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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

Enhancing the overall UI/UX

Now that we have explored examples of functionality, we want to put these to use in a sample use case. In this example, we have a simple Power Apps app that tracks the list of preferred vendors for our catering company. For this example, we want to have the following functionality:

  • Display an Admin button, but only for individuals who are considered administrators. This button will take the user to an admin screen, which we will cover shortly.
  • When new vendors are added, use conditional formatting to ensure that the email address for the contact person is in a valid format.
  • Show a URL that, when a user clicks on it, takes the user directly to the app and allows the user to edit a specific record.

Figure 8.16 provides a sample view of the current app.

Figure 8.16 – Layout of our sample app

Figure 8.16 – Layout of our sample app

Currently, this app consists of a button to allow new records to be added along with a gallery on the right...

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