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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

Renaming files in SharePoint document libraries

SharePoint is the ideal choice for document classification systems. This platform provides a standard set of metadata properties while allowing us to create custom properties to improve data categorization.

For example, let’s take a document library to hold company contracts. We can enhance this library by adding extra columns such as the contractor’s name, the expiration date, and the department that requested this contract. Besides using this information for ordering and classification, you can also act on this data:

  • Build a Power Automate cloud flow that sends a Teams notification to a department channel warning them about an expiring contract.
  • Design dashboards based on this data to understand the number of contracts per contractor or which department requests more contracts.
  • Create a Power App to gather data while on the go. This app can even collect signatures for these contracts.
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