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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 environments

In its most simple form, an environment is an area that contains and allows you to store and share business data, apps, and other services within the Power Platform. They fulfill an important role in the security and separation of apps, especially if the apps have different intended audiences, or the data needs to be completely isolated from anything else, or if you want to apply different policies to control what users are doing.

Every tenancy will already have one environment created, the default environment, where all apps and flows are created.

A tenancy is the organizational instance of Microsoft 365 that serves all of the various applications.

All users who are licensed to use Power Apps and Power Automate automatically get maker access to this environment, which means that they can immediately start building, creating, and sharing connections. Microsoft refers to the default environment as the personal productivity environment...