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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

Lab 5

In this lab, we are going to expand on the app that we have been building through Lab 1 and Lab 2 of the previous chapters, and we are now going to start fleshing it out with some basic functionality, which will include customizing the interface to the person who has logged in and storing the branding information centrally, and adding some additional functionality to our SharePoint List Form app, to allow our users to launch the app from SharePoint.

Activity 1 – Creating a branding variable

Branding is one of those key elements that we want to be consistent across our app, so we will create a screen to act as branding configuration and then store the values in a variable for us to use throughout our app:

  1. Open the Groceries Phone App that we created in Lab 1.
  2. Open the New Screen menu.
  3. From the New Screen option, select Blank.
Graphical user interface  Description automatically generated

Figure 6.20: Blank Screen option from the Insert menu

  1. Rename this screen to be called Branding...