Creating Business Applications with Office 365: Techniques in SharePoint, PowerApps, Power BI, and More

© Jeffrey M. Rhodes 2019

J. M. RhodesCreating Business Applications with Office 365https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5331-1_2

2. Updating a SharePoint List Using PowerApps

Jeffrey M. Rhodes¹ 

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Colorado, CO, USA

 

The original version of this chapter was revised. A correction to this chapter is available at https://​doi.​org/​10.​1007/​978-1-4842-5331-1_​24

PowerApps¹ is a powerful new form tool in Office 365. It is not a direct replacement of InfoPath (which we also use in this book) as it does things differently (and often better). I particularly like that PowerApps can be created completely in the browser, are optimized for mobile devices, can connect to a multitude of data sources, and have a familiar Visual Basic-like syntax.²

In this chapter, ...