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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 Microsoft Copilot

There is a huge buzz around the concept of Copilot in the Microsoft community, and with the widespread implementation of Copilot throughout Microsoft 365, it’s hard to not get excited.

In 2022, a company called OpenAI became known globally for launching a web-based service called ChatGPT. Building on over a decade of experience of building AI models and mining data, ChatGPT introduced the concept of interactive chat with a bot that answered the questions that you asked of it. Based on deep learning, this brought a difference to the way that we as users find information. Where we are usually sign-posted to a website to consume information, instead, it presented an answer to us in natural language based on the content that it had crawled. Similar models were also launched to allow for the creation of AI art, Dall-E as an example, where I could describe what I want and AI would generate a completely unique image for me.

At the start of 2023...