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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 Copilot in Power Apps

At the time of writing, Copilot in Power Apps is still in limited trial. However, if you create a new Dataverse environment with the United States as the location, then you can benefit from the preview version that has been made available. Let’s work through a basic example:

  1. When we load the Power Apps portal (make.powerapps.com) in the North America geo, Copilot is the very first thing that we see. But it’s not labeled as Copilot; it is simply a chat box that asks you to describe what you want to do. This is the whole basis of Copilot, natural language being used to create an outcome.
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Figure 22.1: Copilot chat box on the Power Apps home screen

  1. For us to be able to test Copilot, we will build an app that allows us to track the number of miles that we spend on journeys in a car. The difference is that we are going to build it by using natural language. So, we can tell Copilot “I want to track my car...