Book description
Practical recipes that go beyond official documentation to help you create custom solutions, automate processes, and extend the platform's capabilities using Power Apps, Power Automate, Component Framework, and Dataverse for Teams
Key Features
- Improve business operations by creating impactful Power Apps solutions with real-world use cases
- Explore a variety of built-in templates to create custom apps for specific business scenarios
- Strengthen your enterprise applications with advanced techniques and proven tips using a low-code approach
Book Description
Microsoft Power Apps provides a powerful, low-code solution for application development, empowering non-technical users to create robust, practical solutions in no time. This book will help you create a wide range of custom business solutions using the ease of development that Power Apps provides by overcoming many of the challenges faced in business application development.
You'll start by getting to grips with Power Apps Studio and finding out how canvas apps help you build pixel-perfect applications as per business needs. The book then covers the practicalities involved in designing model-driven apps and teaches you how to automate business processes using Power Automate. You'll also discover how to improve user experience (UX) to make applications more appealing. As you advance, you'll learn how to strengthen your business apps by using AI Builder's artificial intelligence capabilities. You'll also explore advanced troubleshooting techniques to find creative ways to overcome various challenges in your Power Apps solutions. The book concludes with Power Apps Component Framework to help you further improve the existing applications' capabilities.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained experience in developing applications using the Power Apps platform and its features.
What you will learn
- Build pixel-perfect solutions with canvas apps
- Design model-driven solutions using various features of Microsoft Dataverse
- Automate business processes such as triggered events, status change notifications, and approval systems with Power Automate
- Implement AI Builder's intelligent capabilities in your solutions
- Improve the UX of business apps to make them more appealing
- Find out how to extend Microsoft Teams using Power Apps
- Extend your business applications' capabilities using Power Apps Component Framework
Who this book is for
This book is for citizen developers and business users looking to build custom applications as per their organizational needs without depending on professional developers. Traditional app developers will also find this book useful by discovering how to build applications in a rapid application development environment with increased productivity and speed. The book is recommended for Power Apps beginners who have taken a couple of online tutorials but are struggling to implement or create real-world solutions. Basic knowledge of Power Apps is necessary to get the best out of this cookbook.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Why subscribe?
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewer
- Packt is searching for authors like you
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Building pixel-perfect solutions with Canvas Power Apps
- Chapter 2: Building from data with model-driven apps
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Chapter 3: Choosing the right data source for your applications
- Technical requirements
- Data sources and the licensing model
- Reducing your application complexity by using Azure SQL database views
- Choosing the right data source – real-world tests
- Integrating on-premises data with the data source flexibility of canvas apps
- Improving application speed and responsiveness by using static data
- Consuming external data by using Dataflows
- Chapter 4: Automating processes with Power Automate
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Chapter 5: Extending the Platform
- Technical requirements
- User interface guidelines
- Setting up your first canvas Power Apps component
- Building a floating action button component
- Creating a vertical navigation component
- Developing template fields using components
- Using the Power Apps component library
- Expanding communications with custom connectors
- Chapter 6: Improving User Experience
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Chapter 7: Power Apps Everywhere
- Technical requirements
- Discovering Power Apps Mobile and the Windows desktop player
- Leveraging modern browsers for Power Apps
- Improving SharePoint document libraries with Power Apps
- Embedding Power Apps in SharePoint pages
- Making Power BI reports interactive with embedded Power Apps
- Working with Power Apps in Microsoft Teams channels
- Automating the integration of Power Apps inside Teams
- Building apps with Dataverse for Teams
- Chapter 8: Empowering your applications with no code Artificial Intelligence
- Chapter 9: Discovering the Power Platform admin center
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Chapter 10: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
- Technical requirements
- Sharing OneDrive data between tenants
- Playing with vectors – SVGs in canvas apps
- Transferring SharePoint List Power Apps from one site to another
- Troubleshooting using the Power Apps canvas Monitor
- Extending screen real estate using the canvas control
- Handling image resources in components
- Changing Azure SQL Server connections in Power Apps with ease
- Renaming files in SharePoint document libraries
- Chapter 11: Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2021
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781800569553
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