[dba-Tech] Looking for a web based app that does these things

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Shamil

True. I had the same thought that you could establish an Office365 "group" for the purpose of hosting one or more specific apps. It should be quite easy and - as usual - easily scalable up or down.

And yes, I did study those links - that's also what I meant with the "powerful features" of PowerApps which I haven't seen elsewhere. It certainly opens up for some scenarios that otherwise will require a vast amount of coding and integration knowledge.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
Sendt: 5. september 2016 21:25:40
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech]  Looking for a web based app that does these things

Hi Gustav --

Yes, it's "corporate" thing. And set of .json files constituting a PowerApp package should be possible to "play-back" on any device.

And "corporation" AFAIU (please correct me if I'm wrong) could be even an non-formal(?) group of users sharing an Office 365 subscription?
And this thing seems to be also a "disrupting tool" for App Store concept for the business applications? - They (MS) seems to be quite right about the fact that distributing business applications via App Stores is real PITA especially for the nowadays "agile" way of business applications development when releases are happening very often sometimes even a few times a day...

Have you looked and entities and Common Data Model-related PowerApps tutorials starting from this one

"Understanding entities in the Microsoft Common Data Model"
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/data-platform-intro/  ?

and

completing with this one

"Open entity data in Excel"
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/data-platform-interactive-excel/

?

They seems to be teaching Power Users about the entity-relationship model concepts and applications and demonstrate how (easily) real PowerApps entities instances' data can be viewed and manipulated using MS Excel worksheets.

-- Shamil

>Monday, September  5, 2016 9:39 PM +03:00 from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>
>Hi Shamil
>
>So it is totally a corporate thing. Oh well.
>
>No, I didn't realise such app is "just a bunch" of json files. Interesting.
>
>/gustav
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>Fra: dba-Tech < dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > på vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru >
>Sendt: 4. september 2016 17:19:27
>Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Emne: Re: [dba-Tech]  Looking for a web based app that does these things
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>Hi Gustav --
>
>I was wrong with my supposition. It looks like public access to PowerApps isn't planned at all and is contradicting the main purpose/audience of PowerApps. Here is the video:  http://tinyurl.com/z9lyp2p ('Why Power Apps? with Bill Staples").
>
>BTW, have you tried to investigate what a PowerApp file is? - it' a zip file with a set of PowerApp meta-files:
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>Entities.json
>Header.json
>MacroTable.json
>Properties.json
>PublishInfo.json
>Themes.json
>-- Shamil
>
>>Saturday, September  3, 2016 3:58 PM +03:00 from Gustav Brock < gustav at cactus.dk >:
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>>Hi Shamil
>>
>>Yes, it is more or less another approach to "visual programming". I do recall ObjectVision which was very close to this concept, though I never found a serious use for it.
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>>Why do you think the missing public access to PowerApps is a temporary limitation? I haven't seen any note on this. But if removed, it will certainly raise the value of these apps.
>>
>>/gustav
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