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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

Integrating canvas apps inside model-driven apps

One of the best features present in canvas apps is the ability to access multiple external connectors from the same app. We can use this strength by embedding a canvas app as a component.

These are some scenarios in which this can be very helpful:

  • A canvas application that is already in use by the organization and we want to integrate into our model-driven solution.
  • A canvas app that connects to a legacy system using the on-premises data gateway.
  • An employee tracking system that gives us information about which of our customer locations our support staff is working at any given moment. This data could be helpful to see whether we already have someone from support at the customer’s location when a new ticket arrives.

Now let’s see how we can integrate a canvas into our model-driven solution.

How to do it…

  1. From the solution, expand the Project table and click on Forms...