Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook: Apply low-code recipes to solve everyday business challenges and become a Power Apps pro, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Mendoza, Eickhel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 180323802X ISBN 13: 9781803238029

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Practical recipes and real-world examples to help you create custom solutions and automate processes. Use Power Apps combined with Power Automate, Dataverse, the Component Framework, and Power Pages to implement RPA technologies and more.

Key Features

• Enhanced with added content on Power Pages, robotic process automation, map capabilities for canvas apps, solutions using mixed reality, and much more
• 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

Power Apps is a low-code platform owned by Microsoft. With this platform, you can create solutions to solve your business needs while integrating with other components of the Power Platform, such as Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power BI, and others. This book is a handy solution guide to meet many organizational requirements.

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, Second Edition, takes a pragmatic approach where every business scenario is presented in a quick, practical, and action-oriented recipe. You will be able to use these instant solutions in your development environment and customize your business apps to meet challenging business needs. This will help you handle real-world scenarios and experiences to give you a head start in your Power Apps projects. You will discover various aspects of Power Apps, from building canvas apps, designing model-driven solutions, extending apps with custom connectors, and integrating apps with other platforms, to the pro-developer side including Power Apps Component Framework and creating website experiences for external users with Power Pages.

By the end of this Microsoft Power Apps book, you will have gained experience in developing applications using the Power Apps platform and all its features.

What you will learn

• Learn to integrate and test 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 RPA technologies with Power Automate
• Extend your platform using maps and mixed reality
• Implement AI Builder's intelligent capabilities in your solutions
• Extend your business applications' capabilities using Power Apps Component Framework
• Create website experiences for users beyond the organization with Microsoft Power Pages

Who this book is for

This book is targeted at information workers and citizen developers wanting to develop custom applications for their organizations or the projects they are undertaking. Traditional app developers will also find this book useful by discovering how to use a rapid application development environment with increased productivity and speed. Readers are expected to have prior exposure to the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem.

Table of Contents

1. Building Pixel-Perfect Solutions with Canvas Apps
2. Building from Data with Model-Driven Apps
3. Choosing the Right Data Source for Your Applications
4. Automating Processes with Power Automate
5. Extending the Platform
6. Improving User Experience
7. Power Apps Everywhere
8. Empowering Your Applications with No Code Artificial Intelligence
9. Discovering the Power Platform Admin Center
10. Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting
11. Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework
12. Reaching Beyond the Organization with Power Pages

About this title

About the Author

Eickhel Mendoza is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP with many years of experience in project management, Microsoft Azure development, and Microsoft Power Platform technologies.

He is a team lead of the Business Apps department and oversees all Microsoft 365 and Power Platform projects. He has contributed to significant community events such as the Power Platform World Tour, Global Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Dynamics 365 Saturdays.

He coordinates the TenerifeDev and Power Platform Canarias user groups with a group of like-minded developers eager to share their knowledge in different technologies. Eickhel is also a member of the organizing committee of the Business Applications Summit Spain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 180323802X
• ISBN 13: 9781803238029
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 414