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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

Creating and interacting with collections

Collections are one of the most common methods for storing data locally within your Power App, and once you start developing, you will find that they are extremely useful in a number of different ways. They can be built dynamically while you're running your app, as well as when your app loads. This means you could use it to retrieve data from a data source and store it locally, in memory, so that it can be manipulated before being written back. In this chapter, we are going to use collections to build data that we can then interact with using our output controls, galleries, and tables.

A collection, in its simplest form, can be compared to a table, where you have a number of rows of data with each attribute being expressed as a column. Collections can store arrays of data within them, so they're slightly more complex than just a simple data table, but the premise is the same.

Filling collections

When you're filling in a collection...