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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

Understanding Dataverse

Dataverse, which until November 2020 was known as Common Data Service (CDS), is a data source that is available on the Power Platform and that allows you to store data in a structure that shares a lot of similarities to a database. The data is structured in tables (previously known as entities) that use columns (previously known as fields) to hold and structure the data very much like a database table that you would expect to see in a simple Microsoft Access database.

Dataverse enables users to share data across several different applications within Microsoft 365 including Power Apps, Microsoft Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Power BI, and Power Pages. Unlike other data sources, to use Dataverse, we do not need to provide specific connection information as the underlying database is automatically connected to the environment where the app exists.

Dataverse allows you to build relationships between tables. Most developers within Microsoft 365 would...