1. PowerApps for SharePoint Users
What you need to know

2. Wes Preston – MVP, Consultant
@idubbs
idubbs.com/blog
trecstone.com

3. Abstract
Have you been a user of SharePoint Designer? InfoPath? Access Services? How are you building business solutions today? Microsoft PowerApps is the successor to InfoPath and targets the business user and power user gaps left between SharePoint’s out of the box capabilities and custom development. SharePoint users need to understand how Microsoft PowerApps adds business value by extending SharePoint: from building mobile apps, to custom forms, to powerful business solutions. While PowerApps and SharePoint integration is relatively new, it is rapidly changing and is a tool critical for SharePoint users to understand.

4. Objective
Want you to walk away knowing where PowerApps will fit in your SharePoint environment Not going to get into details on how things work or steps for building PowerApps

5. Agenda
What is PowerApps
Scenarios
Feature Review

6. What Is PowerApps?
Part of the Business Platform … the ‘Power Suite’ (?)
Forms and application platform
NOT exclusively for SharePoint

7. Connectors and Gateways
Microsoft Inspire
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Dynamics 365
Office 365
Flow
PowerApps
Power BI
Common Data Service
Pro dev extensibility
Connectors and Gateways
The business application platform includes 3 primary solutions which allow citizen developers the opportunity to Measure, Act, and Automate line of business solutions where their data is located.
PowerApps is the SaaS solution that allows the power users to create apps and customize forms without the need to write a single line of code.
Microsoft Flow gives us a solutions for Business Process Automation targeted at Business users
Three integrated clouds – Office 365, Azure and Dynamics 365 – tied together with PowerApps, Flow and CDS give us a huge advantage over competitors
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PowerApps Advantages
Part of the cloud deployment approach – constant updates
Part of a family of tools (Flow and PowerBI) that add automation and visualization
100+ connectors
Modern look and feel
Very mobile friendly
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9. Design and usage intended for end users
If you were comfortable with Excel and Access formulas, you’ll be right at home with PowerApps formulas
Literally seconds to tweak layout, fields, and deploy

10. PowerApps Web Portal Available online only
Where you manage apps, connections, etc.
This is where you start… after you log in.
The site has great documentation to get started… Click on ‘Learn’

11. PowerApps Studio
Windows or Web

12. PowerApps Mobile Client
Apps available on iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile
Individual PowerApps can be pinned to the home page
Links from SharePoint Mobile App

13. Why should SharePoint users care about PowerApps?

14. Use Cases Replace and customize default SharePoint forms
Build apps on SharePoint data
Take your data mobile
Replace SharePoint ‘apps’ and views

15. Power Users and Citizen Developers
The gap between OOB and custom solutions
SharePoint Designer
Visual page/form designer, conditional formatting, etc.
Workflows
InfoPath
Forms creation
Dynamic, business logic
Capable of more complex customization
Access Services
JSLink and Client Side Rendering
Didn’t get a lot of traction
Code – Tipping towards development
SharePoint Designer:
2013 is last release
still works with 2016
still used for some workflows
InfoPath:
2013 client and forms services are last release
Supported for a while 2026?

16. Demo: Embedded Forms

17. Embedded in SharePoint
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Embedded in SharePoint
Smooth transition between platforms
In SharePoint
In PowerApps
We’ll show this during the demo…
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18. Try Again… Deactivate or delete the embedded forms
Settings -> Form Settings
In PowerApps – Roll back to a previous version of forms

19. Demo: Build Apps on SharePoint Data
Wizard currently defaults to phone layout – take your data mobile

20. Digital Transformation
Rethink and rebuild: InfoPath -> PowerApps
SharePoint pages and views -> PowerApps
Embedded PowerBI
Microsoft Flow provides ‘actions’
Consider talking about:
Web-based configuration
SharePoint Designer
Custom development

21. Digital Transformation
SharePoint solutions:
Multiple pages and views
Potential customizations (JS Link, code)
User-targeted functionality

22. Feature Review Embedded forms (coming REALLY soon) Web part (coming)
Rules
Oh yea, Microsoft Flow

23. Notes: Sharing NOT public-facing - Only tenant users
Can be shared and accessed across the organization
Can be shared with all, or specific users
‘View’-level security
Environments offer additional control
For example: audience-targeted apps (users or managers)

24. Notes: Connections and Gateways
Connections: Work with services and data
LOTS of connection types available
Gateways: Allow access to on-prem data (SQL for now) us/blog/connect-to-your-on-premises-data- sources-using-on-premises-data-gateway-from- powerapps/
More on gateways later…

25. Food for Thought: Data Options
Continue using SharePoint lists and sites
Move data to SQL
Use the Common Data Service

26. Disclaimers PowerApps will continue to change… rapidly
Stuff DOES change day to day
The rabbit hole is deeeeeeep…
Changes day to day, will get more stable but still have updates

27. PowerApps roadmap - highlights
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PowerApps roadmap - highlights
H2 Calendar 2017
Calendar 2018
Create and use embedded PowerApps as custom list forms in SharePoint Online
Utilize attachments, multi-select fields, and images in your SharePoint Online driven PowerApps
Easily embed PowerApps in SharePoint Online pages with web parts and within Power BI reports
Use the Rules explorer for easier expression authoring
Tenant-wide admin resource management, app usage analytics, and package export/import across environments
Easily connect to Azure App Services & APIM
Use server-side business logic for validation rules and easy defaulting
Create model-driven apps
Support for GDPR compliance
Government cloud deployment
SQL - Support for stored procs and views
Enhanced application lifecycle management with sandbox environments
General data protection regulation (EU privacy rules)
Roadmap is for general information purposes only and subject to change
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28. Additional Roadmap Updates
Custom forms: Aiming for First Release by end of NEXT WEEK
Flow launch panel now in First Release
Flow and PowerApps buttons in lists and libraries coming out of under ‘Preview features’ soon
Multi-value support and Taxonomy write support coming by end of year
Attachments are read-only for now, working on read-write early in 2018

29. Upcoming webinars
Webinar listing:
Nov. 9 - Getting Started: Office Graph Templates
Nov Getting Started: Using Connector Documentation
Nove Getting Started: PowerApps Community Opportunities

30. References and Resources
Some slide content from my Ignite session - Thanks to Microsoft’s Cathy Dew
My Blog