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T. LeungBeginning Power Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6683-0_15

15. Retrieving Data from Portal Apps

Tim Leung1  
(1)
Reading, UK
 

The chapter covers a very powerful feature in Power Apps portals – the ability to build web pages that interact with a Dataverse data source. Because this feature is so valuable, it is probably the reason why Microsoft acquired this technology from Adxstudio.

This chapter focuses on how to use data components to build data entry and data display screens. We’ll also learn about the search capabilities of the portal and find out how to extend this to include data from custom tables. The topics that we’ll cover in this chapter will include
  • How to use the list and entity form components to display lists ...

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