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- Let's create a new PowerApp,
right here from the SharePoint online list.
Notice that at the top, in the command bar,
we can click 'PowerApps' and choose 'Create an app'.
Build a custom app based on
your SharePoint list using PowerApps.
We are going to name our app to get started,
and we're going to simply call this 'West Inventory'.
And click 'Create'.
This will take a couple moments
to build my app.
Notice that what has opened
is the web version of PowerApps studio,
which is all displayed in the second tab here in my browser.
The app is being saved to my PowerApps collection,
and here is the first screen of my PowerApp, this is great.
A quick tour to help us get started.
We'll take this tour because it's a quick way to be able
to understand how this interface works for the studio.
First, on the left, we have thumbnails of the screens,
and when we create a new PowerApp,
by default, we get three separate screens.
We get a screen that's used for browsing,
we see that one here.
We get a screen that's detail for one item.
And then we get a screen that you can use
to create new items or to edit existing items,
because the browse screen is really a read-only screen.
In addition to the thumbnails,
we have this design workspace, the area in front of us,
where we're going to create a form just like it will look
when it's being used on a mobile device.
We have property drop-down menus
that allow us to modify controls.
And a formula bar.
In this case, the formula bar is actually showing us
the value of a color,
but we can use other formulas that are PowerApps formulas,
similar to formulas that we would see in Excel.
Other features of this interface include
a menu at the top that has tabs.
On the right hand side, we're seeing details
for the selected screen.
These are the different options that we could use
to layout this screen.
And we have advanced options actions.
At the bottom, a zoom slider.
That's kind of nice.
And the ability to click fit to window.
So after we've zoomed,
if we are looking at a high level of detail,
the quick way back is simply to fit to window, once again.
If we'd like to preview the app,
we have a couple of different choices.
First, there's a preview button here
that will show us how this app will look in a browser,
which is similar to how it will look on a mobile device.
Remember that I said that we get three different screens,
this is our browse screen.
This is our detail screen.
And if we wish to edit or create,
that's what this screen looks like.
So there's the edit version of it.
And if we're in our browse screen and we click plus
the empty version of that same screen, so three screens.
And this is a preview,
and to get out of the preview, simply click the X
and we'll be back in the PowerApps studio.
But, we also can launch that app from here
because this is where we created it from.
Click 'Open'.
The first time you do this,
it will take a little bit longer to load.
And here comes our PowerApp connecting to our data.
Looks exactly the same,
browse screen, detail screen,
new and edit screen.
This PowerApp is now available.
Here, essentially as a view,
if I'd like to work rather than with the list view
with the app,
click 'Open',
and I'm taken to web.PowerApps.com,
so that I can view and use this app.
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