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

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Refresh the data source

Refresh the data source

- [Instructor] A couple of important things that I want to point out to you before we move on. Thing number one. Let's go back to our Excel workbook for a minute here, and take a quick look. And you'll notice that to our information we now have this additional column here with these funny numbers in it, PowerApps, PowerAppsID. What is this? Well, this is the unique identifying link between your information in Excel and your app in Power Apps. When you use the data to create an app in Power Apps, it will assign these unique ID numbers. Do not change this information. This is very important. If you do, you will mess up the connection between your data and your app. So, very, very important. Don't do that. Other things about changing things on the workbook in general. If you were to go in and change a column title or add a field, or anything like that into your workbook, it will not automatically be reflected in…

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