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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
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Chapter 6

Building Data Solutions with Model-Driven Apps

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Knowing when model-driven apps are the way to go

Bullet Working with the key components to build a model-driven app

Bullet Setting up your app’s interface by using forms

Bullet Designing views to help the user search the app’s data

Microsoft Power Apps simplifies interface design for model-driven applications (apps) so that you can focus instead on the data these apps handle. Instead of spending time creating screens (as you do with canvas apps; flip back to Chapter 5), your venture into data modeling ensures that every piece of data stored in your Dataverse tables has value. This chapter shows how to plan and build a basic model-driven app, focusing on using Dataverse forms, views, and basic application security.

Exploring Model-Driven Apps from a High-Level

Model-driven apps are entirely component-focused, meaning the user has limited control over the app’s layout. The components selected by the user determine the app’s structure, but instead of manually placing each component on a canvas, Microsoft defines the application’s ...

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