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Learn Microsoft PowerApps

You're reading from   Learn Microsoft PowerApps Build customized business applications without writing any code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789805826
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with PowerApps FREE CHAPTER
2. Introducing PowerApps 3. Creating Your First Canvas PowerApp 4. Creating Apps from SharePoint 5. Publishing and Leveraging PowerApps 6. Section 2: Developing Your PowerApp
7. Exploring Controls 8. Exploring Formulas 9. Working with Data 10. Introducing Connectors 11. Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp
12. Using GPS in PowerApps 13. Working with Images and Barcodes 14. Securing Your PowerApps 15. Working Offline 16. Using Power Automate with PowerApps 17. Using Azure with PowerApps 18. Section 4: Working with Model-Driven Apps
19. Introducing Model-Driven Apps 20. Creating Model-Driven Apps 21. Section 5: Governing PowerApps
22. Exploring Environments within Our Tenancy 23. Assessments 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Power Automate to process data

Power Automate can be used to perform the heavy processing that you wouldn't necessarily want to do within PowerApps. PowerApps needs to be lightweight and responsive to the end user, so you will need to pass data to Flow. You may also need to use Flow to perform actions to get data, such as calling REST APIs, which is something you can't do within PowerApps.

There are some key scenarios where Flow steps up to allow us to do some advanced processing with PowerApps. One of those key scenarios is the ability to handle files – being able to create, update, copy, and move files – depending on where we want our data to reside. A key use case is being able to take a picture that has been captured by PowerApps and save it within SharePoint, which requires some additional processing by Microsoft Power Automate. We can't just do this using the Create file action within the SharePoint connector since the data isn't stored correctly...

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