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Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070645
Pages 702 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Matthew Weston Matthew Weston
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Elisa Bárcena Martín Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface 1. Introducing Power Apps 2. Creating Your First Canvas Power App 3. Creating Apps in SharePoint 4. Publishing and Leveraging in Power Apps 5. Exploring Controls 6. Exploring Formulas 7. Exploring Reusable Controls 8. Working with Data 9. Introducing Connectors 10. Using GPS in Power Apps 11. Working with Images and Barcodes 12. Securing Your Power Apps 13. Working Offline 14. Using Power Automate with Power Apps 15. Using Azure with Power Apps 16. Visualizing Data 17. Introducing Artificial Intelligence 18. Introducing Microsoft Dataverse 19. Introducing Model-Driven Apps 20. Creating Model-Driven Apps 21. Exploring Environments and Data Policies 22. Introducing the Future of Power Apps 23. Good Practices for Creating Power Apps 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index
Appendix

Using forms

Searching form in the Insert menu offers the option to Edit form and Display form. This provides us with a native way to quickly create, view, and edit forms so that we can modify data from our data source. The setup of a form is very similar to that of a gallery or a data table, whereby we put the control on the page and select the data source.

When a form is placed on the canvas and connected to a data source that has an understanding of a user interface, for example, SharePoint, the form will automatically render the key fields, displaying both a label as well as a control, which will allow the user to change the data. These groupings of controls within the form are called data cards.

If we are connecting our form to a collection, then we need to build the form manually using custom data cards. This is a useful example to understand as you can add custom data cards to your forms even if you’ve connected them to an external data source, which you may want to use to...

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