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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

You're reading from Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook A complete guide to Microsoft Office 365 apps including SharePoint, Power Platform, Copilot and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243177

Length 640 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Office 365

Concepts

Information Management

Authors (4):

Scott Brewster

Gaurav Mahajan

Sudeep Ghatak

Nate Chamberlain

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Overview of Microsoft 365

2. Introduction to SharePoint Online FREE CHAPTER

3. Modern Sites in SharePoint Online

4. Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Online

5. Document Management in SharePoint Online

6. OneDrive

7. Microsoft Teams

8. Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)

9. Creating Power Apps

10. Applying Power Apps

11. Power BI

12. Overview of Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

14. Index

Connecting to data sources

Power Apps lets you build business applications that use data from line-of-business applications. Using Power Apps, you can build apps that work with local as well as connected data sources.

Connected data sources are external to Power Apps such as Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, OneDrive for Business, Dropbox, and SQL Server.

Local data sources save the data in data tables within Power Apps. Collections are one such data source that gets stored within the Power App when the Power App is saved and published.

We will see how you can connect to data sources in this recipe.

Getting ready

You need Power Apps plan included in your Microsoft 365 subscription in order to build a Power App. Download the Cars.xlsx file from Chapter 14 folder in the GitHub repository of this book here https://m365book.page.link/github and save the file in your OneDrive for Business.

How to do it ...

To connect to a data source, do the following steps:

Open the Power Apps designer...

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Authors (4)

Mahajan

Mahajan

Ajay Mahajan is a distinguished member of technical staff (DMTS) at Wipro Technologies and currently is in the role of chief technologist of the retail vertical. In his current role, he helps customers adopt cloud-native and digital architecture for next-generation retail applications. He worked with retail and banking clients in Europe and the USA on large-scale mission-critical systems. He has seen the evolution of enterprise Java from the Netscape Application Server to servlets/JSP, JEE, Spring, and now the cloud and microservices during the course of 19 years of working on Java platform.

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Scott Brewster

Scott Brewster

Scott Brewster is a Microsoft 365 Solutions Architect. He has supported numerous government clients focusing on SharePoint and Microsoft 365 since 2008. His focus is on security, administration, migration, governance, and training. Scott has been speaking at conferences and user groups since 2010 and runs the SharePoint User Group of DC.

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Sudeep Ghatak

Sudeep Ghatak

Sudeep Ghatak is a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications and a frequent contributor to the Power Automate Community forum. He works as a Principal Architect in Christchurch, New Zealand and loves designing solutions based on Office 365 and the Azure platform. He is a certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) and holds a postgraduate degree in instrumentation engineering. He is an active member of the Microsoft community and often seen speaking at user groups and conferences in New Zealand.

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Nate Chamberlain

Nate Chamberlain

Nate Chamberlain, a Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert and Microsoft MVP in Office apps and services since 2019, has over 5 years of experience in helping organizations deploy and maximize their usage of Office 365 apps and services. His work has included administrative and analyst roles in the higher education, healthcare, corporate, and finance sectors. Nate is the author of several other books, including an MS-101 exam guide, an MS-500 exam guide, and a handful of smaller publications on SharePoint, OneNote, and leading advocate groups. Nate speaks at user groups and conferences both in person and virtually throughout the year, and blog and tweets regularly as chambernate.

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