Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

Become a pro Power Apps maker by applying practical use cases to solve ever-evolving business challenges

Eickhel Mendoza 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2021년 01월 22일 출간

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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

▶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

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
-Chapter 1: Building pixel-perfect solutions with Canvas Power Apps
-Chapter 2: Building from data with model-driven apps
-Chapter 3: Choosing the right data source for your applications
-Chapter 4: Automating processes with Power Automate
-Chapter 5: Extending the Platform
-Chapter 6: Improving User Experience
-Chapter 7: Power Apps Everywhere
-Chapter 8: Empowering your applications with no code Artificial Intelligence
-Chapter 9: Discovering the Power Platform admin center
-Chapter 10: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
-Chapter 11: Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework

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▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Building pixel-perfect Solutions with Canvas Power Apps, starts with the best practices for building canvas apps and continues with building solutions, including coverage of data source setup.

- Chapter 2, Building from data with Model-Driven Apps, continues our journey by following a collection of recipes joined together to create an all-around help desk solution.

- Chapter 3, Choosing the right Data Source for your applications, will help you to make a sound decision when determining the data source of your applications. This chapter also explains the importance of the licensing model on this platform.

- Chapter 4, Automating Processes with Power Automate, focuses on several use cases to improve business processes using this component of the Power Platform.

- Chapter 5, Extending the Platform, builds upon the concept of enhancing the application building process by using components. We will also learn how to extend the platform by creating custom connectors.

- Chapter 6, Improving User Experience, looks at how to enrich your user interfaces to make your applications more appealing to end users. This chapter will also cover how to create a responsive application using the latest techniques available in Power Apps.

- Chapter 7, Power Apps Everywhere, explains all the possible ways to use and integrate Power Apps on many platforms, from mobile device consumption to embedding scenarios on SharePoint and Power BI, without forgetting the latest on Microsoft Teams development, including Dataverse for Teams.

- Chapter 8, Empowering Your Applications with no code Artificial Intelligence, focuses on using AI Builder solutions to improve our applications and processes by bringing artificial intelligence into the mix.

- Chapter 9, Discovering the Power Platform admin center, is about learning how to manage the Power Platform using the tools and settings available in this admin center.

- Chapter 10, Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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▶ Preface
Power Apps is a low-code platform to build applications from Microsoft. With this platform, you can create solutions to solve your business needs while integrating with other components of the Power Platform, such as Power Automate or Power BI.

Quite different from the complete documentation that exists online, you will find that this is not your regular reference book. Instead, this book deals with real-world scenarios and experiences to help you get a headstart in your Power Apps projects.

Using a curated set of chapters, you will discover different aspects of Power Apps, from building canvas apps, designing model-driven solutions, extending with custom connectors, and integrating with other platforms to moving to the pro-developer side using Power Apps Component Framework.

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저자(글) Eickhel Mendoza

Eickhel Mendoza is the Team Lead of Business Applications at Intelequia. He is in charge of all projects related to Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Web Development. His experience comes from various roles, like DNN platform development and operations, Project Management, and the latest in Microsoft Power Platform Technologies. He has contributed to significant community events like the Power Platform World Tour, Global Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Dynamics 365 Saturdays during the last years. Eickhel also coordinates several user groups with a group of like-minded developers eager to share their knowledge in different technologies. He is also a Microsoft Business Applications MVP.