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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

Building from Data with Model-Driven Apps

Model-driven apps are the data-centric siblings of canvas apps. They get their foundation from the business data model, taking an approach of placing building blocks on top of data. These blocks build up in a standard responsive layout, which allows the creation of a solution that adapts to any device.

Even though analyzing and setting up the data source is one of the main objectives of any application, this is the primary objective in model-driven apps. A complete understanding of the business process allows you to design your data model with a solid structure to support the proposed solution. The last step would be to build the app on top of this model.

This chapter will explore the model-driven world of Power Apps while building a help desk solution. Through these recipes, you will get a clear view of all the components available on this platform:

  • Exploring Dataverse
  • Configuring the environment
  • Building a...