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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 your model-driven app

First, we should publish the app, and then we can click Play to launch it. This will allow us to interact with the app within the browser in the same way that we can with canvas apps.

Once you have launched your app, you will be faced with your working model-driven app. This is where it becomes apparent to users that we are extremely limited in terms of what we can do with the look and feel of the app. This lack of design freedom really means that model-driven apps are better suited to back-office functions. As we have seen our app from the design perspective, we will now run the app so that we can see the user interface when it is actually being used:

  1. The first thing I am going to do is click the Run button in the top-right corner of my model-driven app designer window so that I can preview the fully working app.
  1. In Figure 16.14: The preview of my app, we can see that the fully rendered app is somewhat different from what we saw in the app designer. Each...
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