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PowerApps is a powerful new form tool in Office 365. It is not a direct replacement of InfoPath (which we also use in this book) as it does things differently (and often better). I particularly like that PowerApps can be created completely in the browser, are optimized for mobile devices, can connect to a multitude of data sources, and have a familiar Visual Basic-like syntax.
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I found Shane Young of BoldZebras’ YouTube channel helpful for learning about PowerApps: www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_OGRP8BYvtGB8eZdPG6Ng.
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For example, by using the & to concatenate values. I’m a big Visual Basic fan and actually wrote a previous book called VBTrain.Net: Creating Computer and Web Based Training with Visual Basic .NET.
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We will dig deep into Power BI in later chapters. Another use of SharePoint would be to have a “New Tickets” view that could be sorted by date and time. Technicians could use to determine who has been waiting longest and call that person next. We hope to build this into the PowerApps technician application as well.
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Be sure to save immediately as automatic saving does not kick in until you save the application the first time.
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Rhodes, J.M. (2019). Updating a SharePoint List Using PowerApps. In: Creating Business Applications with Office 365. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5331-1_2
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