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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

Input controls

So far we have looked at text-based controls to improve the appearance and functionality of our Power app. Now we will turn our attention to controls that interact with the user by enabling them to respond in certain situations, for example implementing a button that can submit a user’s name. As we will see with multiple choice and Boolean controls, we can extend the functionality of user responses to include selecting from a range of options or answering with a yes or no. Once we really start looking into formulas and components in the next two chapters, we can go into more detail about how to process user inputs. For now, we will introduce the basic controls available to us and how to apply them to our app.

Button

Buttons are one of the simplest controls that you can work with; they are designed to be a focal point for a click or a tap and are generally used to instantiate an action. The default styling on a button makes it stand out as a clickable control, as...