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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

Returning data to Power Apps

When we think about functions and processes from a pro-code perspective, more often than not we pass data in to a function to get something back. We can apply exactly the same thinking to our flows which we’re using with Power Apps. As well as having a trigger to bring data in, we have an action which will allow us to return data from the flow to the app.

When we are looking for our Power Apps actions, we once again follow the same process as we did for Outlook. Search for the Connector, and then select your action. So this time, when we search for our connector, we will search for “PowerApps”. There are certain areas where the branding for Power Apps hasn’t been updated, and Power Automate is unfortunately one of them. So make sure you search for it without the space!

When we have located our connector, we can then select our action which is called “Respond to a PowerApp or flow”

Figure 14.17 Searching for a connecter to find actions