Finding your feet with Microsoft PowerApps development – Part 02

In the last post, we had a quick introduction to PowerApps. We also demonstrated how to quickly create your first app.

In this post, we’ll take a look at the app you created and how it can be used to view or edit existing data and create new items in our data source.

A look at the app

From top to bottom, the default home screen is in this app is made up of three elements:

1. Quick action bar
2. Search bar
3. Gallery of items

Quick action bar

From left to right, the icons in the quick action bar allow a user to:

1. Refresh the app gallery to show new data
2. Change the order in which items are displayed (ascending or descending)
3. Create a new item

We’ll get back to the quick action bar later.

Search bar

The search box isn’t so much of a search option, it’s a filter. In the image below, you’ll see that, after typing ‘fi’, only two of the five items in the gallery still show.

Gallery

The gallery (shown above) is a view of items from our SharePoint list and, by default this gallery shows particular details about each item, e.g., title, name and department.

Clicking on an item in a gallery will take you to a screen that shows more information about the item selected.