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Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies
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Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies

by Jack A. Hyman
December 2024
Beginner
464 pages
11h 41m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 5

Personalizing and Creating Canvas Apps in Power Apps

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Determining what you want your canvas app to do

Bullet Designing a basic canvas app

Bullet Configuring the screens and controls of a canvas app

Bullet Integrating navigation into a canvas app

Bullet Building a sample app

The blank canvas is always intimidating for the artist. Although the artist’s ideas can run wild, eventually, that artist pulls together their concept and designs a beautiful work of art. That same mentality applies to creating canvas-based apps in Power Apps. Each canvas page provides you with a blank slate that you can craft by using controls and data components. When you, as the developer, have all the controls and components in place, you then have to logically use the low-code tools available to you. In this chapter, you can explore how to design and build a simple canvas app from start to finish.

Building the Canvas App Foundation

Canvas apps are one of two core app options available to users of Microsoft ...

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