at the Microsoft cloud platform, Azure, and how we can start to utilize the power of Azure to perform actions that we wouldn’t be able to perform directly through Power Apps, for example, using applications which developers have created that may be bespoke to your organization.

Microsoft Azure is generally more focused on IT administrators and developers, with the user experiences not being quite as intuitive as those that have been created for Microsoft 365. Therefore, this chapter will feel as though it has a developer-focused feel to it as we start to explore how we can use scripts and code to build functionality for our app.

There are a huge number of services that can be utilized within Azure to add depth to our apps, although some areas are more...