Beginning PowerApps: The Non-Developers Guide to Building Business Mobile Applications

© Tim Leung 2017

Tim LeungBeginning PowerAppshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3003-9_9

9. Working with Data

Tim Leung¹ 

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Reading, UK

 

In this chapter, we’ll find out to perform data-related tasks with formula. This is an important topic because it opens many new possibilities. By accessing data with formula, we can build better search capabilities, show more pertinent information, and provide better data entry screens.

This chapter describes how to build features to improve the usability of our apps. This includes how to set default values on new records and how to show alerts in the notifications section of mobile devices. The main topics that we’ll cover in this chapter will include the following:

• How to build search screens. The auto-generated ...