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What are Power Apps for Office 365?

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Office 365 is a cloud-based platform that collaborates all Office applications and other products services that users could subscribe to based on their requirements. Its users could be enabled to access emails, contacts, calendars, and other office apps such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote over the internet.

Using their Office 365 plans, they could install the latest versions of Office applications on all devices like their PCs, Tablets, Phones, and iPad. 

Office 365 includes SharePoint Online that would allow users to create, share and manage their data, users, site pages, and other resources. Besides, it would provide customized enterprise search capability; hence it would be easier to find contents in electronic form across any business or organization.

Microsoft Power Apps is a low-code development platform for building digitalized business applications. With it, you could deliver digitalized business applications.

When you have Office 365, you could have a better collaboration since it brings Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint to the cloud, and you could use Power Apps, which comes in it. 

What are the features you can use in Power Apps in Office 365?

  • You could customize the SharePoint forms
  • Your mobile application is connected to Office 365
  • Be able to use a dedicated application with custom forms
  • Enables you to work on complex applications with separated data structure on CDS

What are the Power Apps ready to use in Office 365?

Applications are ready to use, and you could immediately work with the applications and extend based on your needs by setting up the Power Apps applications based on available templates that are recommended as the first step in learning this technology.

Power Apps is connected with code development. It is low-code development but will require the learning of some basic developer skills.

To start the work with Power Apps, open site: https://make.powerapps.com/  

Here are the Power Apps you could use in Office 365

Training materials for Power Apps include Power Apps template.

It’s a very interesting app to get started with Power Apps. You’ll learn the ins and outs of Power Apps if you’re using it with Office 365. Get a headstart on how you could make your first customized template. This app would show you how you’ll be able to develop  5 scenarios in using Power Apps with People picker, Planner, Outlook, OneNote, and generation of Pop up.

You’ll have Power Apps Training for Office and  Power Apps Training app, and both apps would help you be familiarized with the Power Apps development platform.

Another Power App is Book a Room with Power Apps template, which is a very simple yet very helpful application that would allow you to book rooms available in Outlook and Exchange and assign them to You or your meetings in the calendar. The Power App application is ready to use in mobile phone or tablet mode.

A booking room application for Office 36 could be used as the Book a room Power App to help users in booking available meeting rooms.

Org Browser - Power Apps template

Another simple but extremely useful Power Apps application that helps to search through company organization structure. An ideal application for the mobile phone to easily find contact information to the colleague is the Org browser. 

The Organization structure browser Power App would make you quickly find on your mobile device contact information to your colleagues.

Another application that would provide you to digitalize the most popular business process in the organizations like holiday requesting is the Leave request app.

Applications in Power Apps would enable you to build a simple holiday requesting and approval process. Data managed in the process could be stored in the OneDrive in the Excel file.

Be able to manage the holidays for your team or organization via this simple Power Apps application that would manage the whole process for you. The data managed in the app is saved into an Excel file in the OneDrive account.

Also, there is an application that’s highly-recommended since it’s a nice app for task management connected with the onboarding process of your new employees. You could customize the app that would navigate new colleagues through the first hours in the company and get them the information about the organization.

You could build a nice and smooth onboarding process for new employees using the Power Apps ready-to-use template.

There are also new screen templates available in Preview that would allow you to insert pre-built screens directly within PowerApps Studio. It’s even quicker and easier than ever to add Office 365 capabilities to your custom apps. To do it, just insert one of these new screens, and all the required components, data sources, and expressions would be added for you.

Power Apps is truly a game-changer as you could customize your screens further to take full advantage of Microsoft Graph and the 200+ connectors available in PowerApps.

These screens are fully themeable and are meant to work together. For example, add the People screen, the Email screen, and the Meeting screen. People you selected would automatically populate across all 3 screens. 

Here are the new screens for your Power Apps in Office 365.

  • Email – You could add this screen anywhere in your app to be able to send an email. 
  • People – With it, you could search for users in your organization. It would automatically add the Office 365 Users connection populate to the MyPeople gallery with selected users.
  • Meeting – You could quickly send a meeting invite via Outlook. All the suggested meeting times are automatically populated hence streamlining the process.
  • Calendar –See your schedule at a glance for any given date. Be able to use the components from this screen to add custom calendar functionality to your app. 
  • Tutorial – This could be used as the first screen in your app to guide users and serves as a tutorial on how to use your app. 
  • Success – This simple screen could be used anywhere you want to add confirmation for a user action. It would mark the success after submitting a form or sending a meeting invite. 

After Thoughts

Microsoft Power Apps for Office 365 is a great solution to build your business applications. There are a lot more Power Apps you could use in Office 365. Each day would make you discover and explore more about Power Apps.

As new technologies emerge, there are Power Apps that would help you handle the evolution of the changing time. It’s here to help you build and use custom business apps that would connect to your data and would work across the web and mobile but without the long time factor and the cost of custom software development.


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