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Power Apps Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

You're reading from   Power Apps Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices A step-by-step practical guide to developing robust Power Apps solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080078
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Weinzapfel Tim Weinzapfel
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Andrea Pinillos Andrea Pinillos
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Overall Project Planning
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Requirements and Project Planning FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Solutions 4. Chapter 3: Power Platform Environments 5. Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Tool – Navigating Canvas Apps, Power Pages, and Model-Driven Apps 6. Chapter 5: Data Connections 7. Part 2: Advanced Power App Techniques
8. Chapter 6: Variables, Collections, and Data Filtering 9. Chapter 7: Canvas App Formulas 10. Chapter 8: Conditional Formatting and URL Deep Linking 11. Part 3: Power Platform and Other Integrations
12. Chapter 9: Integration with Power Automate/Teams/Outlook 13. Chapter 10: Integration with Power BI 14. Chapter 11: Integrating Power Apps with SharePoint 15. Chapter 12: Integration with Power Virtual Agents/Copilot 16. Part 4: Governance, Security, and Deployment
17. Chapter 13: Governance, Security, and Application Life Cycle Management 18. Chapter 14: Error Handling 19. Chapter 15: Registering a Power App in Azure 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we covered how to apply conditional formatting to various elements within a Power Apps app. We showed how this can improve the overall functionality of your app.

We then discussed the concept of URL deep linking and how this can be used to direct users to specific areas within your app. First, we covered the overall concept of URL parameters. We then showed how URL parameters can be used to affect the app itself.

Lastly, we combined both areas into a single use case. We showed how conditional formatting can be used to provide two key functionalities for our app. The first one was displaying an Admin button, but only for individuals designated as administrators. The second was to use conditional formatting to provide immediate feedback to the user on the validity of an email address format. We then showed how a URL link could be created to direct a user to a specific record that would be automatically opened to the edit screen, thus avoiding the user having...

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