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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

Creating a modular solution with Power Automate

Power Automate is an excellent tool for automating repetitive tasks to solve business needs with a great set of features. For example, you might have built a great solution using a cloud flow that takes care of several tasks with just one click.

Let’s imagine you have an instant cloud flow used by the marketing department that takes care of multiple activities using an email address as input. It can:

  • Send a pre-built email to that address
  • Save a logging record to a table in Dataverse
  • Send a notification to the marketing team in Microsoft Teams, letting them know that an email activity is complete

What would happen if another process in your company needs the same activities already created in your flow? One solution would be to recreate the same actions in a new flow, but what about maintenance? If, later on, you need to change something, you would need to make the change twice.

In this...