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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 2e - Second Edition

By : Eickhel Mendoza
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Book Image

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 2e - Second Edition

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By: Eickhel Mendoza

Overview of this book

Power Apps is a low-code platform owned by Microsoft. With this platform, you can create solutions to solve your business needs while integrating with other components of the Power Platform, such as Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power BI, and others. This book is a handy solution guide to meet many organizational requirements. Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, Second Edition, takes a pragmatic approach where every business scenario is presented in a quick, practical, and action-oriented recipe. You will be able to use these instant solutions in your development environment and customize your business apps to meet challenging business needs. This will help you handle real-world scenarios and experiences to give you a head start in your Power Apps projects. You will discover various aspects of Power Apps, from building canvas apps, designing model-driven solutions, extending apps with custom connectors, and integrating apps with other platforms, to the pro-developer side including Power Apps Component Framework and creating website experiences for external users with Power Pages. By the end of this Microsoft Power Apps book, you will have gained experience in developing applications using the Power Apps platform and all its features.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Building Pixel-Perfect Solutions with Canvas Apps

Power Apps is the platform of choice for building business solutions using a low-code method. This approach enables the rise of the citizen developer, a being inside every organization who is keen on learning technology, which also brings the expertise of the business process to which this person belongs.

Canvas apps allow the creation of pixel-perfect implementations of user interfaces. As the name suggests, they bring a variety of tools to build any imaginable design into your applications, allowing you to design and develop apps of any type, whether a critical business system or a simple tracking application.

During this chapter, we will discover how to create a set of applications that will give you an insight into different styles when building canvas applications: standalone and embedded. We will also learn how to set up different types of data sources for our applications.

This chapter consists of the following recipes:

  • Discovering best practices when building canvas apps
  • Creating an incident tracking solution – setting up the data source
  • Creating an incident tracking solution – building the user interface
  • Embedding an expense tracking list with SharePoint list Power Apps
  • Creating a canvas app from existing data