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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

Introducing Model-Driven Apps

In the previous chapters of this book, we used several data sources that are external to the Power Platform. We are now going to explore how we can use Microsoft Dataverse as a data source that underpins the Power Platform applications and provides a robust, yet simple, method for storing data in a way that feels very similar to creating tables within a database.

We have already learned about canvas apps as we’ve progressed through this book; now, it is time to introduce another kind of Power Apps application: model-driven apps, which have a different look, feel, and editing experience to what we have covered so far. The emphasis switches from the design aspect to the data, meaning that much more work takes place around the data structures before the actual app build begins.

Within this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding Dataverse
  • Understanding the Common Data Model (CDM)
  • Modeling data
  • ...