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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

Embedding Power BI in your app

Power BI is another fantastic tool which sits in the low-code Power Platform family, allowing us to build interactive visualizations without having to write code. Effectively, the key selling points for both Power Apps and Power Automate also relate to Power BI.

We have the ability to create visualizations within Power BI, and then use the Power BI tile control which you may have already noticed on the Charts menu to display our report directly within our app. The key thing to be aware of, is that for this functionality to be available, you will required Power BI Pro licenses for both the report creator as well as any users.

A brief intro to Power BI

We will have a very quick walk through of bringing our data into Power BI and creating a basic report. If you’d like to learn more then you could check out <ENTER PACKT POWER BI BOOK TITLE HERE> which will enable you to really unlock its full potential.

In order for us to get going though, we firstly...