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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 2e - Second Edition

By : Eickhel Mendoza
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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

Testing the component on a canvas app

The final step of our deployment process is to import the PCF component to a canvas app and verify the result. We will do this by creating an app from scratch.

How to do it…

  1. Go to the Power Apps maker portal, https://make.powerapps.com/, and on the home page, click on Blank app and then click on Create in the Blank canvas app section. On the opening dialog, enter Font Awesome Test for App name, keep Tablet as Format, and click on Create.
  2. Once the Power Apps Studio opens, from the Insert panel on the left, click on Get more components at the bottom.
  3. On the pane that opens on the right, look for the Code tab at the top and select it. From the list of elements to import, you should see FontAwesomeComponent in the list, as seen in the following screenshot:
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    Figure 11.5: FontAwesomeComponent in the Code Component section

    Select it and click on Import.

  1. From the Insert panel on...