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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

Lab 14

Within this lab, we are going to create our database and create our basic entities so that we can build an app upon it in the next chapter. Within this lab, we are going to build an app that will allow us to store and assign cars to members of staff.

Let's start by creating the database first.

Activity 1: Creating the database

This is an optional step; if you already have a database within your environment, then you won't need to go through the creation steps:

  1. Log in to the Office 365 portal by navigating to portal.office.com.
  2. Click on the app launcher and select PowerApps (if it is not on the app launcher, then select All apps):
  1. From the left-hand navigation, expand the Data menu and select Entities:
  1. If the database has not been created, click the Create a database button in the center of the screen:
  1. On the create database blade, select your Currency and Language. Leave Include sample apps and data checked, and then click Create my database:

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