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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

Data sources and the licensing model

We need to understand the unique differentiator that makes us need a license: whether a connector is labeled premium or not. This tag activates the end-users license requirement when using the app you created, even if you own a license to build it.

The current licensing model is reminiscent of the SQL Server Client Access Licenses (CALs), in which every user accessing the server requires a pass. It is the same for the Power Platform. You add capacity to your environments to allow unlicensed users to access your app.

The platform recognizes which apps are built with premium connectors to access data or services. When you access the details of your apps or flows, you will see a License designation or Plan that will inform you about this:

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Figure 3.1: License designation in apps and cloud flows

These changes came on October 1st, 2019, when many apps were already using premium connectors, mostly Azure services, which were initially...