{"id":2542,"date":"2019-03-13T20:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:15:28","slug":"how-to-use-powerapps-to-go-mobile-with-sharepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-to-use-powerapps-to-go-mobile-with-sharepoint","title":{"rendered":"How to Use PowerApps to Go Mobile with SharePoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-to-use-powerapps-to-go-mobile-with-sharepoint\/#PowerApps_and_SharePoint_Development_Make_a_Powerful_Future\" title=\"PowerApps and SharePoint Development Make a Powerful Future\">PowerApps and SharePoint Development Make a Powerful Future<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-to-use-powerapps-to-go-mobile-with-sharepoint\/#How_PowerApps_Work\" title=\"How PowerApps Work?\">How PowerApps Work?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-to-use-powerapps-to-go-mobile-with-sharepoint\/#Scenarios_that_Show_the_Kind_of_Things_PowerApps_Help_do_with_SharePoint_for_Mobile_Apps\" title=\"Scenarios that Show the Kind of Things PowerApps Help do with SharePoint for Mobile Apps:\">Scenarios that Show the Kind of Things PowerApps Help do with SharePoint for Mobile Apps:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mobile devices have become a powerful means of communication nowadays and business organizations provide their workers with easy access to various information and applications that they need to do their jobs. Building such an app for mobile device has become easier nowadays and as a result more and more business scenarios are integrating different applications together in their business processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many organizations want to get the most of their SharePoint investments by offering their employees mobile access to important content and documents that are stored in SharePoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"PowerApps_and_SharePoint_Development_Make_a_Powerful_Future\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>PowerApps and SharePoint Development Make a Powerful Future<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Using SharePoint, we can now create mobile applications that help to enhance the productivity of the work. A broad range of applications can be developed by using PowerApps that is a Software as a Service platform designed to allow you to quickly create highly functioning apps that can deploy to the web or a mobile device without much work.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 40px auto; border: 2px solid #065beb; padding: 20px 25px; border-radius: 6px; background: 000000;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 62%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Are You Looking for SharePoint Migration and Upgrade?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 36%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"padding: 10px 22px; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; cursor: pointer; color: #ffffff; background-color: #065beb; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; display: block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sharepoint-migration-and-upgradation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call us today!<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since you can deploy them by simply giving someone the URL of your published app, they are just easier to update.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_PowerApps_Work\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>How PowerApps Work?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">PowerApps is a cloud only solutions with iOS and Windows store app and a browser enabled web application. It allows you to connect to on-premises content, especially SharePoint on the long run. It can be split into two distinct solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 18pt;\">&#8220;What is important is that\u00a0PowerApps don\u2019t require you to be a developer in order to use it.\u00a0 It can be used by anyone. All you need to do is to connect to your data and create the mobile app for it.\u00a0 PowerApps also allows you to create the Logic flows and Workflows.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">PowerApps is a great tool that helps you to make your SharePoint experience better in many ways. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/dedicated-sharepoint-developer\/\">SharePoint Developers<\/a><\/span> or the users have the option to either customize the forms for a SharePoint list or create a standalone mobile app for working with the SharePoint data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With PowerApps, you can now use the power of the user\u2019s mobile device. You will have an easy access to the camera, acceleration, the compass, location signals, all from within your app.\u00a0 This will also open up a whole world of possibilities for creating SharePoint mobile apps and get your work done.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Did you know:<\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/sharepoint-online-gets-new-branding-capabilities-a-look-at-the-features\"> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SharePoint Online Gets New Branding Capabilities: A Look at The Features<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The touch functionality is automatic in PowerApps and there is nothing extra to code, when it is all about <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/mobile-apps\/\">building your mobile application<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scenarios_that_Show_the_Kind_of_Things_PowerApps_Help_do_with_SharePoint_for_Mobile_Apps\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 16pt;\">Scenarios that Show the Kind of Things PowerApps Help do with SharePoint for Mobile Apps:<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Look for Specific Information on the Go:<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Let\u2019s consider that you have a huge set of financial data in Excel and you need to offer a targeted mobile experience that can highlight a few important pieces of information during travel. This will be possible by using PowerApps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sharepoint-consultation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2548 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Office-365-Consultation.jpg\" alt=\"Office 365 Consultation\" width=\"823\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Office-365-Consultation.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Office-365-Consultation-300x36.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Office-365-Consultation-768x93.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Office-365-Consultation-560x68.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is all about crafting the best experience for the mobile and the cloud by allowing you to easily access the information that you need for your business process while travelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Storing Information Inside the SharePoint List: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For years, business all over in India, the UK and various other places have taken advantage of the capabilities of SharePoint Lists to make it easy to share, define and extend the data and also to store the list of images for product device inventory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With PowerApps, you can now create the iOS, Windows and Android application that offers a seamless mobile experience customized to how you want to view the images, add new photos, update the data on the go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/dedicated-sharepoint-developer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Want-to-Hire-SharePoint-Developers.jpg\" alt=\"Hire SharePoint Developers\" width=\"823\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Want-to-Hire-SharePoint-Developers.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Want-to-Hire-SharePoint-Developers-300x36.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Want-to-Hire-SharePoint-Developers-768x93.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Want-to-Hire-SharePoint-Developers-560x68.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thus, to conclude, PowerApps allows you to create mobile apps that can address the employee demands and let them fix simple problems themselves, while allowing professional developers to focus on some really big challenging issues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile devices have become a powerful means of communication nowadays and business organizations provide their workers with easy access to various information and applications that they need to do their jobs. 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