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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 model-driven app from scratch

The process of creating a model-driven app starts off in the same way as the process of creating a canvas app: we first navigate to the Power Apps maker portal. The option that we need is next to Canvas App on the app selection screen and is titled Model-driven App. When we create a new model-driven app, the editing experience starts to change immediately.

Unlike when we created a canvas app, there is no mention of whether we are developing it for a mobile or tablet. Instead, we now need to shift our mindset into creating just a single app that is responsive to both being viewed in browsers and on mobile devices.

We can create a model-driven app in the following way:

  1. The initial creation of the model-driven app shares some similarities with the creation of canvas apps. Such similarities include being able to define what the name of the app is and the description. After you enter those fields and click Create, the app will...