Customize your Power Apps with SharePoint
When customizing Power Apps with SharePoint, you can choose from different column types. These column types represent various types of data that you can store in SharePoint, such as text, numbers, dates, choice options, attachments, and more. Each column type has a specific purpose and format to help organize and store information effectively.
In Power Apps, different controls correspond to SharePoint column types. Controls are the building blocks of an app’s user interface. For example, you can use a text input control in Power Apps to correspond with a text column in SharePoint, a date-picker control for a date column, a dropdown control for a choice column, and so on. These controls allow users to display and interact with data stored in SharePoint columns.
Power Apps provides seamless integration for editing and saving data from SharePoint. Forms in Power Apps allow users to edit and update SharePoint data. Forms provide a user-friendly interface for viewing and modifying individual records. Forms can be designed to include various controls, such as text inputs, dropdown menus, date pickers, and buttons, so users can modify data stored in SharePoint.
Galleries in Power Apps work well with SharePoint data. You can use galleries to display multiple records from SharePoint in a list-like format. You can customize the layout and appearance of a gallery to show specific columns from SharePoint. For example, you can display a gallery with each item showing the title, description, and image from SharePoint columns. Users can interact with the gallery to view, select, and navigate through the records.
By using these column types, controls, galleries, and forms, customized Power Apps applications can be created that integrate with SharePoint. As a result, users can work effectively with SharePoint data, provide a user-friendly interface for editing and saving information, and display records in a clear format.
The following video provides a preview walkthrough of how to create a custom form in a SharePoint site with Power Apps and how to create a standalone app based on an existing SharePoint list. We'll walk through this together in the next unit!