From the course: Power Apps: Building Data-Driven Apps

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Connect Power Apps to data

Connect Power Apps to data

- [Instructor] Now that you've got a data source created and loaded, you need to connect PowerApps to that data. Starting from your Office 365 home page, click the PowerApps icon. You might have to click show all apps if it's not a visible, and if you don't see it at all, once again, you'll need to talk to your admin before you can go any further, but on the PowerApps homepage, we'll look down at the start from data section. Now since we're working off an Excel workbook, I'm going to click start from Excel, but notice that there are other options available. It's a little beyond the scope of this course, but you can use PowerApps in conjunction with SharePoint, SQL, or other external data sources. If you want more information on that, check out the course Learning Microsoft PowerApps for a good overview. And one little note, before you do this, make sure that your Excel workbook is closed because if it's open, while you're…

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