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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

Embedding Power Apps in SharePoint pages

SharePoint pages are the tool of choice when using this platform for content management. Using content blocks, called web parts, you can build pages with text, images, videos, and dynamic content.

One of SharePoint’s content blocks is the Power Apps web part, which allows embedding a canvas app inside a page for easier access. For more information on web parts, please refer to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-web-parts-on-sharepoint-pages-336e8e92-3e2d-4298-ae01-d404bbe751e0

Getting ready

We will need an existing application to use the Power Apps web part. The same rules for executing applications apply here:

  • It needs to be shared with users to be able to run the application.
  • If a license is required to use the app, it will be enforced on the users accessing the SharePoint page.
  • The users must grant the use of any connectors inside the app.

We will use the same application designed...