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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

Summary

The introduction of Copilot into Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform is a giant step forward for all business users in terms of how they interact with the various services that they use on a day-to-day basis. It is also a great show of strength in the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, who are trying to accelerate the rate at which new AI experiences are brought to the business user.

Copilot is being added to multiple services, most notably to Power Apps, which is going to allow us to generate data models and apps by simply describing what we want to an AI-driven chat bot. This means that we can use natural language to build the foundations of our apps rather than building everything from scratch, which ultimately is going to save us time.

We should remember that Copilot is going to be there as an assistant, not a replacement for human intelligence. We still need to build on and maintain all of the skills that we have learned throughout this book, as Copilot...