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

[Jim Lawrence]

A very interesting concept. It is the same as traditional with data and properties. With relationships and methods are bound to various display models. ie. MS spreadsheets

What is most interesting it the ease at which data can be moved and managed. Will there be a method of programming all this manipulation? Will there be free-form display methods for these entities? From what sources will data be accessible? Is that limited or will it also be free-form?

The best way I can visualize this application is as a highly scalable MS Access using a juju BE to manage data resources. That would not be a bad mashup. 

Of course the next question would be to this applications availability: Is it tightly proprietary and does it only function within a strict MS environment? Or is its to be a universal application?

Jim  

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From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
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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:
>
>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 >:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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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