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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 7

In this lab, we are going to build on what we have already created in Power Apps by adding navigation and creating a basic form.

Activity 1: Creating the collections

Firstly, we are going to use a collection to create a way of centrally managing our navigation throughout the app. Let's learn how to create collections:

  • Begin by opening our Groceries Phone App, which we created in the previous labs:
  1. Create a new screen called Grocery:

    Figure 8.19: The new Grocery screen as see in the Tree view
  2. Now that we have created a number of different screens to navigate between, we will create a collection to store the navigation items. Click on App in the screen explorer and select the OnStart property. It will still have our formula in for setting our branding, but we will add to it:

    Figure 8.20: The OnStart property with the branding formula in the formula bar
  3. Ensure that you have a semicolon after your branding variable formula, then create a collection as follows:
ClearCollect...