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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

Managing Power Platform environments

Environments are containers of Power Platform components. They include all your solution components, such as applications, flows, and data. They also serve as a medium to isolate these components, whether for security reasons or to have independent development environments.

There are different types of environments. Each serves a particular functionality:

  • Production: This environment is the one your end users will use when executing your solutions.
  • Sandbox: This type of environment is a testing ground for your solutions. You can reset it to start from scratch.
  • Trial: You can use these environments for rapid feature testing as they get deleted after 30 days. There is also a subscription-based type focused on enterprise delivery. More info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-platform/admin/trial-environments
  • Developer: This type of environment gets created when a user of the organization applies for the Power...