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Learn Microsoft Power Apps

You're reading from   Learn Microsoft Power Apps The definitive handbook for building solutions with Power Apps to solve your business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070645
Length 702 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Elisa Bárcena Martín Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Matthew Weston Matthew Weston
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Power Apps FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Canvas Power App 3. Creating Apps in SharePoint 4. Publishing and Leveraging in Power Apps 5. Exploring Controls 6. Exploring Formulas 7. Exploring Reusable Controls 8. Working with Data 9. Introducing Connectors 10. Using GPS in Power Apps 11. Working with Images and Barcodes 12. Securing Your Power Apps 13. Working Offline 14. Using Power Automate with Power Apps 15. Using Azure with Power Apps 16. Visualizing Data 17. Introducing Artificial Intelligence 18. Introducing Microsoft Dataverse 19. Introducing Model-Driven Apps 20. Creating Model-Driven Apps 21. Exploring Environments and Data Policies 22. Introducing the Future of Power Apps 23. Good Practices for Creating Power Apps 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index
Appendix

The app creation process

In order to create an app from SharePoint, we first of all need to create the data structure. The process we are about to follow applies to SharePoint lists, therefore we must begin by creating our basic data structure.

Preparing your list within SharePoint

This is the first time that we will look at creating an app based on data that we have already created and, for that, we will need to create a list within SharePoint. As previously mentioned, if the list can be viewed in the modern user interface, then you can access the Power Apps menu and customize the form.

We need to start building our lists to hold our data. These could either be single lists or lists that use lookup columns to reference from other lists on our SharePoint site. We can create columns using all of the SharePoint data types; however, there are some limitations that you should be aware of. The more complex fields such as calculated columns and the Managed Metadata columns...

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