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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

Exploring the capabilities

AI Builder is such a fundamental part of the Power Platform that it is called out as a standalone item on the left menu when we load the Power Apps portal.

Clicking on AI Builder will open up the menu and give you the option to Explore, or to view your Models. Clicking on Explore in the first instance will give you the option to learn much more about AI Builder, including, the ability to start a free trial of AI Builder. If this is possible, you will see a banner across the top of your screen allowing you to start your trial.

As you scroll down the page, you will be presented with examples of the AI capabilities that you have within the Power Platform. Treat this in the same way as you would the Templates screen in Power Apps and Power Automate, where you have the ability to learn from some of the pre-defined models. As an example, if we review the information from receipts, then we are shown a scan of a sales receipt, with bounding boxes around the key...