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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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Matthew Weston Matthew Weston
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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

Understanding the CDS

The CDS is a data source that is available to the Power Platform and that allows you to store data in a structure that shares a lot of similarities to a database. The data is structured in entities that use fields to hold and structure the data very much like a database table that you expect to see in something as simple as a Microsoft Access database.

The CDS enables users to share data across several different applications within Office 365 including PowerApps, Microsoft Power Automate, and Power BI. Unlike other data sources, to use the CDS, we do not need to provide specific connection information as the underlying database is automatically connected to the environment where the app exists.

The CDS allows you to build relationships between entities. Most developers within Office 365 would default to using lookup columns between SharePoint lists, whereas the CDS allows us to define and manage relationships between the different entities in the same way as we would...

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