Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps

Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps: App users can only navigate through the navigation options provided by an app developer, and this module is designed to help you build a good navigation experience for your canvas app.

In this module, you will:

• Understand how navigation works in a canvas app
• Use the Navigate and Back functions
• Understand the different ways these functions can be invoked

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of how to create a Power Apps canvas app and some experience working with controls in Power Apps is helpful but not required.

Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps: In Power Apps, because most apps have multiple screens, it’s essential that you understand how to implement the Navigate function in your app. The Navigate function allows users to move or navigate from screen to screen in an app. For example, if you create an app with three screens and you want to give users a way to navigate to another screen, set the OnSelect property of a Button control to.

Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your business data stored either in the underlying data platform (Common Data Service) or in various online and on-premises data sources (SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on).

Apps built using Power Apps provide rich business logic and workflow capabilities to transform your manual business processes to digital, automated processes. Further, apps built using Power Apps have a responsive design, and can run seamlessly in browser or on mobile devices (phone or tablet). Power Apps “democratizes” the custom business app building experience by enabling users to build feature-rich, custom business apps without writing code.

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