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Copper Contributor

Dec 03, 2021

Programming language Power Apps

I know HTML 5 and CSS and some JavaScript but I don't know how to apply this knowledge to Power Apps. What computer language do I need to know to use power apps?

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ganeshsanap

MVP

Dec 04, 2021

David1750 Power apps uses Power Fx, the low-code language that can be used across Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language.

Power apps uses excel-like formulas/functions. So, if you know basics of excel formulas, you can easily learn the Power apps formulas. Check below documentations for more information:

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David1750

Copper Contributor

Dec 04, 2021

Thanks for the info. I'm looking at other solution because I need to build a relational data base with automation and other features like a global search function. I'm not sure Power Apps can do this, but I will look further into Power Fx.

RobElliott
Silver Contributor
Dec 05, 2021
David1750 for the database sidwe of things, to keep things in the Microsoft world and make the data easily available in Power Apps, Power Automate etc, have a look at Microsoft's dataverse.

Rob
Los Gallardos
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- David1750
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 05, 2021
  Thanks Rob,
  
  It looks like Dataverse seems like a replacement for Access. Unfortunately, I don't have an IT/Software engineer at my disposal so, I won't be able to use this tool. I am going with another solution. It's DOM based platform build on modern HTML 5 & JavaScript, which Microsoft tech is still lagging in -MS not quite ready for modern cloud computing apps.