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Microsoft Power Pages in Action

Microsoft Power Pages in Action

By : Hussona, Danilo Capuano
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Microsoft Power Pages in Action

Microsoft Power Pages in Action

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By: Hussona, Danilo Capuano

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power Apps Pages in Action is a comprehensive beginner's guide for effortlessly building and customizing functional-rich web apps. Packed with real-world examples, it offers a practical understanding of the Power Pages environment. You’ll understand web pages by creating data tables and forms, progress to adding web pages, and delve into advanced techniques for seamlessly integrating web apps. Now, you’ll learn how to create responsive web pages, automate web apps, and use ChatGPT-assisted coding with code snippets for common requirements or needs. As you progress, you'll be guided on crafting portals and websites, encompassing the utilization of various functionalities and layouts. Progressively, you’ll discover how to seamlessly integrate them into your web pages across multiple Microsoft technologies, including Dataverse and Power Automate. Towards the end, you'll also learn how to implement cloud flows to provide access to external services and use cloud flows to provide user experiences running processes off the page. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid understanding of Power Pages and be able to create web applications tailored to your unique needs.
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Leveraging jQuery AJAX in Power Pages

jQuery’s AJAX capabilities allow Sarah to perform asynchronous HTTP requests that can be leveraged in Power Pages to create dynamic, responsive applications. Low-code developers like Sarah are going to be asked to include controls such as charts, sliders, and carousels, so gaining some basic skills to implement AJAX controls will be useful.

AJAX introduction

A short introduction to AJAX can be found at https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ajax-introduction/.

Let’s take a look at a simple example of how AJAX can be implemented. Consider a situation where Sarah has a form and she wants to fill in a dropdown based on the user’s selection in another dropdown. Sarah can use jQuery’s AJAX method to get the data from the server and fill the dropdown without reloading the page:

$("#firstDropdown").change(function() {
    var selectedValue = $(this).val();
    $.ajax({
&...

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