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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 the Future of Power Apps

You can probably tell from the topics that we have covered throughout the book that Power Apps is a progressive platform, with new features being added, interfaces being improved, and updates constantly landing. All of these make Power Apps a great place to be working, not only because of the excitement of what these changes mean but also because Microsoft is constantly striving to bring the latest and greatest technology to business users. The biggest subject for everyone throughout 2022 and 2023 has been the mainstream introduction of artificial intelligence. In this chapter, we are going to look at one of the most exciting additions to Power Apps, the introduction of Copilot.

By the end of this chapter, you will gain an understanding of the following:

  • How artificial intelligence is becoming more mainstream within our working lives
  • How Copilot is going to help you in the future
  • How you will be able to use Copilot once...