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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 6

In this lab, we are going to expand on the app that we have been building since Lab 1 by creating a component that we are going to use multiple times through our app. We are going to create a component that will allow us to provide feedback to our users as a dialog box:

  1. Open the Groceries Phone App that we created in Lab 1.
  2. From the Tree view on the left side of the screen, select Components.
  3. Click + New component.
  4. Rename your component Dialogue Box.

    Figure 7.21: Components branch of the Tree view
  5. We are going to make our component default to the height and width of the app itself. So, firstly, set the width with the formula App.DesignWidth, and the height with the formula App.DesignHeight.

    Figure 7.22: Adjusting the height of the component
  6. Create an input property by clicking on + New custom property on the right side of the screen.
  7. Enter the following configuration for the property:

    1. Display name: Message title
    2. Name: MessageTitle
    3. Description: The title of the message we are...