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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 the basic models

Power Apps has a small number of basic AI models, with associated controls, already built into the app studio. Since they are baked in, they are ready to drop straight into your canvas for you to start using without having to go through any bespoke customization or creation of an AI model.

The models which you have immediately available to you are:

  • Business card reader
  • Receipt processor
  • Text recognizer

As well as controls which are intended to be used for the pre-configured models, there are also controls built into the app studio which allow you to utilize your custom models in your app. They are:

  • Form processor
  • Object detector

We’ll learn more about custom models later.

For now, however, let’s focus on one my personal favourite models, the receipt processor. This has featured in a number of solutions which I’ve built around the collection of expense receipts, where a picture of the receipt can be taken and the model will extract key information...