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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

Wireframes

Wireframes are an awesome tool for being able to bring your user journey to life, but also for communicating your thinking to your end users. We’ve all heard the saying “A picture paints a thousand words,” and wireframes do exactly that. They allow you to start planning out what screens you will need to achieve the goals defined in your user experience mapping. But now we can delve a little bit deeper and start thinking about how we’re going to lay out the screens.

There are tools out there that allow you to develop wireframes, for example, Figma (figma.com), where Power Apps can read the wireframe and construct the app for you. Alternatively, I commonly use something as simple as PowerPoint, with several rectangles on a slide to articulate where I see various controls being:

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Figure 23.3: Wireframe for app layout

If I am planning a canvas app, then I will go as deep as what controls I want and where, and doing it in a software...