- This is a custom list that we created in Sales,
and what we'd like our salespeople to be able to do
and other folks, as well, who are out in the field,
is collect information about installs that were done
that we didn't do.
This gives us more information about trends
on solar and wind, and other alternative energy in our area.
And the amount of business that's being done by
some new firms that are moving in.
So I'm going to create a mobile application
by choosing PowerApps and then
choosing to create an app.
This is going to build a custom app
based on our SharePoint list using PowerApps.
And I'm going to name this, and this is going to be,
I'm going to name this Competitor installs,
and click create.
What we're creating is a mobile first app
that can run on a phone, on a tablet,
other mobile devices, but can also run in a browser.
So this is a pretty slick piece of functionality
that we get when we're working with
applications like lists, including some of
the built in list types that are included in
SharePoint team sites.
I've used PowerApps previously,
and you'll find several PowerApps courses
in the online training library if this is
something that's new to you.
We're just going to spend a little bit of time
seeing how we could leverage this capability
so that we could build out a mobile application
based on the data
and fields of the app
that we just dropped into our Sales site.
PowerApps is going to create a small
three screen application for us
in a very short period of time.
And here it is.
We can get a preview of the app,
all kinds of other things,
but I'm going to skip that,
I want to simply show you what it is we have.
So we have a screen where we can look at different items.
Now we don't actually have any data here
in our list, because we didn't put any in yet.
That's okay.
Then we have a detail screen where we can
actually enter data.
So, I can
click edit, and edit items here,
and I can enter information.
So we have a detail screen and then,
by clicking this pencil,
I'm going to end up on the edit screen.
I'm going to simply click here and
enter a new piece of information
and the title is,
it's the Saline Microbrewery, and we could enter
an address and a city and a state,
notice it has our default,
and this is actually in Arizona,
and the install type is Commercial Wind
that's been put in there,
and our competitor is
Grady Turbines.
Notice this is how this app would work,
someone could click here to attach a file
and it will actually allow us to attach a file,
maybe we have a picture of this
that we've already saved to our computer.
I don't, but I'm going to pretend like one of these is.
I'll just drop this in so we have this file.
I'm going to say, okay, I'm all done,
submit this item,
and this is how this application
would look, not just in a browser,
but also how it would look
if I were
working on my mobile device.
I can add another screen to this to create a cover screen,
but I have a nice little application here
that will allow me to enter an item,
go look at its details, edit it if I wish,
to back out of editing,
and here, I have the ability to search.
So if I begin looking for microbrewery,
for example, I can search,
I can sort the list,
I can create a new item.
I like how this works.
There is much more that I can do with this application,
but I actually have a functional app
that I can use right now for
competitor installs, I can distribute this to other users,
and again, if you'd like to know more
about how to create and use PowerApps with
your team sites, then look at the PowerApps courses
in the LinkedIn Learning Training Library.
I'm going to return now,
and from the point of view
of SharePoint, this PowerApp is created as a view.
So, Competitor Installs is now a view.
If I go back to all items,
you'll find that the item I added when I was
working in PowerApps ends up up here.
That's kind of cool, but more than that,
I can actually embed this PowerApp,
this series of forms, in my site.