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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

In this chapter, we looked at the version history and what that means for our Power App. We identified that we can happily work on our app in the draft stages without users being able to see our changes. Once the app has been published, it will be marked as Live and will be available for our users to start using. Should the worst-case scenario be realized and we have an error in our app, we can easily revert to a previous version by selecting Restore. The restored app will then become a new version, but won't be visible to our users until we click Publish.

We also looked at the key ways in which our users can exploit the functionality that's created using Power Apps. First, we focused on SharePoint, which uses a web part within the modern experience to embed the Power App onto the page. This is done by providing the web part with the app web link or ID, which are obtained from the app’s Details screen. This experience may be due to the web part still being in...