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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 your model-driven app

First, we should publish the app, and then we can click Play to launch it. This will allow us to interact with the app within the browser in the same way that we can with canvas apps.

Once you have launched your app, you will be faced with your working model-driven app. This is where it becomes apparent to users that we are extremely limited in terms of what we can do with the look and feel of the app; it is the price to pay for it being so quick to design. This lack of design freedom really means that model-driven apps are better suited to back-office functions. We will now run the app so that we can see the user interface:

  1. Click the Play button in the top-right corner of the model-driven app designer window to see the app in fullscreen mode.
  2. Click on one of the navigation items on the left of the screen. This will then display the data contained within the table in the center of the screen.
  3. After clicking on Accounts, we will...