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T. LeungBeginning Power Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6683-0_17

17. Storing and Retrieving Files

Tim Leung1  
(1)
Reading, UK
 

A common requirement in many business apps is the ability to store and to retrieve files. A typical use case is to enable the storage of files that could include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF documents, images, and more.

There are several ways to integrate file handling and storage capabilities into an app. In this chapter, we’ll study this topic in greater detail and find out how to store documents using all the common data sources. The topics that we’ll cover will include
  • How to set up a data source. We’ll look at how to set up SharePoint, Dataverse, and SQL Server data sources to store files. ...

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