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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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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Developing template fields using components

When designing applications, any help is always welcomed. That’s why application development platforms continuously evolve to find more ways to help developers build great solutions.

As the user interface becomes as important as the expected functionality, we need to find more ways to achieve consistency across the app. This recipe will build a set of components to maintain the same style for controls used in data representation and gathering.

In the following screenshot, the fields and their labels come from a component, and with the use of custom properties, you can configure the behavior and even change the theme:

Figure 5.18: Template field components

How to do it...

  1. Go to the Power Apps maker portal, https://make.powerapps.com, and from the left pane, select Apps, and click on New app | Canvas from the toolbar. We will create this example based on the Phone layout, so select this option.
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