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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

Building a file processing automation for SharePoint document libraries

Improving business activities, especially recurring ones, is a top priority in every organization. The tedious work of repeating a set of actions for a business process can be prone to errors because the personnel tends to replicate actions without validation.

Power Automate builds upon this need to help organizations automate their tasks so people can focus on the business.

In this recipe, we will automate a business process using a SharePoint document library that handles the quotes of a given company. Microsoft Word will generate these quotes with defined metadata to help classify their contents.

Users can manually execute a cloud flow when a quote is complete, which converts the document into a PDF file with the same metadata as the original file. It also notifies the Finance team if the quote is over $100,000 in their currency.

Getting ready

When using SharePoint, as far as licensing goes...