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Learn Microsoft PowerApps

Learn Microsoft PowerApps

By : Matthew Weston
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Learn Microsoft PowerApps

Learn Microsoft PowerApps

2.6 (12)
By: Matthew Weston

Overview of this book

Microsoft PowerApps provides a modern approach to building business applications for mobile, tablet, and browser. Learn Microsoft PowerApps will guide you in creating powerful and productive apps that will add value to your organization by helping you transform old and inefficient processes and workflows. Starting with an introduction to PowerApps, this book will help you set up and configure your first application. You’ll explore a variety of built-in templates and understand the key difference between types of applications such as canvas and model-driven apps, which are used to create apps for specific business scenarios. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to generate and integrate apps directly with SharePoint, and gain an understanding of PowerApps key components such as connectors and formulas. As you advance, you’ll be able to use various controls and data sources, including technologies such as GPS, and combine them to create an iterative app. Finally, the book will help you understand how PowerApps can use several Microsoft Power Automate and Azure functionalities to improve your applications. By the end of this PowerApps book, you’ll be ready to confidently develop lightweight business applications with minimal code.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with PowerApps
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Section 2: Developing Your PowerApp
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Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp
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Section 4: Working with Model-Driven Apps
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Section 5: Governing PowerApps

Using forms

Forms provide us with a native way to quickly create, view, and edit forms so that we can modify the data within our data source. The setup of a form is very similar to that of a gallery or a data table, whereby we put the control on the page and select the data source. The form will automatically render the fields on the canvas for you. The main difference, however, is that forms can only be connected to an external data source; for example, a list within SharePoint.

When a form is placed on the canvas and connected to a data source, it will automatically render the key fields. The default state of the form is usually Edit, as shown in the following screenshot, which means that it will display the values of a selected item:

Figure 7.9: A rendered form, as displayed in the app that was generated from SharePoint

The form control is intelligent enough to understand the data type of the field and render the form controls. For example, if the data type is complex, such as from...

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