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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

Creating a tablet app

The tablet version of Power Apps provides you with a larger canvas for building your app, one that allows you to create an app that works well on tablet devices as well as desktop browsers. However, the tablet rendition also has additional uses, as the larger size works well when creating apps that are embedded into SharePoint Online using the Power Apps web part, or to Microsoft Teams as a tab. As an example, you may have created a Power App to manage leave requests that is then placed on a page within a SharePoint intranet. The users would simply access the relevant page in the intranet, and the app would be rendered as part of the page. Using Power Apps within Teams will be covered in Chapter 4, Publishing and Leveraging Power Apps.

Creating a blank tablet app follows almost the same procedure as creating a mobile app:

  1. To create a new blank tablet app, access Power Apps from https://make.powerapps.com. Alternatively, navigate to the Office 365...